Tangermunde

Tangermunde is a memorable town on the Elbe River in the district of Stendal, in the northeastern piece of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Tangermunde is arranged in the notable Altmark district of the North German Plain, on a frigid terminal moraine, over the left shore of the Elbe. The town's name gets from the mouth of the Tanger tributary. The elevation shields it from floods. Tangermunde can glance back at a thousand-year-long history as of now in 1009 the medieval recorder Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg alluded to a neighborhood swamp chateau, which most likely had been raised in the mid 10^th century amid the standard of King Henry the Fowler at the outskirt with the grounds of the Polabian Slavs joined into the Saxon Marca Geronis.

The town itself was first referenced in a 1275 deed, represented by a progression of vogts reeves, for example, Ruthger von Blumenthal. Because of its positive area, it before long turned into a point where tolls were charged on vessels cruising along the Elbe River just as a living arrangement of the Ascanian margraves of Brandenburg. Margrave John II shrouded his fortune under the ward church, and passed the key to his sibling Otto with the bolt. At the point when the last was held to recover by the natives of Magdeburg in 1278, he utilized the fortune to pay for his discharge.