Böddenstedt is a village in the municipality of

Suderburg Suderburg is a municipality in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 11 km southwest of Uelzen. Suderburg is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Suderburg. Municipal d ...

in the collective municipality of

and lies in southwest of the district of

Uelzen Uelzen (; officially the ''Hanseatic Town of Uelzen'', German: ''Hansestadt Uelzen'', , Low German ''Ülz’n'') is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a ...

in the German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

Geography

The farming and handicrafts village of Böddenstedt lies between

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

and

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

in the middle of the

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (german: Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen a ...

. The ''Stahlbach'' stream – formerly also called the ''Böddenstedter Aue'' – flows along the southern edge of the village from west to east and is accompanied by fish ponds and a flat countryside of meadows and pasture. Böddenstedt has the form of a ''

Haufendorf A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the name ...

'' or irregularly nucleated village. File:Reetdachhaus-Böddenstedt.jpg, 1701 thatched timber-framed house in ''Mühlenstraße'' File:Wassermühle-Böddenstedt2.jpg, Water mill converted into a house File:Mühlenteich-Böddenstedt.JPG, The millpond File:Heidehof-Böddenstedt2.jpg, Typical heath farm in Böddenstedt (from 1800)

Personalities

* Klaus Wiswe (born 30 October 1955 in Böddenstedt), German politician (CDU), full-time chief executive (''Landrat'') of the district of

Celle Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Lü ...

, chairman of the Lower Saxon District Committee (''Niedersächsischer Landkreistag'')

References

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