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9 unusual facts about Stendal


Agnes of Bavaria

Agnes of Bavaria, Margravine of Brandenburg-Stendal (1276-1345), a daughter of Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria

Alexander von Knobelsdorff

Alexander Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (13 May 1723, Cunow near Crossen - 10 December 1799, Stendal) was a Prussian field marshal.

Heinersdorf

It was first mentioned in a 1319 document when it was sold by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg to the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Berlin.

John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

The deed was issued on the castle at Werbellin, a village in the Schorfheide area to the west of the monastery.

Otto IV, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal

However, the Lords of Querfurt, who were Burgraves of Magdeburg, also fielded a candidate.

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

Stendal, Indiana

Much of his IHSAA success came at Winslow, coaching fellow Hall of Famer, Dick Farley.

Tempelhof

After Pope Clement V officially abolished the Order of the Temple in 1312, the knights of Saint John (the Johanniter), backed by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, took over the villages of Tempelhof, Mariendorf, and Marienfelde.

Treaty of Arnswalde

The Treaty of Arnswalde was signed on 1 April 1269 between three Brandenburgian margraves, the Ascanians John II, Otto IV and Conrad, and Duke Mestwin II of Pomerelia (Mściwój II) in Arnswalde (then a fortified place in the Brandenburgian New March, now Choszczno, Poland).


Bellingen

Bellingen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Focke-Wulf Ta 152

An early Ta 152 combat occurred on 14 April 1945 when Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke tried to intercept a De Havilland Mosquito over Stendal, but failed to catch up due to engine trouble.

Garz

Groß Garz ("Great Garz") — a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt.

Holzhausen

Holzhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt

Ian Stendal

In the early 1930s, Stendal was a student at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, where he took classes with Paul Tillich and Theodor Adorno.

Jerichow

The city of Jerichow lies on an ancient branch of the Elbe River between Stendal and Genthin, 31 miles ( 50 kilometers ) northeast of Magdeburg.

Leo August Pochhammer

Leo August Pochhammer (25 August 1841, Stendal – 24 March 1920, Kiel) was a Prussian mathematician who was educated in Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1863 under Ernst Kummer.

Losse

Losse, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Germany

Magdeburg-Wittenberge railway

The town of Stendal, which had no rail connection, sought a continuation of the line from Potsdam via Genthin and Stendal to Hamburg.

Magdeburg–Halberstadt Railway Company

In 1867, it obtained the concession for the construction of a line from Berlin via Stendal to Lehrte, known as the Lehrter Bahn (Lehrte Railway).

Max Koffler

After the Fall of the Wall his family moved from Berlin to Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt where he founded his first band Kerosin together with his brother Hanno Koffler in 1994.

Mieszkowice

Founded in 1298 during the Ostsiedlung in Brandenburg, the town was the site of death of the last Ascanian margrave in 1319, a center of the Waldensians movement in the 14th century, and the site of the conclusion of a Franco-Swedish alliance during the Thirty Years' War, which else virtually depopulated the town.

Rolf Herricht

After completion, he went to appear on the stages of theaters in Salzwedel, Stendal, Staßfurt, Güstrow and also in the Kleist Theater in Frankfurt am Oder.

Rossau

Rossau, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Stefan Lehmann

with Andreas E. Furtwängler (ed.s): Alexander der Große – einst in Stendal: Original – Kopie – Fälschung? Halle (Saale) 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-29-9 (Kataloge und Schriften des Archäologischen Museums der Martin-Luther-Universität. Band 2).

Theodoric IV, Landgrave of Lusatia

In 1301 Archbishop Burchard II of Magdeburg sold Theodoric the castles in Droyßig and Burgwerben for 2000 marks of Stendal silver, with the option to buy them back later.

Wust

Wust, Saxony-Anhalt, a village in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Wust-Fischbeck, a municipality in the district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


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