Sudenburg, Magdeburg — Area Guide & Where to Stay

What are the main landmarks in Sudenburg?

One house survived the demolition of 1812. It stands on what is now the Ackerstraße and was converted into the new Sudenburg town hall in 1810. A church followed the return.

The people built a new one in 1822 and dedicated it again to Saint Ambrose as their old town's had been, and the Kirchplatz around it became the centre. Industry left its own buildings. The Zuckschwerdt sugar refinery of 1836 lasted into the East German period, the Schondorff and Curio chocolate and confectionery works ran from 1887, and a water tower was built at eighty-six metres above sea level on the west side of the present Aßmannstraße in 1859 to supply Magdeburg.

What is the history of Sudenburg?

Sudenburg is older than most of Magdeburg's suburbs. It is first mentioned in 965, lay immediately outside the gates in what is now the southern part of the old town, answered to the archbishop of Magdeburg and received town rights in 1368. Proximity turned out badly.

War damage and the constant extension of the archiepiscopal fortifications meant Sudenburg had to be rebuilt further and further south each time. Sweden burned it in 1631. The city commandant von Falkenberg ordered it fired in April that year during the Thirty Years War to hold up Tilly's troops just before the sack of Magdeburg.

Napoleon finished the job in 1812. A decree had the town demolished entirely again to clear a field of fire for the fortress, the owners were compensated with land from the secularised foundations about two kilometres out, and a new and again independent town was laid out on a grid, called Katharinenstadt under French rule. Growth came with the railway and the end of the fortress rules.

Sudenburg was the first larger suburb taken into Magdeburg in 1867, the Braunschweig line arrived in 1872, a horse tramway to the Altstadt opened in 1876, and building restrictions were lifted in 1891.

Where is Sudenburg?

Sudenburg covers 5.29 square kilometres in the southwest of Magdeburg, bounded east by the Magdeburger Ring, south by Lemsdorf beyond the Brenneckestraße and Ottersleben beyond the Klinke, and north by the Braunschweig to Magdeburg railway.