Map
Statistics
State:	Saxony-Anhalt
Regierungsbezirk:	Madgeburg
District:	Quedlinburg
Area:	57 km²
Population:	8,277 (12/31/2002)
Population density:	145/km²
Elevation:	235 m
Postal code:	06493
Area/distance code:	039483
Location:	51.71667/51°43' N lat. 11.21667/11°13' W long.
Municipal code:	15 3 64 003
Car designation:	EIC
Address of the city administration:	12 Rathausplatz Ballenstedt 06493
Website:	www.dallenstedt.de (http://www.ballenstedt.de/)
Politics
Mayor:	Wolfgang Schneider (FDP)

Ballenstedt is a town, which is been located on the northern edge of the east resin. It belongs to the district of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt. The Roman-style road leads into Ballenstedt.

In Ballenstedt it has a Schloss in Ballenstedt the Ascanian seat. The mine tester representative Albert I of Brandenburg from in the year 1157 of Mark Brandenburg and was her first Markgtaf. Albert I led like his father, the title Graf von Ballenstedt. Albert I's grave lies with some gates in the Ascanian monastery in Ballenstedt. In the city park, a monument for Albrecht is located, built from Frithjof Meussling.

Ballenstedt became furthermore as a cemetery. The former house of Kuegelgens equally beside the schloss (château) serves today as a museum. Also the schloss is used as museum. The Ballenstedter schloss theatre is the oldest theatre in Saxony-Anhalt. After the turn, 1989 the first democratically selected mayor of Ballenstedt, Wolfgang Gurke, changed the fate of the city considerably.

Likewise it resided for a long long time in Ballenstedt the prominent family Kiep, from which Ottl Kiep (diplomat) and Walther Leisler Kiep.

External link

• homepage (http://www.ballenstedt.de)

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