Question: What year did the city were Hans-Joachim Merker was born end?

Knowledge 1: Hans-Joachim Merker
Hans-Joachim Merker (born 7 October 1929 in Merseburg, died 18 August 2014 in Berlin) was a German physician and anatomist. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1998, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1981. He was noted for his research on the fine structure of connective tissue, the morphology of hormone effects, and embryological and embryotoxic problems, and his research was central in the development of medical research utilising electron microscopy. Hans Georg Baumgarten noted on his death that he was "not only a chair-holder, but a philosopher, humanist, anthropologist, developmental biologist, transdisciplinary scholar and scientist". [SEP] Knowledge 2: Merseburg
From 1657 to 1738 Merseburg was the residence of the Dukes of Saxe-Merseburg, after which it fell to the Electorate of Saxony. In 1815 following the Napoleonic Wars, the town became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony.
Knowledge 1: Hans-Joachim Merker
Hans-Joachim Merker (born 7 October 1929 in Merseburg, died 18 August 2014 in Berlin) was a German physician and anatomist. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1998, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1981. He was noted for his research on the fine structure of connective tissue, the morphology of hormone effects, and embryological and embryotoxic problems, and his research was central in the development of medical research utilising electron microscopy. Hans Georg Baumgarten noted on his death that he was "not only a chair-holder, but a philosopher, humanist, anthropologist, developmental biologist, transdisciplinary scholar and scientist". [SEP] Knowledge 2: East Prussian Regional Museum
The East Prussian Regional Museum () in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony in Germany, was established 1987 on the basis of the East Prussian Hunting Museum () created by forester Hans Loeffke. It documents and commemorates the history, art and culture, but also the landscape and fauna of the former German province of East Prussia. Since spring 2009 the director of the museum is historian Dr. Joachim Mähnert.
Knowledge 1: Hans-Joachim Merker
Hans-Joachim Merker (born 7 October 1929 in Merseburg, died 18 August 2014 in Berlin) was a German physician and anatomist. He was Professor of Anatomy at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1998, and served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1981. He was noted for his research on the fine structure of connective tissue, the morphology of hormone effects, and embryological and embryotoxic problems, and his research was central in the development of medical research utilising electron microscopy. Hans Georg Baumgarten noted on his death that he was "not only a chair-holder, but a philosopher, humanist, anthropologist, developmental biologist, transdisciplinary scholar and scientist". [SEP] Knowledge 2: Karel Halíř
Karel Halíř was born in Hohenelbe, Bohemia (now Vrchlabí, Czech Republic), and studied with Antonín Bennewitz in Prague (1867–73) and with Joseph Joachim in Berlin (1874–76). For the next four years (1876-1879) he was part of the Benjamin BilseKapelle in Berlin. He was concertmaster of the orchestras at Königsberg (1879), Mannheim (1881) and Weimar (1884–94). He first started getting attention as a soloist with his playing of the Bach Double Concerto with Joseph Joachim at the Bach Festival at Eisenach in 1884. In 1893 Halíř took over as concert master with the Berlin opera orchestra, the Königliche Kapelle, and joined the faculty of the Berlin Königliche Hochschule für Musik. At that time he started his own quartet in Berlin with Carl Markees, Adolf Müller, and Hugo Dechert.  Later he also founded a Piano Trio group with his Hochschule colleague Georg Schumann on piano and Hugo Dechert on cello. Halíř became the second violinist of the Joachim Quartet in 1897, joining Joachim, Emanuel Wirth on viola, and Robert Hausmann on cello.

Answer: 1738