Langendorf (Elbe)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '  N , 11 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Elbe Valley
Height :	23 m above sea level NHN
Area :	40.87 km 2
Residents:	677 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29484
Area code :	05865
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 014
Community structure:	7 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Elbuferstraße 86 29484 Langendorf
Mayoress :	Margret Deegen
Location of the municipality of Langendorf in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Langendorf is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Langendorf is partly in the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park and mostly in the Lower Saxony Elbe Valley Biosphere Reserve directly on the Elbe (German river kilometer 501). The community belongs to the Elbtalaue community , which has its administrative seat in the city ​​of Dannenberg (Elbe) .

Community structure

The municipality of Langendorf has consisted of seven places or districts since the municipal reform of 1972:

• Fire life
• Flu
• Kacherien (also Cacherien ) district of Langendorf
• Kaltenhof (a part of Mecklenburg until 1945 )
• Laase
• Langendorf
• Pretzetze

Before 1972 Brandleben and Kacherien belonged to the municipality of Langendorf, Grippel and Pretzetze to the municipality of Laase.

The municipality is located in the district of Langendorf, which has grown together with the village of Kacherien to form a single location. The districts of Laase, Grippel and Pretzetze also form a common location.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities Kaltenhof and Laase were incorporated.

politics

The municipality of Langendorf 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 Langendorf consists of nine councilors and has had the following distribution of seats since the 2011 local elections:

• Free voters Langendorf - 6 seats
• Green List Wendland - 3 seats

mayor

Margret Deegen has been the mayor of the municipality since 2011 (elected in November 2011).

Attractions

Church of St. Christinen in Langendorf

The list of monuments in Langendorf (Elbe) contains all the monuments of the municipality of Langendorf (Elbe).

The Protestant church is a neo-classical hall building of brick and was built in the years 1831/1832. A ridge turret from truss located on the west wall. Inside, the surrounding galleries and a pulpit altar are remarkable.

A little north of the village of Brandleben, near Kaltenhof, the remains of the Dömitz railway bridge, built between 1870–1873 and destroyed in the Second World War , can be found .

Between Langendorf and Grippel, on the K 27, on which the Elbe Cycle Path also runs in this section , there is a wooden observation tower , which offers a wide view of the Elbe meadows from its 11 m high observation platform . At the tower there is a rest area with table and benches as well as a barbecue area.

In Langendorf formerly stood Ohm's house , due to its importance as architectural history of Lower Saxony Hall House in two-column construction for Dannenberg (Elbe) translocates was.

There are also numerous pools and ponds in the whole area.

Sports facilities

In the center of the village is the sports field with facilities for athletics and football.

Regular events

At Easter time there is a big Easter fire every year on Easter Sunday in Langendorf. In the district of Cacherien , an Easter fire is traditionally lit the day before during Easter.

The shooting festival takes place two weeks after Pentecost. A march through the village is carried out.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• The long-distance cycle path Hamburg – Schnackenburg runs through the municipality of Langendorf, mostly on or at the Elbe dike.
• The B 191 Uelzen - Ludwigslust runs north past the community.
• The K 27 leads through the districts of Kacherien and Langendorf and provides the connection to the district of Grippel, where it meets the L 256, which , coming from Groß Gusborn in the south of the municipality, runs through the districts of Grippel, Pretzetze and Laase. The districts of Brandleben and Kaltenhof are connected in the north by the K 15 and K 16.
• Local public transport ( ÖPNV ) in the municipality of Langendorf is served by the 1944 bus (Dannenberg - Schnackenburg ).

education

There is a kindergarten (play area) in Langendorf.

societies

Langendorf has several clubs. VFL Langendorf is the sports club and has the football and athletics departments. There is also a fishing, red cross and rifle club and the Langendorfer mandolin orchestra.

Personalities

• Truck Branss (1926–2005), radio and television director, lived and died in Langendorf
• Nicolas Born (1937–1979), writer

Web links

Commons : Langendorf (Elbe)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the municipality of Langendorf on the website of the joint municipality of Elbtalaue

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. ^ Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection: Lower Saxony Environmental Maps
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) 
6. ↑ LANGENDORF. Ev. Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 824
7. ↑ Lookout tower near Langendorf on the Elbe ( memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website Experience nature in Lower Saxony 
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.