Editing Bismark, Germany

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{{Infobox German location
|type              = Stadt
|name              = Bismark
|image_photo       = Bismark Kirche.jpg
|image_caption     = Protestant church in Bismark
|image_coa         = DE-ST 15-0-90-070 Bismark COA.png
|coordinates       = {{coord|52|40|N|11|33|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan        = Bismark (Altmark) in SDL.png
|state             = Sachsen-Anhalt
|district          = Stendal
|elevation         = 55
|area              = 289.43
|postal_code       = 39576, 39579, 39599, 39606, 39624, 39629
|area_code         = 039080, 039083, 039089, 039320, 039324, 039325, 039328
|licence           = SDL
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 15 0 90 070
|website           = [http://www.stadt-bismark.de www.stadt-bismark.de]
|mayor             = Annegret Schwarz<ref>[https://wahlergebnisse.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/bmbm/index.html Bürgermeisterwahlen in den Gemeinden, Endgültige Ergebnisse], [[Statistisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt]]. Retrieved 12 June 2024.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2023&ndash;30
|party             = CDU
}}

'''Bismark''' is a town in the [[Stendal (district)|Stendal district]], in the historic [[Altmark]] region, which is located in the northern part of the state of [[Saxony-Anhalt]], [[Germany]]. It is situated approximately {{convert|22|km|mi|abbr=on}} west of [[Stendal]] in north-eastern Germany.

In the early 12th century, the area then under the rule of [[Albert the Bear]] was settled with peasants migrating from the [[Low Countries]]. The town's name is derived from the nearby river [[Biese]] (after {{langx|nl|bies}} meaning ''[[Juncaceae|rush]] plants''); though it may also refer to the ''bishop's march'', a possession of the [[Bishopric of Havelberg|Havelberg bishops]] mentioned in a 1209 deed issued by the [[House of Ascania|Ascanian]] margrave Albert II. With the Altmark, Bismark was part of the [[Margraviate of Brandenburg]] until it was adjudicated to the Prussian [[Province of Saxony]] after the 1815 [[Congress of Vienna]].

One Herbordus of Bismarck was mentioned holding the office of a ''[[Schultheiß]]'' in Stendal about 1270. His descendant [[Otto von Bismarck]] received the honorary citizenship of Bismark in 1895.

At an administrative reform that became effective on 1 January 2010, the town of Bismark absorbed the former municipalities of [[Badingen]], [[Berkau]], [[Büste]], [[Dobberkau]], [[Garlipp]], [[Grassau, Saxony-Anhalt|Grassau]], [[Hohenwulsch]], [[Holzhausen, Saxony-Anhalt|Holzhausen]], [[Käthen]], [[Kläden (Bismark)|Kläden]], [[Könnigde]], [[Kremkau]], [[Meßdorf]], [[Querstedt]], [[Schäplitz]], [[Schernikau]], [[Schorstedt]] and [[Steinfeld, Saxony-Anhalt|Steinfeld]]. [[Schinne]] was absorbed on 1 September 2010.<ref>[https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Regionales/Gemeindeverzeichnis/Namens-Grenz-Aenderung/2010.html Gebietsänderungen vom 01.01. bis 31.12.2010], [[Statistisches Bundesamt]]</ref> These 19 former municipalities and Bismark proper, that had previously co-operated in the  ''Verwaltungsgemeinschaft'' [[Bismark/Kläden]], now form the 20 ''Ortschaften'' (municipal divisions) of the town.<ref name=Hauptsatzung>[https://www.stadt-bismark.de/de/datei/download/id/5200,1090/hauptsatzung_beschlossen_am_21.11.2018.pdf Hauptsatzung der Einheitsgemeinde Stadt Bismark (Altmark)], November 2018.</ref>

==Notable persons==

[[File:Gedenktafel Amsterdamer Str 10 (Wedd) Elise und Otto Hampel.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Memorial plate in Berlin-Wedding for Elise and Otto Hampel]]
* [[Elise Hampel]], born Lemme (1903-1943); resistance fighter, executed on April 8, 1943 with her husband Otto Hampel in [[Plötzensee|Berlin-Plötzensee]].
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