Barby, Germany

Coordinates: 51°58′N 11°52′E / 51.967°N 11.867°E

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Barby
Town
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Barby within Salzlandkreis district
Barby Show map of Germany Barby Show map of Saxony-Anhalt
Coordinates: 51°58′N 11°52′E / 51.967°N 11.867°E / 51.967; 11.867
Country	Germany
State	Saxony-Anhalt
District	Salzlandkreis
Government
• Mayor (2023–30)	Jörn Weinert^[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	152.61 km² (58.92 sq mi)
Elevation	51 m (167 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)^[2]
• Total	8,129
• Density	53/km² (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	39249
Dialling codes	039298
Vehicle registration	SLK
Website	www.stadt-barby.de

Barby (German pronunciation: [ˈbaʁbiː] ^ⓘ) is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the River Elbe, near the confluence with the Saale, approx. 25 km (16 mi) southeast of Magdeburg. Since an administrative reform of 1 January 2010 it comprises the former municipalities of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Elbe-Saale, except for Gnadau, that joined Barby in September 2010. The Barby Ferry, a reaction ferry across the Elbe, links Barby with Zerbst-Walternienburg.

Geography

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The town Barby consists of the following Ortschaften or municipal divisions:^[3]

Twin towns

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Barby is twinned with:

Schöppenstedt, Germany
Aukštadvaris, Lithuania
Pruchnik, Poland

Notable people

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Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773–1843), philosopher
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1843), theologian and philosopher
Max Sering (1857-1939), economist
Walter Conrad [de] (1892-1970), jurist and politician (FDP)
Gottfried Wehling (1862–1913), architect

References

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^ Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse, Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden – Stand: 31. Dezember 2022" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. June 2023.
^ Hauptsatzung der Stadt Barby, May 2019.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Barby".

v t e Upper Saxon Circle (1512–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire
Electorates	Brandenburg Saxony
Ecclesiastical	Cammin
Secular	Anhalt Bernburg Dessau Köthen Zerbst Barby Hatzfeld-Gleichen Pomerania Further Hither Querfurt Reuss Elder Junior Saxe-Altenburg Saxe-Coburg Saxe-Eisenach Saxe-Gotha Saxe-Weimar Schwarzburg Rudolstadt Sondershausen
Prelates	Gernrode Quedlinburg Abbey Walkenried Abbey
Counts / Lords	Hohnstein Lohra / Klettenberg Mansfeld Schönburg (Saale) Stolberg Stolberg Wernigerode Rossla
Circles est. 1500: Bavarian, Swabian, Upper Rhenish, Lower Rhenish–Westphalian, Franconian, (Lower) Saxon Circles est. 1512: Austrian, Burgundian, Upper Saxon, Electoral Rhenish · Unencircled territories See also: Ernestine duchies

v t e Towns and municipalities in the district of Salzlandkreis
Alsleben Aschersleben Barby Bernburg Bördeaue Börde-Hakel Bördeland Borne Calbe Egeln Giersleben Güsten Hecklingen Ilberstedt Könnern Nienburg Plötzkau Schönebeck Seeland Staßfurt Wolmirsleben

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