Wittenberge

Wittenberge is a city of 18,000 humans at the middle Elbe inside the district of Prignitz, Brandenburg, Germany. The site becomes marked out in 1239 at Wendischwalde and in 1300 the Saxon king, Otto I, installed the settlement. It grew slowly however step by step. The metropolis citadel survives as the metropolis museum however it suffered fires in 1686 and 1757, and floods from the Elbe in 1709 and 1761. Nevertheless, because of its role, it prospered from the opening of the Berlin–Hamburg steamship site visitors. By 1823 milling, processing and refining of foodstuffs were vital industries.

In 1846 the railway got here and a silk factory became constructed, observed by way of a chemical manufacturing facility in 1849. The Reichsbahn railway workshops were set up in 1875 and the sector-well-known Singer Sewing Machine Company set up there in 1903. By 1914 the Rathaus became constructed. From 15 August 1942 till 17 February 1945 a awareness camp become installed in Wittenberge. The camp changed into a subcamp to the Neuengamme awareness camp.