Suderburg is a municipality in the
district of Uelzen, in
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 ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated approximately 11 km southwest of
Uelzen.
Suderburg is also the seat of the ''
Samtgemeinde
A ''Samtgemeinde'' (; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of municipality, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division ...
'' ("collective municipality")
Suderburg.
Municipal divisions
The parish of ''Suderburg'' consists of Suderburg itself and the following villages that had been independent until the municipal reform in 1972:
Bahnsen,
Böddenstedt,
Hamerstorf,
Hösseringen
Hösseringen is a village in the Samtgemeinde Suderburg, collective municipality of Suderburg and lies southwest of Uelzen in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Geography
Hösseringen lies between Hamburg and Hanover in the middle of the Lünebur ...
,
Holxen and
Räber.
History
The first known written instance of the name was as Sutherburg in 1004.
In 1847, the railway line
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 ...
–
Uelzen–
Lüneburg–
Harburg Harburg may refer to:
Places in Germany
* Harburg (district), Lower Saxony
* Harburg, Bavaria
* Harburg, Hamburg, a borough of Hamburg
** Harburg (quarter), the former Hanoveran city of Harburg upon Elbe, now a quarter of Hamburg
* Harburg-Wilhe ...
–
Wilhelmsburg was opened, and
Suderburg railway station
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 ...
was opened in 1850 and extended in 1859.
In 1957, the villages Graulingen, Oldendorf I and Suderburg were merged into Suderburg.
Notable people
* Sophus Schmidt (1792–1841), Hanoveran liberation fighter, bailiff in Bleckede and landowner in Suderburg
* Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Hillmer (1831–1916), building master
* Karl Hillmer (1869–1944), director of the Wiesenbauschule
* Carsten Kadach (born 1964), former
FIFA
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assistant
Sources
The text includes a translation of part of the
German Wikipedia article.
References
Uelzen (district)
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