Schkeuditz
Sign in to saveSchkeuditz (; ) is a Große Kreisstadt in the district of Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the White Elster river, 12km northwest of Leipzig. Leipzig/Halle Airport is located in Schkeuditz. The letter processing center for the greater Leipzig region is also located in Schkeuditz. "Schkeuditzer Kreuz", the first cloverleaf exchange in Germany was opened in 1936, and today is the intersection between the autobahns A9 and A14.
Key facts
- German place.type
- Stadt
- German place.image_photo
- Schkeuditz, Rathaus.jpg
- German place.image_caption
- Townhall in central Schkeuditz
- German place.image_coa
- Wappen schkeuditz.png
- German place.image_plan
- Schkeuditz in TDO.png
- German place.state
- Sachsen
- German place.district
- Nordsachsen
- German place.elevation
- 91-148
- German place.area
- 81.47
- German place.postal_code
- 04435
- German place.area_code
- 034204
- German place.licence
- TDO, DZ, EB, OZ, TG, TO
- German place.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 14730270
- German place.divisions
- 10
- German place.website
- www.schkeuditz.de
- German place.mayor
- Rayk Bergner
- German place.leader_term
- 2017–24
- German place.party
- CDU
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Population over time
- Annexations
- Schladitzer See
- People
- References
Schkeuditz (; ) is a Große Kreisstadt in the district of Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the White Elster river, 12km northwest of Leipzig. Leipzig/Halle Airport is located in Schkeuditz. The letter processing center for the greater Leipzig region is also located in Schkeuditz. "Schkeuditzer Kreuz", the first cloverleaf exchange in Germany was opened in 1936, and today is the intersection between the autobahns A9 and A14.
==History== The Linear Pottery Well excavated in the Schkeuditz locality of Altscherbitz is 7000 years old. Schkeuditz was first documented in the year 981 as a church in Merseburg bishopric with the name "scudici".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schkeuditz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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