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Schkeuditz

Western Europe

Schkeuditz is a Grosse Kreisstadt in the Nordsachsen district of Saxony, Germany, on the White Elster river about 12 kilometers northwest of Leipzig. Leipzig/Halle Airport lies within the town, and the nearby Schkeuditzer Kreuz, opened in 1936, was the first cloverleaf highway interchange built in Germany.

Facts
Population
19,145 1
Founding Year
981 2
Founding Year
981 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Temperate 4
Time Zone
UTC+01:00 5
Sources
1. Schkeuditz (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)
Quote, P1082 (population)
population 19,145 (2025)
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2. Schkeuditz (Wikipedia)
  • Source text, founding-year-range-start: 981
    Schkeuditz was first documented in the year 981 as a church in Merseburg bishopric with the name "scudici".
  • Source text, founding-year-range-end: 981
    Schkeuditz was first documented in the year 981 as a church in Merseburg bishopric with the name "scudici".
  • Source text, founding-year: 981
    Schkeuditz was first documented in the year 981 as a church in Merseburg bishopric with the name "scudici".
  • In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
  • On Continent: Europe, Lead paragraph names Germany; continent follows from the atlas record for Germany
    Skudźicy) is a Große Kreisstadt in the district of Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany
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3. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Schkeuditz coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevation
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"elevation": [ 125.0 ]
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 12.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 51.25, 12.25
51.25 12.25 Cfb
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5. GeoNames: Schkeuditz - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 2839050, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
Quote, cities500 record 2839050, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
51.39678 12.22141 P PPL DE 13 00 14730 14730270 18487 110 Europe/Berlin
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