Axien
Sign in to saveAxien is a village and a former municipality in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Annaburg.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Ortsteil
- German location.Town
- Annaburg
- German location.image_photo
- Kirche_Axien_1.jpg
- German location.state
- Sachsen-Anhalt
- German location.district
- Wittenberg
- German location.elevation
- 73
- German location.area
- 22.57
- German location.population
- 565
- German location.Stand
- 2006-12-31
- German location.postal_code
- 06922
- German location.area_code
- 035386
- German location.licence
- WB
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Axien is a village and a former municipality in the Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Annaburg.
==Geography and transport== The community lies about 35 km southeast of Wittenberg and about 20 km north of Torgau in the lowlands on the east bank of the Elbe on an old, now dry, arm of that river. West of the community runs Federal Highway (Bundesstraße) B 182, and to the north is the B 187. It lies on the "Mid-Germany Church Road". In the south, the community borders on Saxony.