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Burgscheidungen is a village and a former municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the town Laucha an der Unstrut.

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German location.type
Stadtteil
German location.Town
Laucha an der Unstrut
German location.state
Sachsen-Anhalt
German location.district
Burgenlandkreis
German location.elevation
130
German location.area
8.36
German location.population
592
German location.Stand
2006-12-31
German location.postal_code
06636
German location.area_code
034462

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Burgscheidungen is a village and a former municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the town Laucha an der Unstrut.

Burgscheidungen was the site of the Saxon Hadugato's defeat of the Thuringians under King Irminfrid in 531. This defeat spelled the end of an independent Thuringian kingdom. It is variously attributed to the Franks under King Theuderic I or to their allies, the Saxons under Duke Hathagat. It was one of the founding myths of the Saxons by the ninth century.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burgscheidungen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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