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22-505: Salzwedel is situated at the river Jeetze in the northwestern part of the Altmark . It is located between Hamburg and Magdeburg . Distances from Uelzen are 44 km (27 mi) E, 12 km (7 mi) S of Lüchow , 41 km (25 mi) N of Gardelegen and 24 km (15 mi) W of Arendsee . In 1968 test drillings revealed a significant reservoir of natural gas near the city. The town Salzwedel consists of Salzwedel proper and

44-512: A descendant of the 9th Earl of Angus , and the 3rd Earl of Marischal , the latter in turn a direct descendant of King James I , of the House of Stuart , while her mother Anne Campbell was the daughter of John Campbell (both a grandson of Sir James Campbell and of Sir Robert Campbell, grandson of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl ), heir of the Ardkinglas branch of

66-518: A female subcamp in Salzwedel, capable of holding more than 1,000 female prisoners. Eventually more than 3,000 women were held there, both Jews and non-Jews. The guard staff at the camp included sixty SS men and women. One Aufseherin is known today by name, Lieselotte Darnstaedt, who was born in 1908. Darnstaedt also served at Ravensbrück before coming to Salzwedel. On April 14, 1945, the US Army liberated

88-557: A small garden and two floors with seven rooms, including the kitchen. Philosopher Leszek Kołakowski wrote of the Marx family's time in London: "[Karl] Marx was notoriously incapable of keeping accounts, and Jenny was a regular customer of the London pawnbrokers." In later years Jenny Marx suffered from internal pains, diagnosed as liver cancer . Following a family visit to France, she died in London at

110-759: Is located in the city of Salzwedel. Salzwedel is accessed by route 71 (north to south) and 248 (west to east). Access to the nearest autobahn is A39 which is 59 kilometres (37 miles) away in Wolfsburg , the A250 is 80.9 km (50.3 mi) away in Lüneburg , the A24 in Dreieck and the A241 is 81.4 km (50.6 mi) away. Salzwedel station is on the Stendal–Uelzen railway , part of

132-423: Is part of the town Kalbe . This Altmarkkreis Salzwedel location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jenny von Westphalen Johanna Bertha Julie Jenny Edle von Westphalen (12 February 1814 – 2 December 1881) was a German theatre critic and political activist. She married the philosopher and political economist Karl Marx in 1843. Jenny von Westphalen

154-561: Is the Mayor of Salzwedel since 2022. Since March 2016 Sabine Blümel is the Lord Mayor . Salzwedel's sites of interest include the historic part of town, encompassed by the historic city wall and town gates. The city also contains the birth house of Jenny von Westphalen , later the wife of Karl Marx . The delicacies of the town are Baumkuchen , Salzwedeler (Altmärker) Wedding-Soup and Tiegelbraten (mutton). The Nicolaus Gercken Family Foundation

176-683: The America Line ( Amerikalinie ), which was restored in the 1990s linking Berlin and Bremen . The line connects Stendal and Uelzen . Other stations are in Wittenberge near Arendsee and in Oebisfelde . Salzwedel is twinned with: Jeetze Jeetze ( German pronunciation: [ˈjeːt͡sə] ) is a village and a former municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany . Since 1 January 2010, it

198-511: The Clan Campbell , and part of the family of the Dukes of Argyll , who were for centuries Scotland's most powerful family. This would lead to an incident in 1854, when Karl Marx was arrested trying to pawn some of Jenny's Argyll silverware bearing the ducal insignia; the police suspected that a German refugee could not have acquired Argyll's property legally. Her mother Carolina Heubel (1780–1856)

220-522: The Communist Manifesto . The Prussian authorities had Karl Marx deported to France, but he soon left with his family for London. Around 1849–1850, the Marxes lived at Dean Street in London. In 1856 the Marxes moved to Grafton Terrace, near Hampstead Hill in London, thanks to the money given to Jenny by her mother when she died (1856). 9 Grafton Terrace, then at the outskirts of "civilised" London, had

242-627: The Diocese of Verden (till 1648). The city from 1247 began developing as a reestablishment from the old part of the town. In 1701 it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1713, the two towns Altstadt and Neustadt became one. Salzwedel became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony in 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars . In 1870 it received a railroad connection. The medieval part of the town remains

