Burgwedel 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 ...

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. It is situated approximately 15 km northeast 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 ...

. It has a population of around 20,200.

Politics and Administration

Burgwedel consists of the following boroughs: * Engensen * Fuhrberg * Großburgwedel (administrative seat) * Kleinburgwedel * Oldhorst * Thönse * Wettmar

Religion

Protestant (Evangelical-Lutheran) Church

Roman Catholic Church

The members of the Roman Catholic St. Paul's parish community Burgwedel make up the second largest religious community of the town. St. Paul's belongs to the

diocese of Hildesheim The Diocese of Hildesheim (Latin: ''Dioecesis Hildesiensis'') is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. Founded in 815 as a missionary diocese by King Louis the Pious, his son Louis the German appointed the famous former archbishop of Rheim ...

, which is part of the

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of Hamburg.

Further Christian Communities

Education and Culture

Schools

Libraries

Economics

Companies

The headquarter of

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, a major drugstore chain, is located in Burgwedel.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

* Carl Graf von Alten (1764-1840), Hanoverian-British general and statesman *

Otto Wöhler Otto Wöhler (12 July 1894 – 5 February 1987) was a German general in the Wehrmacht and a war criminal during World War II. He rose to a corps and army level commander. Wöhler was implicated in the Einsatzgruppe activities while serving as C ...

(1894-1987), General of the Wehrmacht and war criminal * Valmir Sulejmani (born 1996), German footballer

Notable residents

* Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt, (b 1937), Member of the

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* Willi Reimann, (b 1949), former footballer and football coach * Gundis Zámbó, (b 1966), actress * Mike Hanke, (b 1983), footballer * Christian Wulff, (b 1959), politician (CDU), former President of Germany, Federal President, former Lower Saxony Minister President * Bettina Wulff, (b 1973), wife of Christian Wulff * Gerald Asamoah, (b 1978), footballer * Dieter Schatzschneider, (b 1958), soccer player * Hermann Bahlsen, (1927-2014), bakery factory manufacturer

References

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