< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

NEUHALDENSLEBEN, a town of Germany, in the province of Prussian Saxony on the Ohre, situated 18 m. N.W. from Magdeburg by the railway to Öbisfelde and at the junction of a line to Eisleben. Pop. (1905) 10,421. It has an Evangelical church, an old equestrian statue of Henry the Lion and a gymnasium. There are several active industries, notably the manufacture of majolica and terra-cotta wares, machinery, gloves, beer, malt, cheese and sugar, while large pig markets are held here.

See Behrends, Chronik der Stadt Neuhaldensleben (new ed., 1903).

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