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50-668: The S-Bahn Mittelelbe ("Central Elbe S-Bahn ", called the S-Bahn Magdeburg until 2014) is part of the public transport network of the metropolitan area of Magdeburg , the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt . The S-Bahn is operated by the Elbe Saale Bahn , a subsidiary of DB Regio Südost, on behalf of the Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt ("public transport service of Saxony-Anhalt", a state government agency that plans, manages and funds public transport services in

100-489: A convent here about 937 and was later buried in the cathedral. He granted the abbey the right to income from various tithes and to corvée labour from the surrounding countryside. The Archbishopric of Magdeburg was founded in 968 at the synod of Ravenna ; Adalbert of Magdeburg was consecrated as its first archbishop. The archbishopric under Adalbert included the bishoprics of Havelberg , Brandenburg , Merseburg , Meissen and Naumburg-Zeitz . The archbishops played

150-541: A height of 104 m (341.21 ft), making it the tallest church building of eastern Germany. It is notable for its beautiful and unique sculptures, especially the "Twelve Virgins" at the Northern Gate, the depictions of Otto I the Great and his wife Editha as well as the statues of St Maurice and St Catherine . The predecessor of the cathedral was a church built in 937 within an abbey, called St. Maurice. Emperor Otto I

200-600: A notable member of the Hanseatic League . One of the most notable people from the city was Otto von Guericke , famous for his experiments with the Magdeburg hemispheres . Magdeburg has experienced three major devastations in its history. In 1207 the first catastrophe struck the city, with a fire burning down large parts of the city, including the Ottonian cathedral . The Catholic League sacked Magdeburg in 1631, resulting in

250-572: A prominent role in the German colonisation of the Slavic lands east of the Elbe river. In 1035 Magdeburg received a patent giving the city the right to hold trade exhibitions and conventions. This formed the basis of German town law to become known as the Magdeburg rights . These laws were adopted and modified throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Visitors from many countries began to trade with Magdeburg. The town

300-618: A state of emergency and said they expected the Elbe river to rise higher than in 2002. In Magdeburg, with water levels of five metres (16 ft) above normal, about 23,000 residents had to leave their homes on 9 June. Intel will build its largest plant in Europe in the south of the city by 2027. Magdeburg is one of the major towns along the Elbe Cycle Route (Elberadweg). Its area is 201.03 km (77.62 sq mi). The city of Magdeburg

350-484: Is twinned with: DBAG Class 425 It is also produced in HO scale by a few model railway manufacturers. It is a high-powered, light-weight vehicle with high acceleration for short- and medium-distance services with frequent stops. The aluminium superstructure was built as flat as possible, both to minimize drag and to ease automated cleaning. The acceleration is achieved by distributing traction motors among eight of

400-412: Is divided into 40 Stadtteile (districts). Three of these, the former municipalities Beyendorf-Sohlen, Pechau and Randau-Calenberge, have a special status as Ortschaften . The Stadtteile of Magdeburg are: Magdeburg has an oceanic climate ( Köppen : Cfb ; Trewartha : Dobk ) according to Köppen climate classification . The weather is damp and chilly in winters, with 71.7 days per year in which

450-506: Is more common in spring and summer than other times of the year, while hail exclusively occurs in spring and summer months. The Magdeburg weather station has recorded the following extreme values: As of 2021, Magdeburg has a population of about 237,000. Its population grew rapidly after the end of 19th century due to industrialization. In 1885, the population was 100,000, and doubled after only five years. Magdeburg reached its greatest population in 1940, at approximately 346,000. At that time

500-512: Is served only between early May and late October as it serves leisure traffic to the lake of the same name, which is located north of Magdeburg. There was an hourly connection between Schönebeck and Haldensleben in GDR times with an S-Bahn set shortened to one carriage and hauled by a DR class 110 or DR class 112 diesel locomotive. Passengers could travel on this train to Magdeburg-Rothensee on an S-Bahn fare. From 9 December 2007 until 13 December 2014,

