Elbe-Elster Land

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Elbe-Elster valley with the confluence of the Little Roder and the Black Elster, and the villages of Zobersdorf and Bad Liebenwerda Zobersdorf 98 2a-1.jpg
Elbe-Elster valley with the confluence of the Little Röder and the Black Elster, and the villages of Zobersdorf and Bad Liebenwerda
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Herzberg; town hall and St. Mary's Church
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The Elbe-Elster Express

Elbe-Elster Land (German : Elbe-Elster-Land), also called the Elbe-Elster region (Elbe-Elster-Gebiet) is a region around the tripoint of the German states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. It is part of the North German Plain and is named after the two major rivers that have their confluence here: the Elbe and the Black Elster.

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In older sources the northwestern parts of the present-day Elbe-Elster Land were called Mezumroka or "land between the rivers". It was part of the Gau Nizizi and almost unpopulated.

The region is first recorded as the "land between the Elbe and Elster" on 14 April 1312, when Frederick the Brave promised 32,000 marks in silver "to be paid within three days" to Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg as part of the Treaty of Tangermünde following his capture near Hayn. He also promised to cede the "land between the Elbe and Elster", the March of Lusatia and the towns of Hayn and Torgau to Brandenburg. [1] [2] [3] [4]

The "land between the Elbe and Elster" was then understood to be a region that covered what later became the Electoral Saxon Ämter or districts of Mühlberg, Liebenwerda, Schweinitz and Lochau. [1]

Today the territory of the county of Elbe-Elster which was created in 1993 is marketed and advertised for tourist purposes as the holiday region of Elbe-Elster-Land, but it also includes the western parts of Lower Lusatia around Finsterwalde and the Schraden region.

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  1. 1 2 Karl Friedrich von Klöden: Diplomatische Geschichte des Markgrafen Waldemar von Brandenburg vom Jahre 1295 bis 1323. Teil II. M. Simion, Berlin 1844, S. 109. ( Volltext , p. 109, at Google Books)
  2. "Markgraf Friedrich der Freidige (der Gebissene)". Dresden-Historie.de (in German). 2009-02-12. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
  3. Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. Sammlung der Urkunden, Chroniken und sonstigen Geschichtsquellen für die Geschichte der Mark Brandenburg und ihrer Regenten. Berlin 1838–1869. Zweiter Haupttheil oder Geschichte der auswärtigen Verhältnisse der Mark Brandenburg und ihrer Regenten, S. 319.
  4. Ralf Uschner (2012), Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e. V. Bad Liebenwerda (ed.), "Auf Spuren- und Identitätssuche – 700 Jahre Land zwischen Elbe und Elster (1312–2012)", Heimatkalender für den Altkreis Bad Liebenwerda, das Mückenberger Ländchen, Ortrand am Schraden und Uebigau-Falkenberg (in German), Bad Liebenwerda, pp. 4–12

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