Diesdorf

Diesdorf is situated in the western Altmark about 5 km east of the border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony which between 1945 and 1990 was part of the inner German border, and about 25 km southwest of Salzwedel. The nearest major settlement in Lower Saxony is Wittingen at a distance of about 10 km . The surrounding countryside is characterised by terminal moraines and sandy soils which are mostly wooded. It has been shaped during the Saale stage of the middle Pleistocene.
Aside from the eponymous village, the municipality consists of the following districts: Abbendorf, Bergmoor, Dankensen, Dülseberg, Haselhorst, Höddelsen, Hohenböddenstedt, Hohengrieben, Lindhof, Mehmke, Molmke, Neuekrug, Peckensen, Reddigau, Schadeberg, Schadewohl, Waddekath, and Wüllmersen, as well as the smaller settlements Forsthof Vier, Kerstenberg, Römke, and Schinkenmühle. Waddekath is located immediately east of the former inner German border.

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