Oldenstadt

Oldenstadt City of Uelzen Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 36 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 17 ″ E
Height :	45 m
Residents :	3989
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	29525
Area code :	0581
Location of Oldenstadt in Lower Saxony

Oldenstadt is a district of the Hanseatic city of Uelzen in the Lower Saxony district of Uelzen .

history

Until 1959, the seat of the district administration was in Oldenstadt. This made Oldenstadt one of the smallest district seats in Germany.

Geography and transport links

The district lies east of the core area of Uelzen. The former monastery church of Oldenstadt in its center is considered to be the oldest building in the city.

Exterior view of the former monastery church in Oldenstadt

The Wipperau flows through the town , the Elbe Lateral Canal runs past the western edge of the town and the Oldenstädter See lake to the north .

Oldenstädter See

The B 191 runs on the southern outskirts and the B 493 to the southeast.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

Carl von Oldershausen (1816–1884), former Lord Mayor of Erfurt
Gustav Albrecht (1864–1963), administrative lawyer
Albrecht von Massow (1879–1953), Major General in the Air Force
Gisela Boeckh von Tzschoppe (1887–1981), sculptor
Theodor Laasch (1894–1956), Lutheran theologian and from 1936 to 1956 regional superintendent of the Calenberg district of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Hanover

Other personalities

Heinrich Theodor Gustav Albrecht (* 1828; † 1878 in Oldenstadt), politician from the Albrecht family

literature

OLD TOWN City of Uelzen. Former Klosterkirche Johannes dT In: Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler . Bremen - Lower Saxony. Munich / Berlin 1992, p. 1033 f.
Gerhard Osten: 1000 years of Oldenstadt. Historical-geographical study of the municipality of Oldenstadt and early Ullessen . Municipality of Oldenstadt, 1972 (Uelzener contributions; 4)

Individual evidence

↑ Oldenstädter See

[1] Oldenstädter See