550-514: Is situated on Autobahn 2 and Autobahn 14 , and hence is at the connection point of Eastern Europe ( Berlin and beyond) with Western Europe , as well as the north and south of Germany. For the modern city, the most significant industries are: machine industry , healthcare industry , mechanical engineering , environmental technology , circular economy , logistics , culture industry , wood industry and information and communications technology . There are numerous cultural institutions in

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600-582: The Volkssturm and Hitler Youth , and surviving prisoners were sent on death marches towards the Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. Magdeburg was heavily bombed by British and American air forces during the Second World War. The RAF bombing raid on the night of 16 January 1945 destroyed much of the city centre. The death toll is estimated at 2,000–2,500. Near the end of World War II ,

650-553: The German state Saxony-Anhalt . The city is situated at the Elbe river. Otto I , the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg, was buried in the city's cathedral after his death. Magdeburg's version of German town law , known as Magdeburg rights , spread throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In the Late Middle Ages , Magdeburg was one of the largest and most prosperous German cities and

700-476: The German Democratic Republic . In 1990 Magdeburg became the capital of the new state of Saxony-Anhalt within reunified Germany. Huge parts of the city and its centre were also rebuilt in a modern style. Its economy is one of the fastest-growing in the former East German states. In 2005 Magdeburg celebrated its 1200th anniversary. The city was hit by 2013 European floods . Authorities declared

750-779: The Stadtfest , Christopher Street Day , Elbe in Flames , and the Europafest Magdeburg . The autumn fair (formerly men's fair) of Magdeburg goes back to Germany's oldest folk festival. The tradition dates back to September 1010, when the holy feast of the Theban Legion was celebrated in Magdeburg (then called Magathaburg). One of Magdeburg's most impressive buildings is the Lutheran Cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice with

800-519: The Thirty Years' War , by Albrecht von Wallenstein , a Protestant convert to Catholicism. However, in 1631, imperial troops under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly , stormed the city and massacred the inhabitants , killing about 20,000 and burning the city. After the war, a population of only 4,000 remained. Under the Peace of Westphalia (1648), Magdeburg was to be assigned to Brandenburg-Prussia after

850-555: The Fowler against the Magyars and Slavs . In 929 King Otto I granted the city to his English-born wife Edith as dower . Queen Edith loved the town and often resided there; at her death she was buried in the crypt of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maurice , later rebuilt as the cathedral. In 937, Magdeburg was the seat of a royal assembly. Otto I repeatedly visited Magdeburg, establishing

900-554: The Great was buried here beside his wife in 973. St. Maurice burnt to ashes in 1207. The exact location of that church remained unknown for a long time. The foundations were rediscovered in May 2003, revealing a building 80 m (262.47 ft) long and 41 m (134.51 ft) wide. The construction of the new church lasted 300 years. The cathedral of Saints Catherine and Maurice was the first Gothic church building in Germany. The building of

950-570: The Magdeburg S-Bahn in GDR times were green LOWA-E5 cars (central entrance cars). From 1990, single double-deck carriages were used, although in the early 1990s some four-part DB double-deck sets were also used. Class 425 sets are now used on line S1. In 2015, they were modernised and received new seats, folding tables, electrical outlets and an improved passenger information system. The ÖPNV-Plan des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt 2005 (public transport plan for

1000-607: The Napoleonic Wars, Magdeburg was made the capital of the new Prussian Province of Saxony . In 1912, the old fortress was dismantled, and in 1908, the municipality Rothensee became part of Magdeburg. During World War I , Polish leader Józef Piłsudski and his close associate Kazimierz Sosnkowski were imprisoned in the city by Germany in 1917–1918. During the Weimar Republic the Magdeburger Tageszeitung

