BERGEDORF, a town of Germany, in the territory of Hamburg, on the river Bille, Tom. S.E. of Hamburg. Pop. (1933) 19,481. It produces vegetables and fruit for the Hamburg markets, and has manufactures of glass, asbestos and enamel. It received civic rights in 1275, belonged to Lubeck and Hamburg conjointly from. 1420 to 1868, and in the latter year was pur chased by Hamburg.