Klötze () is a town in the

Altmarkkreis Salzwedel Altmarkkreis Salzwedel is a district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts Gifhorn, Uelzen, Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony, and the districts of Stendal and Börde (district). History Th ...

(district), in

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...

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. It is situated approximately 20 km northwest of

Gardelegen Gardelegen (; ) is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Milde (river), Milde, 20 m. W. from Stendal, on the main line of railway Berlin-Hanover. History Gardelegen has a Roman Catholic and three Evangelical c ...

, and 35 km northeast of

Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian language, Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth-largest city in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller (Germany), Aller east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the locat ...

. It was mentioned first in 1144 with the name ''Cloetze'', which means a wooden block. In January 2010, with the disbanding of the ''

Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Municipal associations (, , ) are statutory corporations or public bodies created by statute in the German federal states of Bavaria, Saxony, Thuringia, and Schleswig-Holstein. In Baden-Württemberg the term ''stipulated municipal association ...

'' ("collective municipality") of Klötze, the town absorbed 11 former municipalities.Gebietsänderungen vom 01. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2010

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Geography

The town Klötze consists of the following ''Ortschaften'' or municipal divisions:Hauptsatzung der Stadt Klötze
, § 16, 16 October 2019. * Dönitz * Immekath * Jahrstedt *Klötze * Kunrau * Kusey * Neuendorf * Neuferchau * Ristedt * Schwiesau * Steimke *Trippigleben * Wenze

References

Towns in Saxony-Anhalt Altmarkkreis Salzwedel {{AltmarkkreisSalzwedel-geo-stub