Altona (Dötlingen)

Altona municipality Dötlingen Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 33 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	22 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	24  (Jun 30, 2012)
Postal code :	27801
Area code :	04432
Location of Altona in Lower Saxony
Watermill at the Altonaer Mühlbach

Altona is a district of the municipality of Dötlingen in the Lower Saxony district of Oldenburg in the Wildeshauser Geest Nature Park .

The district, located four kilometers southeast of the center of Dötlingen and on the northern border of the city of Wildeshausen , has 24 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2012). Altona is on the L 872 . The federal highway 213 runs south and the federal freeway 1 runs a short distance north.

The approximately eleven kilometer long Altonaer Mühlbach (also Altonaer Mühlenbach , 1584 Penningsbäke ), a right tributary of the Hunte , crosses the district.

history

Altona used to be a strategically important place due to its location. This is where the Flämische Strasse intersected with the Stedinger Weg and the old Frisian Heerstrasse . Therefore, around 1562, Count Anton I had a water mill (the “Penning mule”) built here with a customs post.

Web links

Commons : Altona  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of the municipality of Dötlingen - list of the districts in Dötlingen ( memento of the original from February 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.