GARDELEGEN, a town in Prussian Saxony, on the main line of the Berlin-Hanover railway. Pop. Gardelegen was founded in the loth century, and on the neighbouring heath Margrave Louis I. of Brandenburg gained, in 1343, a victory over Otto of Brunswick. It has a Romanesque church, and a hospital founded in 1285. There are considerable manufactures, notably agricultural machinery and buttons, and its beer has a great repute.