Jüdenberg
district in city Gräfenhainichen, Germany
Jüdenberg (German pronunciation: [ˈjyːdn̩ˌbɛʁk]) is a Ortsteil in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since January 2007, it belongs to the municipality of Gräfenhainichen. Jüdenberg lies about 4 km northwest of Gräfenhainichen on the edge of the Biosphere Reserve Middle Elbe.
Politics
The municipal council was made up of eight councillors.
CDU 1 seat
Marksmen's Club (citizens' coalition) 5 seats
Fire Brigade (citizens' coalition) 3 seats
Free Voters (citizens' coalition) 2 seats
(as of municipal election held on 5 September 2004)
The honorary mayor Heinz Powroznik was first elected on 15 December 2002.
Transport
Road
Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 107 between Coswig and Bad Düben runs right through the community. The district road K2038 leads to Möhlau. The Dessau-Ost interchange with Autobahn A9 (Munich - Berlin) is about 11 km away.
Railway
The nearest railway station is about 4 km away in Gräfenhainichen lying on the Deutsche Bahn line between Wittenberg and Bitterfeld. Oranienbaum railway station on the Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn line is served only in the summer.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jüdenberg” is district in city Gräfenhainichen, Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jüdenberg, district and city, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “district in city Gräfenhainichen, Germany” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q878350. VIAF identifies the subject as 310693604. Authority coordinates are 51.750, 12.417. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007, 2004 and 2002.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
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- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Jüdenberg” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.