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The cap­i­tal of Sax­ony-An­halt is Magde­burg. It is the sec­ond-largest city in the state, closely after Halle. From 1994 to 2003, the state was di­vided into three re­gions (Regierungs­bezirke), Dessau, Halle and Magde­burg and, below the re­gional level, 21 dis­tricts (Land­kreise). Since 2004, how­ever, this sys­tem has been re­placed by 11 ru...

In April 1945 the US Army took con­trol of most of the west­ern and north­ern area of the fu­ture Sax­ony-An­halt. The U.S. Group Con­trol Coun­cil, Germany (a pre­cur­sor of the OMGUS) ap­pointed the first non-Nazi of­fi­cials in lead­ing po­si­tions in the area. So Er­hard Hübener, put on leave by the Nazis, was reap­pointed Lan­deshaupt­mann (st...

Since Ger­man re­uni­fi­ca­tion, there has been a con­tin­u­ous down­ward trend in the pop­u­la­tion of Sax­ony-An­halt. This is partly due to out­ward mi­gra­tion and partly be­cause the death rate ex­ceeds the birth rate. Al­though the birth rate has been steady since 1994, the net re­pro­duc­tion rate is only ap­prox­i­mately 70%. How­ever, the ...

13 March 2016 state election

Min­is­ter-pres­i­dent Reiner Haseloff(CDU) re­tained his po­si­tion in a coali­tion with for­mer part­ner SPD and the Greens.

Development of the economy

Sax­ony-An­halt was part of the com­mu­nist Ger­man De­mo­c­ra­tic Re­pub­lic. After the break­down of com­mu­nism and the Ger­man re­uni­fi­ca­tion in 1990, the col­lapse of non com­pet­i­tive for­mer GDR in­dus­tries tem­porar­ily caused se­vere eco­nomic prob­lems. In 2000, Sax­ony-An­halt had the high­est un­em­ploy­ment rate of all Ger­man states, at 20.2%. How­ever, the process of eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tion to­wards a mod­ern mar­ket econ­omy seems to be com­pleted. Mas­sive in­vest­me...

Structure of the economy

1. The chemical industry is quite important, with almost 25,500 employees across 214 plants in 2010. One of the biggest chemical producing areas can be found around the city of Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Because of the chemical industry, Saxony-Anhalt attracts more foreign direct investmentsthan any other state in eastern Germany. 2. The state is the location of numerous wind farmsproducing wind-turbine energy. 3. Saxony-Anhalt is also famous for its good soil. Hence, the food industry has an importa...

World Heritage Sites

Sax­ony-An­halt has the most World Her­itage Sitesof all states in Ger­many. 1. Col­le­giate Church, Cas­tle, and Old Town of Quedlin­burg 2. Luther Memo­ri­als in Wit­ten­berg 3. Luther Memo­ri­als in Eisleben 4. Bauhaus Dessau 5. Dessau-Wörlitz Gar­den Realm 6. The Cathe­dral of Naum­burg