BURG, a town of Germany, in Prussian Saxony, 14m. N.E. of Magdeburg. Pop. (1930) 24,785. It belonged originally to the lordship of Querfurt, passed with this to the archbishops of Magdeburg in 1496, and was ceded in 1635 with other portions of the Magdeburg territories to Saxony; in 1687 it was ceded to Brandenburg. It profited by the large influx of industrious French, Palatinate and Walloon refugees at the end of the 17th century. Its cloth and boot manufactures are noteworthy and it also produces asphalt, starch, soap and cardboard.