Moisburg

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '  N , 9 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Harburg
Joint municipality :	Hollenstedt
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.25 km 2
Residents:	1891 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	168 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	21647, 21279
Area code :	04165
License plate :	WL
Community key :	03 3 53 025
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	On Damm 5 21647 Moisburg
Website :	www.moisburg.de
Mayor :	Hans-Jürgen Steffens (VWGM)
Location of the municipality of Moisburg in the Harburg district

Moisburg is a municipality in the Harburg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Moisburg is located northwest of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park on the Este . The municipality belongs to the joint municipality of Hollenstedt , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Hollenstedt .

Neighboring communities

	Buxtehude	Elstorf
		Appel
Regesbostel	Hollenstedt

Community structure

Moisburg, Appelbeck and Podendorf as well as the Ruhmannshof homestead belong to the municipality of Moisburg.

history

"That Ambt Meusseburg" (1600)

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1322. The watermill on the Este, documented around 1379, is now a mill museum .

The area around Moisburg originally belonged to the Grafschaft Stade until Duke Otto was enfeoffed with the area for the first time in 1236.

Moysburg (1654) by Matthäus Merian in the

Wikisource: Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg  - Sources and full texts

Moisburg belonged to the Moisburg office until it was dissolved in 1859 , to the Tostedt office until 1885 , to the Harburg district until 1932 and since then to the Harburg district .

politics

Municipal council

The local council from Moisburg is composed of 11 councilors.

• SPD 2 seats
• VWGM 9 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)

mayor

The honorary mayor is Hans-Jürgen Steffens.

coat of arms

Blazon : split by silver and blue. On the right a red castle tower, on the left a silver bar covered with three red pole strips.

Culture and sights

Museums

• Mühlenmuseum Moisburg , branch of the open-air museum on Kiekeberg

music

• Music School Hollenstedt & Environment e. V.
• Moisburger Wind Quartet

Field stone church in Moisburg

Buildings

• Moisburg official mill
• Office building Moisburg
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Moisburg, built around 1200, with an altar cross from the 14th century and pulpit, altar and baptismal stand from 1639

Sports

The MTV Moisburg e. V. is the popular sports club in the municipality of Moisburg, there is also the Moisburg von 1861 e. V. The first men's soccer team of MTV Moisburg has been playing in the Lüneburg regional league since the 2010/2011 season.

Regular events

• The annual pottery market takes place on the second weekend in May.
• The traditional maypole erection takes place on May 1st of each year.
• Every two years there is a community festival of the Moisburg parish.
• The Moisburger Schützenfest takes place every year on the third weekend in June.

societies

• Association of the volunteer fire brigade Moisburg e. V.
• MTV Moisburg e. V.
• Schützenverein Moisburg and surroundings from 1861 e. V.
• Culture Point Moisburg e. V.
• Music School Hollenstedt and Surroundings e. V.
• Moisburg miner train
• Oldtimer Trekkerfreunde Moisburg e. V.
• Moisburger Wind Quartet

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• It is approx. 5 km to Autobahn 1 , which is in the south of the municipality.

media

Twice a week (Wednesdays and Saturdays) the Neue Buxtehuder is distributed to all households. The Hollenstedter Tageblatt is delivered once a week.

education

• Elementary school Moisburg

Personalities

Born in Moisburg

• Wilhelm Poeck (born December 29, 1866 - † July 7, 1933 in Blumenau (Brazil)), Low German writer

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. ^ Moisburg municipality
3. ^ Moisburg Church

literature

• Willi Meyne: The former bailiwick Moisburg. Buxtehude, 1936.
• Willi Meyne: The church in Moisburg. Buchholz i. d. N., 1984.
• Erich Tauber: Moisburg our village. 2007.

Web links

Commons : Moisburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Moysburg in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Website of the joint community
• www.moisburger-blaeserquartett.de
• Protestant Church Moisburg . Europeana. Retrieved November 25, 2014.