5-773: Elsteraue is a municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district in Saxony-Anhalt , in eastern Germany . It is situated near the White Elster river, about 30 km (20 mi) southwest of Leipzig . It is divided into many municipal districts: During World War II , the present-day district of Tröglitz was the location of a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , and some 8,600 prisoners, mostly Jews, passed through it. The prisoners were subjected to forced labour , poor food rations, and harassment by
10-619: The SS , and over 850 died there, while other exhausted prisoners were sent back to Buchenwald, and many were then sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there. Among the prisoners Imre Kertész , Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature . In April 1945, the camp was evacuated, with some 3,000 surviving prisoners sent by train towards German-occupied Czechoslovakia , and at least 380 prisoners massacred by
15-518: The SS and German civilians during the transport, in Reitzenhain on the pre-war Czechoslovak-German border. This Burgenlandkreis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Burgenlandkreis Burgenlandkreis is a district in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany. Its area is 1,414.0 km (545.9 sq mi). The district was established as Landkreis Burgenland by
20-467: The following subdivisions: The district's free towns are Hohenmölsen , Lützen , Naumburg , Teuchern , Weißenfels , and Zeitz . The only free municipality is Elsteraue . seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ('association community'); town 51°9′N 11°52′E / 51.150°N 11.867°E / 51.150; 11.867 This Burgenlandkreis location article
25-546: The merger of the former Burgenlandkreis and Landkreis Weißenfels as part of the reform of 2007 . On 16 July 2007, the district parliament decided to change the name to Burgenlandkreis, which came into effect on 1 August 2007. In 2015 the skeletal remains of an ancient inhabitant of Karsdorf dated from the Early Neolithic (7200 BP ) were analyzed; he turned out to belong to the paternal T1a-M70 lineage and maternal lineage H1 . The Burgenlandkreis consists of
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