Neukloster (Buxtehude)

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City of Buxtehude
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 8 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1829
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 21614
Area code : 04161
Neukloster (Lower Saxony)
New monastery

Location of Neukloster in Lower Saxony

Neukloster ( Low German Neeklooster ) is a district of Buxtehude in the Lower Saxony district of Stade .

geography

The place is west of the core town of Buxtehude and east of the Buxtehude district of Hedendorf on the B 73 .

To the south of the village is the Neukloster Forst .

The eastern part of Neukloster is also called Heitmannshausen .

history

Neukloster takes its name from the Benedictine convent of St. Maria and Johannes Evangelist , which was founded in Neuenkirchen in 1274 and moved here in 1286. In contrast to the Old Monastery , it was called the New Monastery .

Neukloster was incorporated on July 1, 1972.

In Hedendorf and Neukloster there are still local councils with local mayors elected from their midst, in the other localities of Buxtehude there are local councilors who are supposed to represent the interests of the citizens from the localities in the city council and to the city administration.

Culture and sights

Folk festivals

  • The largest Whitsun market in northern Germany takes place in Neukloster every year, and the busy B 73 is completely closed over Whitsun .
  • Every year on Thanksgiving Sunday, the harvest festival takes place in the parish garden of the St. Marien Church in Neukloster. The organizer is the Trachtenverein Neukloster from 1989 .

Sports

The football club VSV Hedendorf / Neukloster has been playing in the sixth class Lüneburg regional league since the 2019/20 season .

Infrastructure and traffic

traffic

The busy B 73 leads through Neukloster. To the north there is a connection to the A 26 .

The place also has a train station that is connected to the Hamburg S-Bahn line S3, which runs in the direction of Stade and Pinneberg .

Public facilities

There is a primary school in Neukloster.

See also

Web links

Commons : Neukloster  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ monastery database