Trebitz is a village and a former municipality in

Wittenberg Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is the fourth-largest town in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. It is situated on the River Elbe, north of Leipzig and south-west of the reunified German ...

district 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 July 2009, it is part of the town

Bad Schmiedeberg Bad Schmiedeberg () is a small town in the Wittenberg (district), district of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It lies within the Düben Heath Nature Park. History The town was first mentioned in 1206 as ''Smedeberg''. In 1350, it was grant ...

Geography and transportation

Trebitz lies about southeast of

and about from Pretzsch, on the north edge of the

Düben Heath The Düben Heath () is a landscape in Germany in eastern Saxony-Anhalt and northern Saxony, between the rivers Elbe and the Mulde, on the northern edge of the Leipzig Bay. It is bounded in the west by the town of Dessau, in the north by the Elb ...

. Federal Highway (''Bundesstraße'') B 187 and the

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

line between Wittenberg and

Torgau Torgau () is a town on the banks of the Elbe in northwestern Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district Nordsachsen. Outside Germany, the town is best known as where on 25 April 1945, the United States and Soviet Armies first met near ...

run through the municipality.

Subdivisions

Besides Trebitz itself, the subdivisions of the municipality are Bösewig, Kleinzerbst and Österitz.

Sport

The local MC Trebitz runs a

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track.

External links

Düben Heath Nature Park
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Bad Schmiedeberg {{Wittenberg-geo-stub