Gardelegen, a town of Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt, on the right bank of the Milde, 20 m. W. from Stendal, on the main line of railway Berlin-Hanover. With an area of 20,447 km² and a population of 2. ... Stendal is a city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. ...

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 Gardlegen 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 343, a victory over Otto the Mild of Brunswick. The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of todays Germany, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ... 1775 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

On 13 April 1945, 1016 concentration camp prisoners wer killed by the Nazis in the Isenschnibbler Feldscheune. Today this area is the site of a memorial for the dead. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... On April 13, 1945 (less than a month from the end of the Second World War), German SS and Luftwaffe troops, retreating from the Allied advance, murdered 1016 political and military prisoners near the German town of Gardelegen. ...

Gardelegen has currently 11.740 inhabitants, living on 68,00 km² (173 inhabitants per km²).

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Encyclopædia Britannica, the 11th edition The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is perhaps the most famous edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...