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Encyclopedia > Altmark

Altmark is a region in Germany, between Hamburg and Magdeburg, the northern third of Saxony-Anhalt (the districts of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and Stendal).


Landscape


The region is rural and covered with forests. Most important towns are Salzwedel and Stendal.


Events

  • Treaty of Altmark in 1629

Rivers and Lakes

Traffic

Towns

  • Salzwedel
  • Oebisfelde
  • Arendsee
  • Seehausen
  • Diesdorf
  • Beetzendorf
  • Klötze
  • Mieste
  • Gardelegen
  • Kalbe (Milde)
  • Bismark (Saxony-Anhalt)
  • Osterburg
  • Stendal
  • Havelberg
  • Tangermünde
  • Tangerhütte
  • Uchtspringe



  Results from FactBites:
 
Altmark, Germany (203 words)
The Altmark is the low-lying area between the Middle Elbe depression on the east and north-east, the Ohre valley with the Mittelland Canal on the south and the Elbufer-Drawehn Nature Park on the west and northwest.
The light sandy soils of the Altmark are suitable for agriculture and forestry.
The Altmark can be reached on good roads from the Berlin-Magdeburg-Marienborn motorway via Haldensleben (equestrian statue of Roland in Markt; numerous megalithic tombs in Haldensleben Forest) or Wolmirstedt, from the B 5 by way of the bridge over the Elbe at Wittenberge or from the east by way of the Elbe bridge at Tangermünde.
Die Altmark mittendrin (904 words)
The Altmark – covering the North of Saxony-Anhalt – is formed by the rural district of Stendal and the Altmark district Salzwedel.
This is the backdrop against which the development lines for the Altmark as outlined in REK I is to be continued and updated in order to adapt the headline goal and overall concepts to the framework conditions in the current and the foreseeable medium-term period.
The headline goal for the regional development of the Altmark is the formation of a competitive region which – within the frame of an enlarging European Union – is profoundly obliged to the principle of sustainability and combines demographic change with multifaceted aspects of development and innovation.
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