Wunstorf () is a town in the district of Hanover, 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 Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. It is situated approximately 22 km west of

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 ...

. The following localities belong to the town of Wunstorf: Blumenau (with Liethe), Bokeloh, Großenheidorn, Idensen (with Idensermoor and Niengraben), Klein Heidorn, Kolenfeld, Luthe, Mesmerode,

Steinhude Steinhude is a village in the borough of Wunstorf in Hanover Region in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is a tourist resort on the southern shore of Lake Steinhude. Once a small, quiet fishing village, today Steinhude is well known as a recre ...

, and Wunstorf. The town gave its name to nearby

Wunstorf Air Base Wunstorf Air Base is a German Air Force military airfield (air base), located south-southwest of Neustadt am Rübenberge and north-northwest of Wunstorf in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wunstorf Air Base is the home to Air Transport Wing 62 (), a unit o ...

of the German Air Force. To the west of the city, Steinhude and Großenheidorn are located on the shores of Lake Steinhuder Meer.

Demography

* 1830 – c. 1,910 * 1840 – c. 2,300 * 1871 – 2,455 * 1885 – 2,963 * 1905 – 4,523 * 1949 – 11,610 (of this 3,490 were refugees and displaced persons) * 1998 – 40,848 * 2000 – 41,474 * 2005 – 42,215 * 2010 – 41,244

Local council

The local elections on September 11, 2016, had the following results: *

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...

: 16 seats * CDU: 13 seats *

Alliance '90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...

: 6 seats * FDP: 2 seats * AfD: 4 seats * Fraktionslos:(without party) 1 seat

Transport

Wunstorf has 2 exits on motorway A 2. Wunstorf railway station has 4 trains per hour to Hanover (a mix of local and regional trains), and 2 trains per hour each to

Minden Minden () is a middle-sized town in the very north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the greatest town between Bielefeld and Hanover. It is the capital of the district (''Kreis'') of Minden-Lübbecke, which is part of the region of Detm ...

and Nienburg. The local bus network is designed to allow connections with trains to/from Hanover.
The nearest commercial airport is the

Hannover Airport Hannover Airport is the international airport of Hanover, capital of the German state of Lower Saxony. The ninth largest airport in Germany, it is in Langenhagen, north of the centre of Hanover. The airport has flights to European metropo ...

about 25 km via motorways A2 and A352.

Twin towns – sister cities

Wunstorf is twinned with: * Flers, France *

Wolmirstedt Wolmirstedt () is a town in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is located 14 km north of Magdeburg, on the river Ohre. The town Wolmirstedt consists of Wolmirstedt proper and the ''Ortschaften'' (municipal divisions) Elbeu, F ...

, Germany

Notable people

Polykarp Leyser IV Polykarp Leyser IV (4 September 1690 in Wunstorf – 7 April 1728 in Helmstedt) was a German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, physician, lawyer and historian. He was the son of Polykarp Leyser III, the great-grandson of Polykarp Leyser II an ...

(1690–1728), Protestant theologian, philosopher, physician, jurist and historian *

Joost Schmidt Joost Schmidt (Wunstorf, 5 January 1893 - Nürnberg, 2 December 1948) was a German typographer, a teacher or master at the Bauhaus, and later a professor at the College of Visual Arts, Berlin. He was a visionary typographer and graphic designer w ...

(1893–1948), typographer, painter and teacher at the Bauhaus *

Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir '' Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful businessman and ...

(1895–1998), writer * Andreas Spengler (born 1947), psychiatrist and psychotherapist * Heinz-Joachim Barchmann (born 1950), politician (SPD), Member of Bundestag since 2009

Gallery

Georgstraße 1 Wunstorf.jpg, Wunstorf Fachwerk in Wunstorf IMG 8191.JPG, Wunstorf Steinhude Friedenseiche.jpg, Steinhude (Peace oak) Friedenseiche

References

Hanover Region {{Hanover-geo-stub