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Kretzschau

municipality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
AdministrativeArea municipality_without_town_privileges_in_germany Q635076

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
municipality without town privileges in Germany
Official website
www.vgem-dzf.de[14]
Native label
Kretzschau
Official name
Kretzschau[23]

Location

Country
Germany[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.050°, 12.067°[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Droyßiger-Zeitzer Forst, Burgenlandkreis[2][3]
Shares border with
Teuchern, Droyßig, Meineweh, Gutenborn, Zeitz[5][6][7][8][9]

Population and size

Area
+27.77, +27.76
Elevation above sea level
+197, +194
Population
2.3k (2.3k–2.8k, n=8)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Codes

Local dialing code
03441[12]
Postal code
06712[10]
More facts +2
Hashtag
Kretzschau
Licence plate code
BLK[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kretzschau ru Крецшау zh 克雷乔 zh-hant 克雷喬
🔖 Identifiers · 15
VIAF cluster ID
144975490
GND ID
16057244-7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
KretzschauHäusergruppe.JPG ↗
FactGrid item ID
Wolfgang von Graben
Freebase ID
/m/03b_c76
GeoNames ID
6549017
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 6549017 GND (DNB) 2884308 edition 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0 ↗
German municipality key
15084275
German regional key
150845052275
Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
object_357465
Klimadashboard.de region ID
a4549d0b-b6e7-497f-9fa1-1b3c48a8b64d
Museum-digital place ID
2694
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2404547
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Topic's main category
Category:Kretzschau
UN/LOCODE
DEKZS
Who's on First ID
101856165
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Berlin 2026-09-26 A/ADM4 · DE GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 5
Zeitz, Teuchern, Droyßig, Meineweh, Gutenborn
← Shares border with 5
Zeitz, Teuchern, Droyßig, Meineweh, Gutenborn
Contained subdivisions 3
White Elster, Döschwitz, Grana
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Burgenlandkreis, Droyßiger-Zeitzer Forst
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
Country 1
Germany
FactGrid item ID 1
Wolfgang von Graben
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Burgenlandkreis
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Summary

Kretzschau is a municipality without town privileges in Germany[1].

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Geography

Located in include Droyßiger-Zeitzer Forst[2], a Verbandsgemeinde in Sachsen-Anhalt[24], in Germany[25] and Burgenlandkreis[3], a district of Germany[26], in Germany[27], headquartered in Kreisverwaltung Burgenlandkreis[28].

Physical Characteristics

Areas include {'amount': '+27.77'}[29] and {'amount': '+27.76'}[30]. Elevations include {'amount': '+197'}[31] and {'amount': '+194'}[32].

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+2792'}, {'amount': '+2474'}, {'amount': '+2427'} +5
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51891|batch #51891]]: einwohnerzahlen2025"
  2. 18w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+2792'}, {'amount': '+2474'}, {'amount': '+2427'} +5
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39115|batch #39115]]: einwohnerzahlen2024"
  3. 21w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
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    Topic's main category → Category:Kretzschau
    Population → {'amount': '+2792'}, {'amount': '+2474'}, {'amount': '+2427'} +5
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/35991|batch #35991]]"
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