1050-663: The S-Bahn Magdeburg also had multi-trip tickets, weekly tickets and monthly passes, but no day tickets (except the "Wochenend-Familien-Ticket": weekend family ticket) were offered. In addition, the S-Bahn fare was also offered on the Magdeburg-Neustadt–Magdeburg-Herrenkrug route. For commuters and frequent travellers in Magdeburg between the S-Bahn and the nearby region, there was also the parent MUM ( Magdeburg-Umland : Magdeburg surrounds) fare, which also covered

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1100-615: The S-Bahn until the establishment of the Magdeburger Regionalverkehrsverbund (Magdeburg Regional Transport, branded as marego ) on 12 December 2010 used a special S-Bahn fare structure modelled on the former DR S-Bahn fare structure. In contrast to these, a separate fare for the Magdeburg S-Bahn only was not introduced until 1 February 1994. There were separate S-Bahn fares earlier in the cities of Berlin , Dresden , Erfurt , Leipzig/Halle and Rostock . In contrast to Magdeburg, however, these were replaced much earlier by

1150-544: The S1 running between Schönebeck-Salzelmen and Zielitz Ort every 30 minutes on weekdays and hourly on the weekend. Due to the extension to the surrounding area, it was renamed from S-Bahn Magdeburg to the current name of S-Bahn Mittelelbe . The change in train class in Stendal was abolished at the timetable change on 13 December 2015, so that the trains now run to/from Wittenberge as S-Bahn services. The service between Zielitz and Stendal

1200-603: The S1 service operated only on Mondays to Fridays and only during the day except for a few trains; the stops were served by Regionalbahn services at the weekend. On 14 December 2014, the previous Regionalbahn service to/from Wittenberge, now to/from Stendal, was integrated into S-Bahn line 1, to end the parallel service by two different types of train service between Schönebeck-Salzelmen and Zielitz Ort. The trains changed their designated train class in Stendal station , but passengers did not need to change. This reverted after seven years to

1250-577: The archbishop, becoming nearly independent from him by the end of the 15th century. Around Easter 1497, the then twelve-year-old Martin Luther attended school in Magdeburg, where he was exposed to the teachings of the Brethren of the Common Life . In 1524, he was called to Magdeburg, where he preached and caused the city's defection from Roman Catholicism . The Protestant Reformation had quickly found adherents in

1300-435: The area served by Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (Magdeburge Transport Company, a municipal utility). The MUM fare, however, was not a true Transport Association fare structure because only periodic cards (but no single tickets) were offered. This meant that for single journeys in the Magdeburg region, a new ticket had to be used with each change from the S-Bahn to another form of public transport. The typical trains operated on

1350-588: The city of about 340,000 became capital of the Province of Magdeburg . Brabag 's Magdeburg/Rothensee plant that produced synthetic oil from lignite coal was a target of the Oil Campaign of World War II . The Gründerzeit suburbs north of the city, called the Nordfront, were destroyed as well as some of the city's main streets with its Baroque buildings. It was occupied by 9th US Army troops on 18 April 1945 and

1400-589: The city was poised to become a giant metropolis, but the events of WWII changed its future. After the war, in the East Germany era, Magdeburg recovered its industrial base to a degree, particularly the Machine industry , and became one of the important cities of East Germany. In 1991, when Magdeburg became the capital of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , its population was about 275,000. After the German Reunification ,

1450-647: The city, including the Theater Magdeburg and the Museum of Cultural History . The city is also the location of two universities , the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences . Founded by Charlemagne in 805 as Magadoburg (probably from Old High German magado for big , mighty and burg for fortress ), the town was fortified in 919 by King Henry

1500-644: The city, where Luther had been a schoolboy. Emperor Charles V repeatedly outlawed the unruly town, which had joined the League of Torgau and the Schmalkaldic League . As it had not accepted the Augsburg Interim decree (1548), the city, by the emperor's commands, was besieged (1550–1551) by Maurice, Elector of Saxony , but it retained its independence. The rule of the archbishop was replaced by that of various administrators belonging to Protestant dynasties. In

