Morsleben is a village and a former municipality in the
Börde district
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...
in
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of
and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...
,
Germany
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. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality
Ingersleben
Ingersleben is a municipality in the Börde (district), Börde Districts of Germany, district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was formed on 1 January 2010 by the merger of the former municipalities Alleringersleben, Eimersleben, Morsleben and Osting ...
.
It is mostly known because of the
Repository for radioactive waste Morsleben nearby; the disposal of waste into the facility was ended in 1998.
References
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Börde (district)
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