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264-607: The French political police expelled Karl Marx and the pregnant Jenny, and so the birth of her daughter Laura took place in Brussels . In 1848, the Brussels police detained Jenny and served an anti-immigrant deportation order. The Marx's returned to Paris and then moved to Cologne. Revolutionary upsurges took place in many European countries in 1848, including the German states. It was the time of

286-572: The Kreuznacher Pauluskirche (the Kreuznach church of Saint Paul), Bad Kreuznach . Following their marriage, Karl and Jenny Marx moved to Rue Vaneau in Paris and befriended the German poet Heinrich Heine , who lived at Rue Matignon. Karl and Jenny Marx had the following seven children, in chronological order: In 1844, Jenny travelled alone with her baby Jennychen to visit her mother. In 1845,

308-412: The Salzwedel women's subcamp, and also a men's camp nearby for male non-German political prisoners. They were shocked to find more than ninety corpses of women who had died of typhus, dysentery and malaria. At the beginning of 1945, prior to the arrival of American ground forces, Allied war planes attacked the main train station of Salzwedel, killing 300 people. The US Army eventually turned over control of

330-745: The city to the Soviet Red Army , causing Salzwedel to become part of the German Democratic Republic . On November 9, 1989 the East-West German border crossing near Salzwedel was opened, along with East-West border crossings in the rest of the country, allowing East Germans residing in Salzwedel and elsewhere to travel freely to West Germany for the first time since the building of the Berlin Wall . In 1990 Salzwedel received its first democratically elected city government. The official name of

352-613: The city was changed into Hansestadt Salzwedel on 1 April 2008, in reference to its history as a member of the Hanseatic League. In January 2003 the town incorporated the former municipalities Brietz, Dambeck and Mahlsdorf, in January 2009 Benkendorf , in January 2010 Chüden , Klein Gartz , Langenapel , Liesten , Osterwohle , Pretzier , Riebau , Seebenau and Tylsen , and in January 2011 Steinitz and Wieblitz-Eversdorf . Olaf Meining

374-528: The commercial and administrative center of the town until today. As in other German cities and towns during the time of Nazi Germany , the Jewish residents of the city were systematically deprived of their rights, then expelled from the city. Salzwedel was hit by five air raids from 1942-1945, and more than 300 people lost their lives, especially on 22 February 1945. In 1943, the Neuengamme concentration camp built

396-665: The following Ortschaften or municipal divisions: The castle of Salzwedel in the Altmark was first documented in 1112. As part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg , the settlement was first mentioned as a town in 1233. To the northeast of the old town ( Altstadt ), a new town ( Neustadt ) began development in 1247. In the Middle Ages Salzwedel belonged to the Hanseatic League from 1263 to 1518. As to religion Salzwedel belonged to

418-550: The son of a Blankenburg postmaster, had been ennobled in 1764 as Edler von Westphalen by Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick for his military services. He had served as the duke's de facto "chief of staff" during the Seven Years' War . Her paternal grandmother, Jeanie Wishart (1742–1811), was a Scottish noble: her father, the Very Rev Dr George Wishart , (son of William Wishart Principal of Edinburgh University )

440-526: Was born in the small town of Salzwedel in Northern Germany to a fairly recently ennobled family that had been elevated into the petty nobility . Her father, Ludwig von Westphalen (1770–1842), was a civil servant and former widower with four previous children, who served as Regierungsrat (government councillor) in Salzwedel and in Trier . Her paternal grandfather Philipp Westphal  [ de ] ,

462-497: Was four years older than Karl. They became close friends as teenagers. Both of them were well-read and literary, and they soon began courting. According to Marx, she was the most beautiful girl in the town of Trier . Her father, Ludwig von Westphalen, a friend of Marx's father, also befriended the teenage Marx, and would often go on walks with him, where they would discuss philosophy and English literature. Jenny and Karl became engaged in 1836. They eventually married on 19 June 1843 in

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484-559: Was from a middle-class family, whose father was a retired military horse-care expert. Jenny von Westphalen's brother Edgar von Westphalen (1819–1890), was a schoolmate and friend of Karl Marx. Another brother, Ferdinand Otto Wilhelm Henning von Westphalen , was the conservative Interior Minister of Prussia , 1850–58. Although he was one of the leading conservative forces in 19th century Prussia, Ferdinand would remain on amiable terms with Karl and Jenny Marx. Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Heinrich Marx regularly met each other as children. She

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