STENDAL, a town of the Prussian monarchy, capital of the Altmark in Saxony, in a fertile valley on the Uchte, near the left bank of the Elbe, 35 miles N. of Magdeburg. It is walled and entered by five gates; and it contains, among other buildings, a fine cathedral of the fifteenth century, four other Protestant churches, a Roman Catholic church, with numerous towers, a gymnasium, and an orphan hospital. Woollen cloth is manufactured here; and there is an active trade in linen. Stendal was at one time the residence of the margraves of Brandenburg. Winckelmann the antiquary was born here. Pop. 7484.