Groeninga M.D. LXX.III

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Groeninga M.D. LXX.III

Decorative and detailed view of Groeningen in Sachsen Anhalt. Gröningen was first mentioned in a document in 934. Ecclesiastically, the area belonged to the bishopric of Halberstadt of the archbishopric of Mainz. Gröningen was at times the residence town of the Bishop of Halberstadt. As a result of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, the bishopric of Halberstadt fell as a secular principality in 1650 and the archbishopric of Magdeburg in 1680 to the Electorate of Brandenburg and the later Kingdom of Prussia, respectively. After the defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon annexed the areas of Prussia west of the Elbe to the Kingdom of Westphalia. Gröningen belonged to the Saal Department. After the Congress of Vienna, Gröningen became part of the Magdeburg administrative district of the Prussian province of Saxony in 1816. The sugar factory Wiersdorff, Hecker & Co was built in Gröningen in 1864. Initially, it was in competition with a small sugar factory in Kloster Gröningen, which had already been built in 1848 and went out of business in 1876.

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Münster