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Location of the town of Gardelegen within Altmarkkreis Salzwedel district
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| Country | Germany |
| State | Saxony-Anhalt |
| District | Altmarkkreis Salzwedel |
| Mayor | Konrad Fuchs (SPD) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 632.24 km2 (244.11 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 43 m (141 ft) |
| Population | 23,971 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 38 /km2 (98 /sq mi) |
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| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | SAW |
| Postal code | 39638 |
| Area codes | 03907, 039056, 039085, 039087, 039088 |
| Website | www.gardelegen.info |
Gardelegen (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaʁdəleːɡən]) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Milde, 20 m. W. from Stendal, on the main line of railway Berlin-Hanover.
It has a Roman Catholic and three Evangelical churches, a hospital, founded in 1285, and a high-grade school. There are considerable manufactures, notably agricultural machinery and buttons, and its beer has a great repute. Gardelegen was founded in the 10th century (first named 1196), and was for a long time the seat of a line of counts. In 1358 Gardelegen became a city of the Hanse. It suffered considerably in the Thirty Years' War, and in 1775 was burned by the French. On the neighboring heath Margrave Louis I. of Brandenburg gained, in 1343, a victory over Otto the Mild of Brunswick.
On 13 April 1945, 1016 concentration camp prisoners were killed by the Nazis in the Isenschnibbler Feldscheune. Today this area is the site of a memorial for the dead.
At the height of the cold war, a USAF RB-66 recoinassance aircraft was shot down by Soviet fighters near the town on 10 March 1964. Her crew bailed out and was rescued and eventually handed back to West-Berlin by Soviet forces.[2]
Gardelegen is twinned with:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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