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STENDAL , a See also:town of See also:Germany, in the See also:province of Prussian See also:Saxony, picturesquely situated on the Uchte, 70 M. ' W. of See also:Berlin on the See also:main See also:line of railway to See also:Hanover'and at the junction of lines to See also:Bremen, See also:Magdeburg and See also:Wittenberge. Pop.`(19o5), 23,281. Among the See also:relics of its former importance are the See also:cathedral, built in 1420—1424 (though originally founded in 1188), restored in 1893 and now See also:housing the archaeological collection of the Altmark, the See also:Gothic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:Mary, founded in 1447, a "See also:Roland See also:column" of 1535, and two fortified gateways, dating from the 13th See also:century. The last See also:form the See also:chief remains of the See also:ancient fortifications, the site of which is now mostly occupied by promenades. A See also:monument to the archaeologist Johann See also:Joachim Winckdmann (1717—1768) commemorates his See also:birth in the town. Stendal is the seat. of a large railway workshop, and carries on various branches' of textile See also:industry, besides the manufacture of See also:tobacco, machinery, stoves, See also:gold-See also:leaf, &c. The earliest See also:printing-See also:press in the Altmark was erected here, and published 'an edition of the Sachsenspiegel in 1488 as its first See also:book.
Stendal was founded in 1151 by See also:Albert the See also:Bear, on the site of a Wendish See also:settlement, and soon afterwards acquired a municipal See also:charter. Becoming See also:capital of the Altmark and a frequent imperial See also:residence, it See also:rose to a considerable degree of prosperity, in See also:part recently restored to it by its railway connexions. When the See also:mark was divided in 1258, Stendal became the seat of the See also:elder or Stendal See also:branch. of the See also:house of Ascania, which, however, became See also:extinct in • 1320. The See also:original See also:Wends were gradually
fused with the later See also:Saxons, although the Platea Slavonica, mentioned in 1475, was still distinguished as the See also:Wenden Strasse in 1567. The See also:population still exhibits a marked See also:Slavonic See also:clement.
See G6tze, Urkundliche Geschichte der Stadt Siendal (Stendal, 1873).
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