Bendestorf is a municipality in

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. It is situated ca. 30 km south of

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and belongs to the Landkreis (district) Harburg and the ''

Samtgemeinde A ''Samtgemeinde'' (; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of municipalities, equivalent to the '' Ämter'' in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenb ...

'' of

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. The first mentioning of Bendestorf dates back to the year 970. The current population ist approximately 2000. In the post-war era Bendestorf was well known for its film-studios where movies starring

Hildegard Knef Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born ...

(a.k.a.

Hildegard Neff Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (; 28 December 19251 February 2002) was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years Hildegard Knef was born ...

) and other famous German actors were produced.

Sights

* Th
Makens-Huus
on Poststraße, dating back to 1640 houses th

and th
Filmmuseum
which is dedicated to the local postwar German movie production.

(Thiemann-barn)

(water mill) * Hünengrab (giant's grave), a stone age graveyard from the

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

2500 BC

References

External links

* Harburg (district) {{Harburg-geo-stub