Neustadt am Rübenberge ( nds, Niestadt) is a town in the district of Hannover, in

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. At , it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following

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), though only about 45,000 inhabitants live there. It is in a region known as the

Hanoverian Moor Geest The Hanoverian Moor Geest (german: Hannoversche Moorgeest) is a gently rolling landscape between Hanover and Nienburg in the German state of Lower Saxony covering an area of around . It belongs to the raised bog regions of northwest Germany, which ...

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Dudensen Dudensen is a village of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the district of Hanover, Lower Saxony in Germany. It had a population of 530 in 2021. Toponymy In the district Dudensen are the abandoned village An abandoned village is a village th ...

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Mayor

Dominic Herbst (Alliance 90/The Greens) has served as mayor since 2019. He succeeded Uwe Sternbeck (Alliance 90/The Greens), who had been the mayor from 2004.

Twin towns – sister cities

Neustadt am Rübenberge is twinned with: *

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, France (1980)

Notable people

Friedrich Dedekind Friedrich Dedekind (1524 – February 27, 1598) was a German humanist, theologian, and bookseller. Born in Neustadt am Rübenberge, he was educated at the universities of Marburg (1543) and Wittenberg, where he studied theology. At Wittenberg, h ...

(), humanist, theologian and writer *Euricius Dedekind (1554–1619), composer *

Georg Caspar Schürmann Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672 (or early 1673), in Idensen bei Neustadt am Rübenberge – 25 February 1751, in Wolfenbüttel) was a German Baroque composer. His name also appears as Schurmann and in Hochdeutsch as Scheuermann. Life Schürmann st ...

(1672–1751), composer, singer *

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (21 December 1748 – 1 September 1776) was a German poet, known especially for his ballads. Hölty was born in the Electorate of Hanover in the village of Mariensee (today part of Neustadt am Rübenberge) where h ...

(1748–1776), poet in the Göttinger Hainbund. *

Gerhard von Scharnhorst Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813) was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief of the Prussian General Staff, he was noted for his military theories, his reforms of the Pru ...

(1755–1813), Prussian General and army reformer. * Georg Grabenhorst (1899–1997), writer * Robert Enke (1977–2009), footballer, died here * Deniz Aycicek (born 1990), footballer * Sebastian Ernst (footballer) (born 1995), footballer

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