Elsteraue | |
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 Timber-framed houses in Elsteraue | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Elsteraue within Burgenlandkreis district  | |
 Location of Elsteraue | |
  Elsteraue  Elsteraue | |
| Coordinates:51°4′30″N12°13′5″E / 51.07500°N 12.21806°E /51.07500; 12.21806 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Burgenlandkreis |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2017–24) | Andreas Buchheim[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 79.91 km2 (30.85 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 145 m (476 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 7,843 |
| • Density | 98.15/km2 (254.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 06712, 06724, 06725, 06729 |
| Dialling codes | 034424, 03441 |
| Vehicle registration | BLK |
| Website | www.gemeinde-elsteraue.de |
Elsteraue is a municipality in theBurgenlandkreis district inSaxony-Anhalt, in easternGermany. It is situated near theWhite Elster river, about 30 km (20 mi) southwest ofLeipzig.
It is divided into many municipal districts:
DuringWorld War II, the present-day district of Tröglitz was the location of asubcamp of theBuchenwald concentration camp, and some 8,600 prisoners, mostly Jews, passed through it.[3] The prisoners were subjected toforced labour, poor food rations, and harassment by theSS, and over 850 died there, while other exhausted prisoners were sent back to Buchenwald, and many were then sent to theAuschwitz concentration camp and murdered there.[3] Among the prisonersImre Kertész, Hungarian author and recipient of the2002 Nobel Prize in Literature.[3] In April 1945, the camp was evacuated, with some 3,000 surviving prisoners sent by train towardsGerman-occupied Czechoslovakia, and at least 380 prisoners massacred by the SS and German civilians during the transport, inReitzenhain on the pre-war Czechoslovak-German border.[3]
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