Mahlwinkel is a village and a former municipality in the

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. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality

Angern Angern is a municipality in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. On 1 January 2010 it absorbed the former municipalities Bertingen, Mahlwinkel and Wenddorf.paintball Paintball is a competitive sport, competitive team sport, team shooting sport in which players eliminate opponents from play by hitting them with spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules called Paintball equipment#Paintballs, paintballs that b ...

tournaments. The former

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is used as a huge playfield. About 2,000 players from all over the world visit Mahlwinkel twice a year.

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{{authority control Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Börde (district)