Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt.
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Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt.
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Dessau is surrounded by numerous parks and palaces that make it one of the greenest towns in Germany.
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Dessau was the birthplace of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, a lauded field marshal for the Kingdom of Prussia.
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In January 2005, Dessau gained notoriety for the mysterious death of a Sierra Leonean convicted drug trafficker and failed asylum seeker Oury Jalloh.
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Dessau Hauptbahnhof has connections to Magdeburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Bitterfeld and Lutherstadt Wittenberg.
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Dessau was part of the InterCity long-distance network until the year 2002.
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Airfield of Dessau is situated northwest of the town between the districts Kleinkuhnau, Alten and Siedlung.
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Dessau is located in the flat landscape of the Saxon Lowland.
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The "Schultheiss" of Dessau changed nearly every year until the town council constitution was cancelled in 1832.
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Dessau is the successor of Klemens Koschig was born on 1957, independent, and who was elected in 2007 with 56.
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