Damnatz

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Damnatz
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Damnatz highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality : Elbe Valley
Height : 14 m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.31 km 2
Residents: 297 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 18 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29472
Area code : 05865
License plate : DAN
Community key : 03 3 54 003
LOCODE : DE DNJ
Community structure: 5 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Achter Höfe 37
29472 Damnatz
Website : www.damnatz-elbtalaue.de
Mayor : Torsten Schulz
Location of the Damnatz community in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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Damnatz (pronunciation: [ damˈnaːt͡s ], stressed on the second syllable with a long a ) is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Damnatz is located in the Lower Saxony Elbe Valley Biosphere Reserve directly on the Elbe . The community belongs to the Elbtalaue community , which has its administrative seat in the city of Dannenberg (Elbe) .

Community structure

The municipality of Damnatz has existed since the municipal reform of 1972 from the following five districts.

  • Barnitz
  • Damnatz
  • Jasebeck
  • Cameroon
  • Land set

In addition, there are two residential areas in the Jasebeck and Uhlenhorst residential areas.

Before 1972 Barnitz and Cameroon belonged to the Damnatz municipality; Jasebeck and Uhlenhorst to Landsatz.

history

Old names of Damnatz are 1330/50 enen hof in der lantwere Domnitze, 1348 vor teyn rode landes to domnatze, 1450/51 Dampnatze, Damnatze, ca.1710 Damatz, 1858 Damnaze, the church village on the Elbe and 1939 Damnatz. The place name is of Slavic origin. Two different basic forms are possible for the name interpretation. One possibility is "Domanici" for people, descendants, subjects. The second interpretation is "Dab`nica" for place on oak trees, oak groves.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the neighboring municipality of Landsatz was added.

politics

Summer morning on the Elbe in Damnatz

The municipality of Damnatz belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

As a result of the 2011 local elections, the Damnatz municipality consists of a councilwoman and six councilors, all from the Damnatz voter community.

mayor

Mayor of Damnatz is Torsten Schulz, who was elected on September 11, 2011.

Culture and sights

Half-timbered church with churchyard
"French grave" at the church
Originally preserved courtyard (18th century ff) in the main town

Theaters and museums

Damnatz is home to the Damnatz sculpture garden , which was founded in 1994 by the artist couple Monika Müller-Klug and Klaus Müller-Klug with the support of the Foundation for Sculpture . The site of the sculpture garden is a former parish garden located directly on the Elbe. Until 2012, 30 large sculptures by 10 different artists stood on the 10,000 square meter site. A collection from the fields of sculpture, painting and installation is being created in a former barn converted into an exhibition and event space. The building is used as a location for art exhibitions, concerts and readings at regular intervals.

Since February 2011, music, cabaret and cabaret events have been presented in the Damnatz cultural tennis court , as well as film screenings (rarely seen films), lectures on various topics (science, literature) and art exhibitions.

music

Every year in July the open-air "D-MOVE Damnatz Rockt" takes place in Damnatz. The name is derived from "D" for Damnatz and "Move" for moving. The event attracts numerous visitors every year. All genre classics from rock and metal are played .

Buildings

In the main town there is a small half-timbered church from 1617. It has a single-manual organ. The troop of Napoleonic soldiers who holed up in the church in 1813 is legendary. Bullet holes from this period are still there.

The writer Nicolas Born is buried in the Damnatz cemetery. His grave is adorned with a sculpture by the sculptor Klaus Müller-Klug .

The list of monuments in Damnatz contains all the monuments of the Damnatz community.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

  • The biogas plant fable produced since 2001 primarily from beet, onion, potato and other waste heat for the next Betreiberhof also renewable electricity that is fed into the public grid.
  • Since 2001, the silk biogas plant has been generating heat and electricity using amine scrubbing, purified biomethane for a biogas filling station and for feeding into the natural gas network.

traffic

The B 191 Dannenberg - Ludwigslust runs about three kilometers south of the main town and also touches the Damnatz community west of Kaltenhof . The Elbe Cycle Path from the Riesengebirge to Cuxhaven leads directly on or on the Elbe dike through the community. Damnatz and districts such as Cameroon have various accommodation facilities and a restaurant.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
  2. ↑ http://www.umweltkarten-niedersachsen.de/GlobalNetFX_Umweltkarten/
  3. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on January 26, 2016 ; accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 231 .
  5. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to Section 10 (1) NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 87 KB)
  6. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325 ( PDF ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ); 200 KB)
  7. ↑ Kulturtenne Damnatz e. V. Accessed July 30, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Fabel biogas plant
  9. ↑ Silk biogas plant
  10. ↑ Silk organic investment concept