Eldenburg (Lenzen)

Eldenburg City of Lenzen (Elbe) Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 50 ″ N , 11 ° 26 ′ 20 ″ E
Height :	17 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.57 km²
Residents :	99 (16 Aug 2018)
Population density :	9 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 26, 2003
Postal code :	19309
Area code :	038792
	Quitzow Tower from Eldenburg Castle

Eldenburg is an inhabited part of the municipality of the city of Lenzen (Elbe) of the Lenzen-Elbtalaue office in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg .

geography

The place is three kilometers northwest of Lenzen (Elbe) and 29 kilometers west-northwest of Perleberg , the seat of the Prignitz district. The neighboring towns are Moor in the north, Zuggelrade and Bochin in the northeast, Klein Sterbitz , Sterbitz and Rudow in the east, Lenzen (Elbe), Ziegelhof and Bäckern in the southeast, Seedorf in the southwest, Breetz in the west, and Polz and Alt Eldenburg in the northwest.

History and sights

The Eldenburg manor was owned by the von Quitzow family from 1465 to 1719 . Around 1600 the moated castle was expanded into a castle that was demolished in 1949. The former dungeon tower called Quitzowturm remained, a late medieval plastered building.

Born in Eldenburg

Walrab von Wangenheim (1884–1947), a German politician ( DHP , NLP ) and member of the Hanoverian Landtag

literature

Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg - Part 1 - Prignitz - A-M . Modifications made by Lieselott Enders . In: Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): Publications of the Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (State Archive Potsdam) - Volume 3 . Founded by Friedrich Beck . Publishing house Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-88372-032-6 , pp. 191 ff .

Web links

Eldenburg in the historical directory of the association for computer genealogy

Individual evidence

^ Office Lenzen-Elbtalaue - Inhabitants and Registration (Ed.): Population figures of the Office Lenzen-Elbtalaue. Deadline: 08/16/2018 . Lenzen (Elbe) August 16, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b City of Lenzen (Elbe) - Inhabited parts of the community - Places to live. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on March 30, 2016 .
↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[1] Office Lenzen-Elbtalaue - Inhabitants and Registration (Ed.): Population figures of the Office Lenzen-Elbtalaue. Deadline: 08/16/2018 . Lenzen (Elbe) August 16, 2018.

[SBB-2] City of Lenzen (Elbe) - Inhabited parts of the community - Places to live. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of Brandenburg, accessed on March 30, 2016 .

[DE_BFN-Karten-3] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )