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Zerbst is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until the administrative reform of 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the Anhalt-Zerbst district. Zerbst has about 15,000 inhabitants.
When it was founded is not clear; however, a region by the name was mentioned as early as 949. The town is first mentioned in the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg in 1018.
From 1582 to 1798, the Francisceum Gymnasium illustre was an important Calvinist academy.
History Zerbst about 1650
949 a region Ciervisti was mentioned for the first time in a document.
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Zerbst is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Until the administrative reform of 2007, Zerbst was the capital of the Anhalt-Zerbst district. Zerbst has about 15,000 inhabitants.
When it was founded is not clear; however, a region by the name was mentioned as early as 949. The town is first mentioned in the chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg in 1018.
From 1582 to 1798, the Francisceum Gymnasium illustre was an important Calvinist academy.
History Zerbst about 1650
949 a region Ciervisti was mentioned for the first time in a document. The place itself finds the first mention in the chronicle of the Thietmar of Merseburg (1018). In 1307 Albrecht I acquired the city of Zerbst of Messrs. von Barby. The askanische rule began with it. From 1582 to 1798 the Francisceum existed as a high school illustre, an important college of the time which had a big radiation in the whole Central European philippistisch-calvinistischen area. From 1603 to 1793 Zerbst was a residence of the principality clue Zerbst to whose area, among the rest, also the rule Jever belonged. From 1722 to 1758 was here important baroque composer Johann Friedrich Fasch Hofkapellmeister. To him to honour take place since 1983 Fasch holidays. In 1745 princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst married the Russian successor to the throne Peter III. As Catharine II (the Great) she herself ascended in 1762 the czar's throne and governed till 1796 Russia. In 1797 Zerbst became a component of the principality clue Dessau. By the end of the second world war a labour camp was established on the edge of the military airfield for so-called „hybrids I degree “ and "Jüdisch Versippte". 700 men were used from there to the hard labour with the road construction, airport construction and peat jump-off. From 1891 to 1928 a horse road operated by the Zerbster streetcar in the town which belonged to the horse roads which survived longest in Germany. On the 16th of April, 1945 Zerbst was destroyed by Allied air raids in the Second World War to 80 percent. The Old Town was rebuilt in following decades under essential change of the townscape, only few historical constructions have been preserved. For a name change it came on the 1st of July, 2006 when itself the town of Zerbst renamed in Zerbst / clue. In 1. July, 2007 the city of Zerbst / clue was integrated together with some municipalities of the present administrative district clue Zerbst to the administrative district founded anew clue Bitterfeld with the capital town Köthen.
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