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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. |