Nienstedt
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Nienstedt is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz
district, Saxony-Anhalt
, Germany
. Since 1 January 2010, it has been a part of the town Allstedt
.
The earliest known reference to the village is in a record from AD 899, where it is referred to as Ninstat.
It is the home of the two men with the "world's longest family tree" . Manfred Huchthausen, a teacher, and Uwe Lange, a surveyor, both have the same rare DNA pattern as that found in the skeletal material of a man whose bones were found in a cave in nearby Lichtenstein dating to about 1000 BC.
Mansfeld-Südharz
- History :The district was established by merging the former districts of Sangerhausen and Mansfelder Land as part of the reform of 2007.- Towns and municipalities :The district Mansfeld-Südharz consists of the following subdivisions:-References:...
district, Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt is a landlocked state of Germany. Its capital is Magdeburg and it is surrounded by the German states of Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony, and Thuringia.Saxony-Anhalt covers an area of...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. Since 1 January 2010, it has been a part of the town Allstedt
Allstedt
Allstedt is a town the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximatively 10 km southeast of Sangerhausen.- References :...
.
The earliest known reference to the village is in a record from AD 899, where it is referred to as Ninstat.
It is the home of the two men with the "world's longest family tree" . Manfred Huchthausen, a teacher, and Uwe Lange, a surveyor, both have the same rare DNA pattern as that found in the skeletal material of a man whose bones were found in a cave in nearby Lichtenstein dating to about 1000 BC.