1550-562: The death of 25,000 non-combatants, the largest loss of the Thirty Years' War . During World War II the Allies bombed the city in 1945 and destroyed much of the city centre. Today, around 46% of the city consists of buildings from before 1950. After World War II, the city belonged to the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990. Since then, many new construction projects have been implemented and old buildings have been restored. Magdeburg celebrated its 1,200th anniversary in 2005. Magdeburg

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1600-460: The death of the administrator August of Saxe-Weissenfels , as the semi-autonomous Duchy of Magdeburg . This occurred in 1680. The city made an astonishingly quick recovery, due especially to the energy and dedication of its mayor Otto von Guericke , who was also a noted scientist. Just six years after the end of the terribly destructive war, Magdeburg was the scene of the famous scientific experiment known as The Magdeburg hemispheres by which

1650-548: The existence of vacuum - hitherto hotly debated - was empirically proven, with enormous implications for the later developments of physics. In the course of the Napoleonic Wars , the fortress surrendered to French troops in 1806. The city was annexed to the French-controlled Kingdom of Westphalia in the 1807 Treaty of Tilsit . King Jérôme appointed Count Heinrich von Blumenthal as mayor. In 1815, after

1700-536: The first football clubs in Germany. There is also the very successful handball team, SC Magdeburg . They won multiple times the Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) , DHB-Pokal , DHB-Supercup , EHF European League , EHF Champions League , EHF Men's Champions Trophy and the IHF Men's Super Globe . The discus was re-discovered in Magdeburg in the 1870s by Christian Georg Kohlrausch , a gymnastics teacher. Magdeburg

1750-606: The following years, Magdeburg gained a reputation as a stronghold of Protestantism and became the first major city to publish the writings of Martin Luther . In Magdeburg, Matthias Flacius and his companions wrote their anti-Catholic pamphlets and the Magdeburg Centuries , in which they argued that the Roman Catholic Church had become the kingdom of the Antichrist . In 1629 the city withstood its first siege during

1800-445: The minimum temperature is below the freezing point, and 15.6 days with maximum temperature below the 0 °C (32 °F) mark. Magdeburg is warm and relatively wet in summer and can sometimes become hot. Annually, 48.9 days have maximum temperature above 25 °C (77 °F), of which 12 days have daily maximum above 30 °C (86 °F). On average, there are 20.9 days with thunder and 0.8 days with hail , annually. Thunder

1850-641: The original concept superfluous. The connection to Zerbst has been rebranded as part of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland 2 network, which is operated by the Elbe-Saale-Bahn, a subsidiary of DB Regio . The basic framework for the future S-Bahn network would be lines S1 and RB40 (Brunswick – Magdeburg – Burg). Further connections to Langenweddingen (as a replacement for the RB service to Oschersleben ) and Haldensleben might also be integrated in due course. However,

1900-491: The planned operating concepts are for upgrades of the Magdeburg–Oschersleben–Halberstadt and Magdeburg–Haldensleben–Oebisfelde lines and the services would be operated permanently with diesel traction. A station called 'Stendal Hochschule' is set to open in 2022. Magdeburg Magdeburg ( German: [ˈmakdəbʊʁk] ; Low German: [ˈmaˑɪdebɔɐ̯x] ) is the capital of

1950-430: The population of Magdeburg declined due to some loss of industries, when many residents moved to former West Germany . Since 2011, the population has stabilized at around 240,000. The current mayor of Magdeburg is independent politician Simone Borris since 2022. The most recent mayoral election was held on 24 April 2022, with a runoff held on 8 May, and the results were as follows: The most recent city council election

2000-500: The ruin were used for the building of the cathedral. The presumed remains of the palace were excavated in the 1960s. Magdeburg has a proud history of sports teams. 1. FC Magdeburg currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga , the second division of German football. They are the only East German football club to have won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup . The now-defunct clubs SV Victoria 96 Magdeburg and Cricket Viktoria Magdeburg were among

