Rothensee with its 2,800 inhabitants is a district of Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt. The "red lake" which gave the vilalge its name is probably a former bathing lake fed by an old Elbarm. According to legend, this lake originated from the blood of a dead lindworm. For the first time, Rothensee was first mentioned in 1176, the exact date of its foundation is not known.
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The district Rothensee houses some architecturally interesting buildings. Worth seeing is for example, the Protestant Reformation Church,a bakestone building built between 1909 and 1910 in the Turmstrasse. In the same street is also the oldest building of Rothensee, a residential building built around the year 1200, once part of a Freihof of the Magdeburger Dompropstei. A typical building for the 1920s, the former school of red brick built in 1925, is located in the Windmühlenstraße.
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