Timeline of Magdeburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Magdeburg, Germany.

Prior to 19th century

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19th century

  • 1806 - Siege of Magdeburg (1806) by French forces; Magdeburg "annexed to the kingdom of Westphalia."[3]
  • 1814 - Magdeburg becomes part of Prussia again.[3]
  • 1815 - Administrative Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg (region) created.
  • 1818 - Prussian IV Army Corps headquartered in Magdeburg.
  • 1824 - Herrenkrugpark [de] expanded.
  • 1825 - Industrie- und Handelskammer Magdeburg [de] (chamber of commerce) founded.[7]
Magdeburg in the 1830s
  • 1840
  • 1843
  • 1846 - Berlin–Magdeburg railway begins operating.
  • 1851 - Magdeburg Synagogue [de] built.
  • 1855 - Grusonwerk [de] machinery manufactory begins operating in nearby Buckau.
  • 1860 - Viktoriatheater (Magdeburg) [de] opens.
  • 1866 - Rathaus Magdeburg [de] (city hall) enlarged.[3]
  • 1867 - Sudenburg [de] becomes part of Magdeburg.
  • 1873 - Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof (train station) opens.
  • 1876 - Stadttheater Magdeburg (theatre) opens.
  • 1877 - Soldiers' Memorial erected.[6]
  • 1885 - Population: 114,291.(de)
  • 1886
    • Alte Neustadt [de] becomes part of Magdeburg.
    • Martin Luther monument (Magdeburg) [de] erected.[6]
  • 1887 - Buckau becomes part of Magdeburg.
  • 1890 - Volksstimme newspaper begins publication.[7]
  • 1895 - Population: 214,424.[8]
  • 1896

20th century

Magdeburg at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • 1903 - Königsbrücke [de] (bridge) opens.
  • 1905 - Population: 240,661.[3]
  • 1906 - Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg founded.
  • 1907
    • Zentraltheater (theatre) opens.[4]
    • Rathaus Magdeburg [de] (city hall) new building constructed.
  • 1908 - Rothensee [de] becomes part of Magdeburg.[4]
  • 1910 - Cracau (Magdeburg) [de], Fermersleben [de], Lemsdorf [de], Prester (Magdeburg) [de], Salbke [de], and Westerhüsen [de] become part of Magdeburg.[4]
  • 1917 - Polish leader Józef Piłsudski and close associate Kazimierz Sosnkowski imprisoned in Magdeburg.[9]
  • 1918 - Piłsudski and Sosnkowski released.[9]
  • 1919 - Population: 285,856.[10]
  • 1934
  • 1938 - November: Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews.[4]
  • 1939 - Nazi camp for Sinti and Romani people established (see also Porajmos).[12]
  • 1942 - Zwangsarbeiterlager Diana [de] (labor camp) built.
  • 1944
  • 1945
    • 16 January: Aerial Bombing of Magdeburg on 16 January 1945 [de] by Allied forces.[4]
    • 13 April: Subcamps of Buchenwald at the Polte ammunition factory dissolved. Dozens of prisoners massacred by the Volkssturm and Hitler Youth. Surviving prisoners sent on death marches towards the Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen concentration camps.[13][14]
    • 18 April: City occupied by United States forces.[4]
    • 1 July: City occupied by Soviet forces.[4]
  • 1949 - City becomes part of the German Democratic Republic.
  • 1954 - Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg [de] (hospital) and Medizinische Akademie Magdeburg [de] (medical school) founded.
  • 1955
Magdeburg in 1963
  • 1965
    • 1. FC Magdeburg (football club) formed.[4]
    • Neue Strombrücke Magdeburg [de] (bridge) opens.
  • 1974 - S-Bahn Mittelelbe (city railway) begins operating.
  • 1987 - Technical University Magdeburg [de] active.[4]
  • 1990
    • City becomes part of reunited nation of Germany.
    • Wilhelm Polte [de] becomes mayor.[4]
  • 1991
    • Regional Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt (legislature) begins meeting in Magdeburg.
    • Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal [de] (school) established.
  • 1993 - Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg established.
  • 1994 - Municipal election held.(de)
  • 1996 - Jerusalembrücke (Nordbrücke) [de] (bridge) built.
  • 1997 - GETEC Arena opens.
  • 1998
    • March: Alliance '90/The Greens conference held in Magdeburg.(de)
    • Allee-Center Magdeburg [de] (shopping centre) in business on Breiter Weg (Magdeburg) [de].
  • 1999

21st century

  • 2001
    • Lutz Trümper becomes mayor.[4]
    • Landesarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt [de] (archives) established.
  • 2003 - Magdeburg Water Bridge opens near city.[4]
  • 2006 - MDCC-Arena opens.
  • 2010 - Magdeburger Regionalverkehrsverbund [de] (transit entity) established.
  • 2013 - June: Flood.[4]
  • 2015 - Population: 238,212.(de)

See also

Other cities in the state of Saxony-Anhalt:(de)

References

  1. ^ a b Hourihane 2012.
  2. ^ "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Stadt Geschichte: Die Stadtchronik (timeline)". Ottostadt Magdeburg (in German). Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  5. ^ Hermann Tallau (2008). "Alteste (100) Schützenvereinigungen 799-1392". Ein Kaleidoskop zum Schützenwesen (in German). Duderstadt: Mecke Druck und Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936617-85-6.
  6. ^ a b c Chambers 1901.
  7. ^ a b "Germany". Western Europe. Regional Surveys of the World (5th ed.). Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0.
  8. ^ "German Empire: States of Germany: Prussia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1899. hdl:2027/nyp.33433081590550 – via HathiTrust.
  9. ^ a b Waldemar Kowalski. "Józef Piłsudski w Magdeburgu, czyli więzień stanu nr 1". Dzieje.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Germany: Area and Population: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921. hdl:2027/njp.32101072368440 – via Hathi Trust.
  11. ^ Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg 1995.
  12. ^ "Lager für Sinti und Roma Magdeburg". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  13. ^ a b c "Magdeburg (Polte, Frauen)". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.
  14. ^ a b "Magdeburg (Polte, Männer)". aussenlager-buchenwald.de (in German). Retrieved 13 August 2022.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

in German

  • J. A. F. Hermes; M.J. Weigelt (1842). Historisch-geographisch-statistisch-topographisches Handbuch vom Regierungsbezirke Magdeburg (in German). Magdeburg: W. Heinrichshofen.
  • Magdeburg. Die Chroniken der deutschen Städte (in German). Vol. 7, 27. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag. 1869–1899 – via HathiTrust.
  • Max Dittmar (1885). Beiträge zur geschichte der stadt Magdeburg in den ersten jahren nach ihrer zerstörung 1631 (in German). Halle: Max Niemeyer.
  • Waldemar Kawerau (1886). Aus Magdeburgs Vergangenheit (in German). Halle.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Karl von Hegel (1891). "Magdeburg". Städte und Gilden der germanischen Völker im Mittelalter (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. hdl:2027/wu.89094689700 – via HathiTrust.
  • "Zeittafel: Magdeburger Geschichte (timeline)", Parkanlagen Stadt Magdeburg I (in German), Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, 1995, pp. 16–23
  • Helmut Asmus; Manfred Wille (2000). 1200 Jahre Magdeburg: von der Kaiserpfalz zur Landeshauptstadt: eine Stadtgeschichte (in German). ISBN 3933046165. 2000–2009. (4 vols.)
  • Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon (in German). 2002.
  • Sachsen-Anhalt 1: Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg. Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler (in German). 2002.
  • Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Magdeburg". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 1349–1390. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.

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