Capers (Schnackenburg)

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Capers
City of Schnackenburg
Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ′ 4 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  E
Height : 18 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5 km²
Residents : 126  (2016)
Population density : 25 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 29493
Area code : 05840
Capers (Lüchow-Dannenberg district)
Capers

Location of capers in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Church of Capers

Kapern is a district of the town of Schnackenburg in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

The place is 3 kilometers southwest of Schnackenburg and 26 kilometers northeast of Lüchow (Wendland) , the seat of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. The neighboring towns are Schnackenburg and Lütkenwisch in the northeast, Gummern in the east, Stresow , Klein Wanzer and Aulosen in the southeast, Bömenzien in the south, Nienwalde in the southwest, Gartow in the west, and Holtorf in the northwest.

history

The first written mention of capers comes from the year 1356. Therein the place was recorded under "dat Dorp tu Kopern".

See also

literature

  • Peter P. Rohrlach: Historical Gazetteer for Altmark (Historical Gazetteer Brandenburg, Part XII) - Volume 1 - A-K . In: Publications of the Brandenburg State Main Archives . BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-8305-3743-4 , p. 1139 ff .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Rohrlach: Historical local lexicon for the Altmark (Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg, Part XII) - Volume 1 - A – K. 2018, p. 1140.