| override_editor, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition…
“ GARDELEGEN (formerly Gardeleben and Gardleben) , the chief town of a circle in the government district of Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony, is situated on the right bank of the Milde, 28 miles N.N.W. of Magdeburg The inhabitants are employed in agriculture, linen and woollen manufacture, button-making, calico-printing, and brewing. The chief buildings are the hospital founded in 1285, and the higher borough school. The population in 1875 was 6389. ”
