Stendal occurs as city inside Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. These are capital of the district Stendal, and unofficial capital of the Altmark. People 38.900 (2001). These are placed Hundred kilometre NW of Berlin and 150 SE of Hanover. It too has the market & the psychiatrical rehabilitation clinic.

It was founded by Albrecht the Bear in the 12th century. It quickly became an significant member of the Hanseatic League. Brilliant churches, a city hall & them left city gates come however proof of that previous wealth.

From either 1949 until German reunification in 1990 Stendal belonged to the German Democratic Republic.

A nom de guerre "Stendhal" of the French creator Marie-Henri Beyle is usually supposed to exist as the court to the German author Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who was natural around Stendal within 1717.

Twinnings

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Sites of interest

Theatre of the Altmark
the locality has a theatre known as [http://www.tda-stendal.de Theater der Altmark, Stendal]. It was founded around 1946 & has always got the particular involvement inside youth and tykes's theatre. Theatrical performances & dance cases come staged, too when concerts, conferences & meetings.

Winckelmann Museum
A [http://www.winckelmann-gesellschaft.de/museum/index.html Winckelmann Museum] is known as fallowing Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the founder of authoritative archaeology. Its holdings include biographic documents, works, designs & diagrams likewise when Greek sculptures or casts, along by having more little nontextual matter from either antiquity. Exhibitions come held on to archeology & a history of art from either a 18th and 19th centuries; there is likewise the modern art museum. A museum is the seat of the [http://www.winckelmann-gesellschaft.de/gesell/index.html Winckelmann-Gesellschaft].

Additionally, a museum has exhibits on to a history & ethnical history of the city of Stendal & of the Altmark dating from either the prehistoric cycle through the front yard's early history best as much as a present. There are exhibits on the Hanseatic League, Romanesque art and local archaeological lesson.

Fire Brigade Museum
A town likewise has a Landesfeuerwehrmuseum (Fire Brigade Museum), showing a development of fire fight & protection from either the leather pail to modern fire truck.

Other
More buildings include a Gothic cathedral, a Town Hall using a statue of Roland and the two medieval town gates. There are too more churches in the area.

Persons
Honorary citizens

Dr. Friedrich Hermann Haacke (1824-1899), who dedicated his life to combat against a cholera epidemics which affected Stendal in the 19th century. the Haacke-Brunnen, a easily inside Sperlingsberg, honours him.

Hans Jütting

Sons and daughters of Stendal

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, a founder of definitive archeology & the history of art. He was innate around Stendal inside 1717, son of the cobbler. He is commemorated per above-above-mentioned museum.

Literature

A French Writer Marie Henri Beyle, who was stationed on this button as a soldier in a period of the Napoleonic Wars, used a false name Stendhal from either 1817 in homage to Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

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