Rätzlingen (Lower Saxony)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Rätzlingen
Rätzlingen (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates: 52 ° 59 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Uelzen
Joint municipality : Roshe
Height : 57 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.49 km 2
Residents: 469 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29590
Area code : 05804
License plate : UE
Community key : 03 3 60 016
Association administration address: Lüchower Strasse 15
29571 Rosche
Mayor : Harald Dammann (community of voters)
Location of the municipality of Rätzlingen in the district of Uelzen
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Rätzlingen is a municipality in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The community of Rätzlingen belongs to the integrated community of Rosche .

History, location, structure

The community was first mentioned in 1032 under the name Restinge .

The place is characterized by farms and part-time businesses. Rätzlingen as a church and school community has largely developed into a residential community. The Rätzlingen primary school was closed in the summer of 2014.

The municipality of Rätzlingen consists only of the village of Rätzlingen and is therefore one of the few municipalities in Lower Saxony that was not merged with other municipalities during the municipality reform in 1972.

administration

Mayor is Harald Dammann (Voting Association Rätzlingen). The municipal council has appointed the mayor of the municipality, Herbert Rätzmann, as the municipality director.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Rätzlingen is in green, a single-towered silver church in front view, at the top flanked by a silver oak leaf placed slightly upwards and a silver cattail with two leaves that is also slightly upwards.

Community partnerships

There is a partnership with the district of Rätzlingen in the city of Oebisfelde-Weferlingen in the Börde district in Saxony-Anhalt .

Culture

The parish includes the chapel communities Riestedt, Stöcken , Hanstedt II and the branch communities Rassau, Schliekau and Gansau. The chapel congregations were legally independent until the end of 2008 and have formed a joint church congregation since 2009. When the parish of Rätzlingen was founded cannot be precisely dated.

Attractions

Personalities

  • Otto Gilbert (1839–1911), librarian and ancient historian
  • Heinrich Schulze (1883–1977), groom, brickworker, local poet. The Dichter-Schulze-Strasse was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Rätzlingen (Lower Saxony)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ↑ Ludwig König: Heinrich Schulze - horse servant and local poet. About the difficulty of rediscovering a writer . In: The Heidewanderer . Local supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Uelzen. Vol. 64 (1988) No. 43, pp. 189-191. Schulze's poems were published in 1913: Heinrich Schulze: collection of poems in High and Low German with serious and cheerful content. Heidjer's homeland sounds . Uelzen 1913. Title page