Zahna

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
image_photo = Zahna_townhall2.jpg
image_caption = Town hall built in 1897
Wappen = Wappen_Zahna.pnglat_deg = 51 |lat_min = 55
lon_deg = 12 |lon_min = 47
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Sachsen-Anhalt
Landkreis = Wittenberg
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft = Elbaue-Fläming
Höhe = 120
Fläche = 54.99
Einwohner = 4370
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 06895
Vorwahl = 034924
Kfz = WB
Gemeindeschlüssel = 15 0 91 390
LOCODE = DE ZHA
NUTS = DEE0E
Straße = Karl-Marx-Platz 8
Bürgermeister = Andreas Vogel

Zahna is a municipality in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany not far from Federal Highway ("Bundesstraße") B 2 and about 11 km east of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. It belongs to the administrative community ("Verwaltungsgemeinschaft") of Elbaue-Fläming whose seat is in Zahna.

History

Zahna is one of Saxony-Anhalt's oldest towns. It has been proved that Zahna has been occupied uninterruptedly since about 2000 BC. This has been established by archaeological finds from the 6th century BC up until the migration of the Semnoni who settled in the region.

After them came the Sorbs who took over their homes. The historic town core shows the form and structure that goes back to Flemish settlement in the High Middle Ages in the 12th century.

The whole highland north of Wittenberg was so strongly shaped by the Flemings' ways of doing things that the whole area came to be named after them; to this day, it is still called the Fläming and the town belongs to the Fläming Nature Park, which was opened in 2005.

Town partnerships

* Stęszew near Poznań, Poland.

External links

* [http://www.schmarje.net/zahna.htm Information about Zahna]