Lunsen

Lunsen municipality Thedinghausen Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 57 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	27321
Area code :	04204
Location of Lunsen in Lower Saxony
Church of St. Cosmas and Damian in Lunsen

Lunsen is a district of the Thedinghausen municipality in the Thedinghausen municipality in the Verden district of Lower Saxony .

geography

location

Lunsen is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Thedinghausen, 1 km east of the core town of Thedinghausen.

Rivers

The Weser flows northeast one kilometer away.

Neighboring districts

Neighboring districts are - clockwise from the north - Werder , Morsum , Holtorf and Thedinghausen.

history

Lunsen was first mentioned in a document in 1250, but the parish of Lunsen was founded in 977 together with the construction of a wooden church. In 1877, the third and thus today's church was built.

On July 1, 1972, the municipality of Holtorf-Lunsen was incorporated into the municipality of Thedinghausen. This moved to the district of Verden.

Infrastructure

Lunsen is on the L 203 state road , which runs from Thedinghausen to Verden (Aller) and crosses the Weser at Groß Hutbergen . From Lunsen, the L 158 also leads over the Weser to Achim .

Otherwise Lunsen is far from the main traffic. The A 27 runs north six kilometers away. The B 215 leading from Rotenburg (Wümme) via Verden (Aller) and Nienburg (Weser) to Minden runs east, twelve kilometers away.

Attractions

• The Protestant Church of St. Cosmas and Damian, a neo-Gothic cross - shaped brick building , dates from 1884 and has a mighty west tower. The furnishings in the wide, vaulted interior come from the time the church was built.

literature

• Lunsen. Ev. Church of St. Cosmas and Damian. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 912

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of the Thedinghausen community , accessed on December 15, 2013
2. ↑ History of the Lunsen Church
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. 266 .

Web links

• Thedinghausen community on the website of the Thedinghausen community
• therein: “31. Holtorf-Lunsen "
• St. Cosmas and Damian in Lunsen
• History of the church in Lunsen