Sandersdorf
village in Germany
Sandersdorf (German pronunciation: [ˈzandɐsdɔʁf]) is a village and a former municipality in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the town Sandersdorf-Brehna. It is situated approximately 5 km west of Bitterfeld, and 27 km northeast of Halle (Saale).
It is the birthplace of German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sandersdorf” is village in Germany. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sandersdorf, village and Germany, not as a finished interpretation.
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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 Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3187639. VIAF identifies the subject as 2351150203816703250002. Authority coordinates are 51.627, 12.269. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sandersdorf” 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.