{"id":21612,"date":"2022-07-17T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T11:47:28","slug":"places-of-interest-in-wittenberge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/brandenburg\/prignitz\/places-of-interest-in-wittenberge\/","title":{"rendered":"Places of interest in Wittenberge – a visit to the town on the Elbe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Wittenberge is located in the Prignitz region of Brandenburg, directly on the Elbe River. The town is located almost exactly in the middle on the railway line from Berlin to Hamburg. With a twinkle in their eye, the people of Wittenberge like to refer to these major cities as their suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In the course of the German settlement of the Mark Brandenburg, Wittenberge was founded by the Gans family. A document from 1300 confirms the town’s town charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thirty Years’ War, major fires in 1686 and 1757 and Elbe dyke breaches (1709 and 1761) destroyed large parts of the town and led to high losses among the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n