Luckau (Wendland)

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Luckau (Wendland)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Luckau (Wendland) highlighted

Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 3'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality : Lüchow (Wendland)
Height : 22 m above sea level NHN
Area : 22.23 km 2
Residents: 557 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29487
Area code : 05843
License plate : DAN
Community key : 03 3 54 016
LOCODE : DE truck
Community structure: 10 districts
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Lüchower Strasse 13 a
29459 Clenze
Location of the municipality of Luckau (Wendland) in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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Luckau (Wendland) is a village or a municipality in the south of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the joint community Lüchow (Wendland) .

Luckau is one of the Rundanger villages to be found in Wendland . The name of the place comes from the Slavic lauck and means leek or onion field.

geography

Geographical location

The place is in Wendland about ten kilometers southwest of the district town of Lüchow (Wendland) . The southern municipal boundary forms the state border between Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

Community structure

The Rundlingsdorf Köhlen on a map from 1830

The municipality of Luckau has the following districts:

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities of Beesem, Bülitz, Köhlen, Kremlin, Nauden, Püggen, Steine ​​and Zeetze were incorporated.

politics

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

Former watermill in the Zeetze district

Religions

St. Johannis Church in Zeetze (Lüchow-Dannenberg)

In the community there are the Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Zeetze and Bülitz with the Luckau chapel community. Until the beginning of the millennium, they shared a pastoral office in Bülitz with the parish of Satemin . Today the parishes are linked to the clerical office in Clenze. The three municipalities form a working group in order to work closely with one another.

The villages of Köhlen and Kremlin belong to the Meuchefitz parish , which is linked to the coastal parish and other parishes in a working group and a common parish office.

Culture and sights

The list of architectural monuments in Luckau (Wendland) includes all the architectural monuments of the municipality of Luckau.

economy

The Vogler Fleisch company, headquartered in the Steine ​​district, was one of the largest employers in the region and one of the largest slaughterhouses in Germany. After the bankruptcy in 2017, the company in Steine ​​was closed and around 100 employees lost their jobs. The Luckau community lost its by far largest business tax payer due to the bankruptcy. In October 2018 the municipal council decided to hold talks with the neighboring municipalities of Wustrow (Wendland) and Clenze about a merger, as the municipality was no longer able to act due to the lack of trade tax income.

Web links

Commons : Luckau (Wendland)  - 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. ^ 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. 230 .
  3. ↑ 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nls.niedersachsen.de
  4. ↑ 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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  5. ↑ Pig: The ten largest slaughterhouses in Germany , agrarheute.com, January 2, 2015
  6. ↑ Insolvency: Vogler Fleisch am Ende , fleischwirtschaft.de, February 14, 2017
  7. ↑ The communities in Lüchow-Dannenberg are also dependent on property tax , Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, January 23, 2018