- Arneburg
Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
image_photo =
Wappen = Wappen Arneburg.png
lat_deg = 52 |lat_min = 40
lon_deg = 12 |lon_min = 0
Lageplan = Arneburg in SDL.png
Bundesland = Sachsen-Anhalt
Landkreis = Stendal
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = Arneburg-Goldbeck
Höhe = 29
Fläche = 26.45
Einwohner = 1674
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 39596
Vorwahl = 039321
Kfz = SDL
Gemeindeschlüssel = 15 0 90 010
Adresse-Verband = An der Zuckerfabrik 1
39596 Arneburg
Website = [http://www.arneburg-goldbeck.de/ www.arneburg-goldbeck.de]
Bürgermeister = Siegfried RutterArneburg is a town in the district of Stendal, in
Saxony-Anhalt ,Germany . It is situated on the left bank of theElbe , approx. 12 km northeast ofStendal . It is part of the "Verwaltungsgemeinschaft " ("collective municipality")Arneburg-Goldbeck .History
The stronghold was founded by Henry the Fowler on the Elbe as a bulwark against the Wends. In the middle ages Arneburg was a strategic possession of Brandenburg, whose Elector Frederick II (the "Iron Elector") mortgaged it for "100 good Rhenish gilders" to Hans
von Blumenthal , who was appointed Vogt of Arneburg, a post which he still held long after 1450, when the Hohenzollerns had repaid the mortgage. Arneburg was an important Hohenzollern possession and indeed the Elector John Cicero died there in 1499. The ruins are now part of a park surrounded by a pretty town.
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