"My Hometown in Germany" Personal Page by bwk_michael

Gardeelegen is the name of my hometown...where i am born in 1977 and where i lived till the beginning of 1998...my parents still live there and few of my friends as well...i miss it very much...well gardelegen is in Sachsen Anhalt, its a part of East Germany and not far away from Berlin..the next big city would be Magdeburg.
Gardelegen is only small...with around 11.700 people living there....

one of the old gates around Gardelegen

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. 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 wer killed by the Nazis in the Isenschnibbler Feldscheune. Today this area is the site of a memorial for the dead. Gardelegen currently has 11,740 inhabitants, living on 68.00 km² (173 inhabitants per km²).

i used to go there (kindergarten) in 1981-1984
today its a block of very nice flats.

i used to work here after my training as a nurse...1997-1998...looking after a group of 7 kids.

the smalles in Gardelegen...