Zörbig () is a town 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 ...

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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. It is situated approximately 15 km west of

Bitterfeld Bitterfeld () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2007 it has been part of the town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. It is situated approximately 25 km south of Dessau, and 30 km northeast of Hall ...

, and 20 km northeast of

Halle (Saale) Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (), is the second largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East Berlin, East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chem ...

. Zörbig is well known for its

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made from

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Geography

The town Zörbig consists of the following ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Zörbig
§ 15, 17 June 2021. *Cösitz *Göttnitz *Großzöberitz *Löberitz *Quetzdölsdorf *Salzfurtkapelle *

Schortewitz Schortewitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 March 2009, it is part of the town Zörbig Zörbig () is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt, ...

*Schrenz *Spören *Stumsdorf *Zörbig

People

Thomas Selle Thomas Selle (23 March 1599 – 2 July 1663) was a seventeenth-century German baroque composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are compo ...

(1599–1663), composer and church musician *

Johann Jacob Reiske Johann Jakob Reiske (Latin: ''Johannes Jacobus Reiskius''; 25 December 1716 – 14 August 1774) was a German scholar and physician. He was a pioneer in the fields of Arabic and Byzantine philology as well as Numismatics, Islamic numismatics. Biog ...

(1716–1774), Graezist, Arabist and Byzantinist * August Gottlieb Richter (1742–1812), surgeon * Carl Marx (1911–1991), painter, pupil at the Bauhaus Dessau 1931-33

References

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