Arendsee () is a town in the

Altmarkkreis Salzwedel Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Gifhorn, Uelzen, Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony, and the districts of Stendal and Börde (district). History Th ...

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. It is named after the lake

Arendsee Arendsee () is a town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is named after the lake Arendsee (lake), Arendsee, located north of the town. Geography The municipality is located in the Altmark region and on the southern bank o ...

, located north of the town.

Geography

The municipality is located in the

Altmark :''See German tanker Altmark for the ship named after Altmark and Stary Targ for the Polish village named Altmark in German.'' The Altmark (; English: Old MarchHansard, ''The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time ...'', Vo ...

region and on the southern bank of the Arendsee lake, the largest and deepest natural lake in Saxony-Anhalt.

Subdivisions

The town Arendsee consists of Arendsee proper (including the ''Ortsteile'' Genzien and Gestien) and the following ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Arendsee (Altmark)
21 January 2020. * Binde (incl. Ritzleben) *

Fleetmark Fleetmark is a village and a former municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the ...

(incl. Lüge, Molitz, Störpke) * Höwisch * Kaulitz * Kerkau (incl. Lübbars) * Kläden (incl. Kraatz) * Kleinau (incl. Dessau, Lohne) * Leppin (incl. Harpe, Zehren) * Mechau * Neulingen * Rademin (incl. Ladekath) * Sanne-Kerkuhn (Sanne and Kerkuhn) * Schrampe (incl. Zießau) * Thielbeer (incl. Zühlen) * Vissum (incl. Kassuhn, Schernikau) * Ziemendorf

History

The locality and the lake were first mentioned in the

Royal Frankish Annals The ''Royal Frankish Annals'' (Latin: ''Annales regni Francorum''), also called the ''Annales Laurissenses maiores'' ('Greater Lorsch Annals'), are a series of annals composed in Latin in Carolingian Francia, recording year-by-year the state of ...

in 822. In 1184

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founded a

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nunnery A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The term is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican Comm ...

in Arendsee while the then competent

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, Tammo (d. 1188), endowed it with estates. The former municipalities Binde, Höwisch, Kaulitz, Kerkau, Kläden, Kleinau, Leppin, Neulingen, Sanne-Kerkuhn, Schrampe, Thielbeer and Ziemendorf were merged into Arendsee on 1 January 2010. The former municipalities Fleetmark, Mechau, Rademin and Vissum were merged into Arendsee on 1 January 2011.

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