The little town, along with several nearby villages, belonged to the castle and formed a Brunswick exclave in what later became Prussian territory.
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The road to Gardelegen still runs in a semi-circle on the embankment of the Ohre.
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In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period it was frequently fought over due to its location between the territories of Brandenburg, Magdeburg and Brunswick.
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Calvörde formed a key strongpoint in this regard because it lay at the southern end of the formerly impassable marshy forests of the Drömling at a point that used to be the key crossing of the Ohre river that on the road from Brunswick to the southern Altmark.
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