Nedlitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of

Anhalt-Bitterfeld Anhalt-Bitterfeld is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Its capital is Köthen (Anhalt). Its area is . History This district was established by merging the former districts of Bitterfeld, Köthen and a large part of Anhalt-Zerbst as part ...

, 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 ...

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

Zerbst Zerbst () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until an administrative reform in 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the former Anhalt-Zerbst district. Geography Zerbst is sit ...

.Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2010

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History

The village was founded near the northern wells of the river Nuthe at the heights of the

Fläming Heath The Fläming Heath () is a region and hill chain that reaches over 100 km from the Elbe river to the Dahme River in the German states Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. Its highest elevation is the Hagelberg (201 m). The name Fläming originates ...

s. The border of today's Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt runs right next the area that is mostly covered by woods around the village center. Nedlitz is situated about 15 km to the northeast of the town Zerbst. It has been part of

Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was a Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, principality of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the House of Ascania, with its residence at Zerbst in present-day Saxony-Anhalt. It emerged as a subdivision of the Principality of Anhalt from 1 ...

throughout early history. The principality was divided into three parts in 1796 where the village happened to be part of the northeastern

Anhalt-Dessau Anhalt-Dessau was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire and later a duchy of the German Confederation. Ruled by the House of Ascania, it was created in 1396 following the partition of the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, and finally merged into th ...

(later

Anhalt-Zerbst Anhalt-Zerbst was a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts Potsdam-Mittelmark (Brandenburg) and Wittenberg, the city of Dessau and the districts of Köthen, Schönebeck and Jerichower Lan ...

) district. On 1 July 1950 the nearby village of Hagendorf was amamgalmated into Nedlitz. The incorporated village area was independent until 2009 when it was added to the town management of Zerbst. The last census showed the village to have an area of 33.2 km² with 641 inhabitants (31 December 2008).

Gallery

File:Nedlitz church.JPG, Church of Nedlitz File:Nedlitz,Hagendorf,Findling,Gedenkstein.jpg, erratic boulder, with a memorial for WW1 deaths File:BfNedlitzEG.jpg, old train station of Nedlitz

References

Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Zerbst {{AnhaltBitterfeld-geo-stub