Penkefitz

Penkefitz City of Dannenberg (Elbe) Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 15 ″  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 27 ″  E
Incorporation :	July 1, 1972
Postal code :	29451
Location of Penkefitz in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
Penkefitz, two-tier hall house from 1798

Penkefitz is a Lower Saxon village in the Hanoverian Wendland , which has been part of the city of Dannenberg (Elbe) since the municipal reform that came into force on July 1, 1972 . The Wurtendorf, characterized by half - timbered houses , is located in the middle of the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park on a dead arm of the Elbe , the so-called Tauben Elbe . Until 1989 Penkefitz was right on the inner-German border .

The Strachauer Rad settlement, which is located directly on the Elbe dike and consists of several farms, belongs to Penkefitz . The two extensive courtyards were particularly hard hit by the Elbe floods in 2002 and 2006 .

Penkefitz became better known through the ARD children's and youth series Penkefitz No. 5 (1982), which takes place in a children's home in Penkefitz.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Dannenberg (Elbe) #Penkefitz

Personalities

• Bernard Fathmann (* 1948), qualified pedagogue and Low German author

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 231 .