Altenburg (disambiguation)

Altenburg is a town in Thuringia, Germany.

It may also refer to:

People

• Altenburg (surname)

Places

Towns and villages

• Altenburg, Missouri, US
• Altenburg, Lower Austria
• Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Lower Austria
• a hamlet in Märstetten municipality, Thurgau, Switzerland
• a village incorporated into Brugg municipality, Aargau, Switzerland
• a frazione or subdivision in Kaltern an der Weinstraße, South Tyrol, Italy

Historical

• Division of Altenburg, 1445: a division of lands in Thuringia and Saxony that led to war
• Saxe-Altenburg, a German duchy and state, in present-day Thuringia
• Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, a German duchy related to Saxe-Altenburg (1680-1826)
• Raid at Altenburg (1813), in the War of the Sixth Coalition

Altenburg is the German exonym for the towns of:

• Vecpils, Latvia
• Baia de Criş, Hunedoara County, Romania
• Staré Hrady, Czech Republic
• Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary

Castles

• Altenburg Castle, Switzerland
• Altenburg/Alteburg, remains of a Roman castrum in Hesse, Germany, also the site of a short-lived Benedictine monastery in the mid-12th century
• Altenburg (Bamberg), castle in Bavaria, Germany
• Heimburg Castle (also known as the Altenburg) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Other

• Altenburg (Niedenstein), a mountain in Hesse, Germany
• Altenburg (Neuental), a mountain in Hesse, Germany
• Altenburg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Altenburg, Lower Austria
• 9336 Altenburg, an asteroid belt discovered in 1991

See also

• Altenberg (disambiguation)