Article of the Month
Article of the month
Johann Sebastian Bach in 1746
Johann Sebastian Bach was born on 21 March 1685 (JC ) in Eisenach . He was a German composer of Baroque music and, even in his own day, was a famous organist and cembalist . He worked from 1717 to 1720 inter alia in Köthen . Today Bach is one of the greatest musical composers of all time, who has considerable influence on the music world and whose works have been played both in the original and in countless adaptations around the world. He died in 1750 in Leipzig
Geography
The federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany
Mountains : Harz - Brocken - List of mountains and hills of Saxony-Anhalt - List of mountains in the Harz
Rivers : Aland - Aller - Bode - Dosse - Eine - Elbe - Hassel - Havel - Helme - Holtemme - Ilse - Jeetzel - Luppbode - Mulde - Ohre - Rappbode - Saale - Salzwedel Dumme - Schlenze - Schwarze Elster - Tanger - Unstrut - White Elster - Wipper - Wustrow Dumme - Zillierbach
Important cities and towns : Magdeburg - Aschersleben - Bernburg (Saale) - Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Blankenburg (Harz) - Burg - Calbe (Saale) - Dessau-Roßlau - Eisleben - Freyburg (Unstrut) - Gardelegen - Genthin - Gernrode - Halberstadt - Haldensleben - Halle (Saale) - Havelberg - Hettstedt - Jessen (Elster) - Kalbe (Milde) - Klötze - Köthen (Anhalt) - Leuna - Merseburg - Naumburg (Saale) - Oebisfelde - Oschersleben (Bode) - Quedlinburg - Salzwedel - Sangerhausen - Schönebeck (Elbe) - Staßfurt - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Tangermünde - Thale - Weißenfels - Wernigerode - Wittenberg - Zeitz - Zerbst/Anhalt
Regions : Altmark - Harz - Saale-Unstrut Region
Landscapes : Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Eastphalia - Fläming - Geisel valley - Harz Foreland - Magdeburg Börde
Districts and independent towns : Anhalt-Bitterfeld - Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - Börde - Burgenlandkreis - Dessau-Roßlau - Harz - Halle (Saale) - Jerichower Land - Magdeburg - Mansfeld-Südharz - Saalekreis - Salzlandkreis - Stendal - Wittenberg
History
Nebra sky disc
History : Nebra sky disc - Thietmar of Merseburg - Eike von Repgow - Province of Saxony - Anhalt - Province of Halle - Province of Magdeburg - Albert the Bear - Cardinal Albert - Reformation - Ascania - Fruitbearing Society
Historic people : Henry the Fowler - Otto I - Otto II - Otto III - Margrave of Gero - Leopold III Frederick Franz - Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Maria of Masovia - Samuel Hahnemann - Otto von Guericke
World Heritage Sites : Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg - Luther sites in Eisleben and Wittenberg - Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Bauhaus Dessau
Transport, Tourism and Media
Aqueduct near Magdeburg
Transport : America Line - Elbe - Elbe–Havel Canal - Halberstadt–Blankenburg railway - Halle–Cottbus railway - Havel - Leipzig/Halle Airport - Magdeburg S-Bahn - Magdeburg Water Bridge - Mittelland Canal - Quedlinburg station - Stendal Central Station - Tangermünde station - Uelzen station - Wittenberge station
Tourism : Romanesque Road - Arendsee - Via Regia
Media : MDR - Sputnik
Personlities
Lucas Cranach d. Ä., 1550
Art : Lucas Cranach - Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee
Philosophy : Friedrich Schleiermacher - Christian Thomasius - Christian Wolff - Philip Melanchthon
Pedagogy : Johann Bernhard Basedow - August Hermann Francke
Literature : Clemens Brentano - Gottfried August Bürger - Johann Gleim - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Carl Immermann - Wilhelm Müller - Novalis .
Technology : Hans Grade - Hugo Junkers
Medicine : Dorothea Erxleben - Johann Christian Reil
Music : Heinrich Schütz - Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Georg Friedrich Händel - Carl Friedrich Abel - Kurt Weill - Tokio Hotel - Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt - Handel Festival, Halle
Religion : Martin Luther - Justus Jonas - Johannes Bugenhagen - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Erzbischof Wichmann
Politics : Otto von Bismarck - Wolfgang Böhmer - Hans-Dietrich Genscher
TV : Dieter Hallervorden
Miscellaneous:
Magdeburg hemispheres
Sport : Stefan Kretzschmar - SC Magdeburg - 1. FC Magdeburg (List of 1. FC Magdeburg players ) - Hallescher FC - Germania Halberstadt - Erich Rademacher - Gustav-Adolf Schur - Waldemar Cierpinski - 1. FC Aschersleben - Bischofswerdaer FV 08 - FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf
Folk festivals :
Miscellaneous : Magdeburg hemispheres