Karwitz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Karwitz (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 1'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Elbe Valley
Height :	33 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.65 km 2
Residents:	732 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29481
Area code :	05861
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 012
Address of the municipal administration:	Tannenweg 15 29481 Karwitz
Mayor :	Horst Harms ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Karwitz in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Karwitz is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony and part of the Elbtalaue municipality with its seat in Dannenberg.

geography

Geographical location

Karwitz lies to the west of the town of Dannenberg (Elbe), embedded in the moraine landscape of the Drawehn ; the community area rises between 32 m and 110 m above sea level.

Community structure

Since the municipal reform of 1972, the municipality of Karwitz has consisted of the seven districts listed below. In addition, there are five residential spaces at Alt-Pudripp, Karwitz train station, Lebbien farm, Thunpadel mill and Zieleitz. The former forest settlement Parpar has been deserted since it was abandoned in the 1970s .

• Dragahn
• Gamehlen
• Karwitz
• Lenzen (capital of the municipality)
• Nausea
• Tuna padel
• Powderipp

Residential places:

• Alt Pudripp
• Karwitz train station
• Lebbien
• Mill Thunpadel
• Target time

Before 1972, the Karwitz train station, the Lebbien court, the Thunpadel mill and Gamehlen belonged to the Thunpadel municipality; Alt-Pudripp zu Pudripp as well as Dragahn, Lenzen, Nausen and Zieleitz to the municipality of Karwitz.

history

Modernized hall houses in the old village center of Karwitz

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities of Pudripp and Thunpadel were incorporated.

politics

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

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Karwitz consists of nine councilors and has had the following distribution of seats since the local elections in 2006:

• CDU - 5 seats
• Green List Wendland - 2 seats
• SPD - 1 seat
• Green - 1 seats

mayor

The mayor of Karwitz is Horst Harms from the CDU (re-elected on November 14, 2006).

Culture and sights

Chapel in the Lenzen district

The list of monuments in Karwitz includes all the monuments of the municipality of Karwitz.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road traffic

The B 191 Uelzen - Dannenberg runs through the districts of Pudripp and Karwitz and ensures the transport links to the basic center of Dannenberg as well as to the middle center of Uelzen.

Rail transport

The Uelzen – Dannenberg railway line running through the municipality has been closed. The former Karwitz train station is about 2 km southeast of the main town. About five kilometers west of the main town in the district of Pudripp is the former Pudripp train station.

Web links

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

• Information about the municipality of Karwitz on the website of the joint municipality
• Karwitz gets the village club out on September 14, 2017 on ndr.de

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. ↑ Parpar 2006. In search of a forgotten village ( [1] )
3. ^ 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 GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 231 .
4. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 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 remove then this note .; 87 kB) 
5. ↑ 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 the original from July 25, 2011 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 note .; 200 kB)