Meuselwitz
Sign in to saveMeuselwitz () is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Altenburg and 11 km east of Zeitz.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Rathaus Meuselwitz.JPG
- German place.image_caption
- Town hall
- German place.image_coa
- DEU Meuselwitz COA.svg
- German place.image_plan
- Meuselwitz in ABG.png
- German place.state
- Thüringen
- German place.district
- Altenburger Land
- German place.elevation
- 170
- German place.area
- 53.66
- German place.postal_code
- 04610
- German place.area_code
- 03448
- German place.licence
- ABG
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 16 0 77 032
- German place.website
- www.meuselwitz.de
- German place.mayor
- Ronny Dathe
- German place.leader_term
- 2021–27
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Meuselwitz () is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated 12 km northwest of Altenburg and 11 km east of Zeitz.
==History== During World War II, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp operated here. It provided slave labour for HASAG, the third largest consumer of forced labour during the war. All satellites of Buchenwald were HASAG factories. The Meuselwitz plant used 1,666 prisoners, of which, 1,376 were women. The SS charged less for women; they had a higher mortality rate. Wintersdorf has been part of the town Meuselwitz since December 1, 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meuselwitz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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