2050-497: The state of Saxony-Anhalt 2005) includes scenarios that include the conversion of several RB services into S-Bahn services in 2010–2015 and in 2025. These plans for a regional S-Bahn network were mainly promoted by the Minister of Transport, Karl-Heinz Daehre. The closure of services on the line to Loburg and the implementation of other measures, which are also reflected in the relevant procedures for procuring transport services, has made

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2100-642: The state). The S-Bahn currently consists of one line between Schönebeck-Salzelmen, Magdeburg , Stendal and Wittenberge , using the Schönebeck–Güsten , Magdeburg–Leipzig and Magdeburg–Wittenberge lines. The Magdeburg S-Bahn was opened on 29 September 1974 as a 38 kilometre-long line, on the Zielitz–Magdeburg–Schönebeck-Salzelmen route, running north–south. The halts ( Haltepunkte ) of Schönebeck-Frohse, Schönebeck Süd and Zielitz Ort were opened after 1974. The halt of Barleber See

2150-592: The steeples was completed as late as 1520. While the cathedral was virtually the only building to survive the massacres of the Thirty Years' War, it suffered damage in World War II. It was soon rebuilt and completed in 1955. The square in front of the cathedral (also called the Neuer Markt , or "new marketplace") was occupied by an imperial palace ( Kaiserpfalz ), which was destroyed in the fire of 1207. The stones from

2200-442: The various transport associations or abolished in the case of Erfurt with the abandonment of the S-Bahn. The Magdeburg S-Bahn fares were a bit cheaper than the standard nationwide local transport fares. It was not based like the latter on the actual trip distance, but on a zone system. It consisted of three zones: The urban fare zone was always counted twice, so there were a total of four price levels. In addition to single tickets

2250-557: Was burnt down in 1188. In the 13th century, Magdeburg became a member of the Hanseatic League . With more than 20,000 inhabitants Magdeburg was one of the largest cities in the Holy Roman Empire . The town had active maritime commerce on the west (towards Flanders ), with the countries of the North Sea , and maintained traffic and communication with the interior (for example Braunschweig ). The citizens constantly struggled against

2300-503: Was extended by two additional train pairs in the morning (Mon–Fri), creating a 30-minute cycle. A few trains run between Stendal and Salzwedel as Regionalbahn 32, changing train class in Stendal. In addition, during the peak, a train runs as the S1X service from Magdeburg to Wittenberge and back; this does not stop at all stops so that it can connect with long-distance services. The Magdeburg S-Bahn and all regional trains operated parallel to

2350-426: Was founded in 1991. There are 30 direct study programs in five departments in Magdeburg and two departments in Stendal. The university has more than 130 professors and approximately 4,500 students at Magdeburg and 1,900 at Stendal. Magdeburg has a municipal theatre, Theater Magdeburg . Magdeburg is well known for its Christmas market , which is an attraction for 1.5 million visitors every year. Other events are

2400-434: Was held on 9 June 2024, and the results were as follows: The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (German: Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg) was founded in 1993 and is one of the newest universities in Germany. The university in Magdeburg has about 13,000 students in nine faculties. There are 11,700 papers published in international journals from this institute. The Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences

2450-644: Was left to the Red Army on 1 July 1945. Post-war the area was part of the Soviet Zone of Occupation and many of the remaining pre-World War II city buildings were destroyed, with only a few buildings near the cathedral and in the southern part of the old city being restored to their pre-war state. Before the reunification of Germany , many surviving Gründerzeit buildings were left uninhabited and, after years of degradation, waiting for demolition. From 1949 until German reunification on 3 October 1990, Magdeburg belonged to

2500-596: Was published as a local newspaper in Magdeburg. During World War II , Magdeburg was the location of 30 forced labour detachments of the Stalag XI-A prisoner-of-war camp for some 4,500 Allied POWs, a camp for Sinti and Romani people (see also Romani Holocaust ), and three subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp , in which mostly Jewish men and boys and Soviet, Polish and Jewish women were imprisoned. In April 1945, dozens of prisoners were massacred by

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