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Güsten
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Güsten () is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, west of Bernburg. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Saale-Wipper. It absorbed the former municipality Amesdorf in January 2010.

Key facts

German place.type
Stadt
German place.image_coa
DE-ST 15-0-89-165 Guesten COA.png
German place.image_plan
Güsten in SLK.png
German place.state
Sachsen-Anhalt
German place.district
Salzlandkreis
German place.Verbandsgemeinde
Saale-Wipper
German place.elevation
92
German place.area
36.16
German place.postal_code
39439
German place.area_code
039262
German place.licence
SLK
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
15 0 89 165
German place.website
www.wipperaue-guesten.de
German place.mayor
Michael Kruse
German place.leader_term
2022–29

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Güsten () is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the river Wipper, west of Bernburg. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Saale-Wipper. It absorbed the former municipality Amesdorf in January 2010.

== Notable people == left|thumb|upright=0.65|Memorial plate Berlin Arno Philippsthal Arno Philippsthal (1887-1933), physician and one of the first Jewish victims of the National Socialist rule in Berlin Ernst-Otto Reher (1936-2016), process engineer and professor, pioneer of technical rheology Fritz Siedentopf (1908–1944), communist and resistance fighter against Nazism. Julius Kraaz (1822-1889), lawyer, sugar producer and member of the German Reichstag, died in Güsten

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

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