Rehlingen

This article describes the municipality of Rehlingen in Lower Saxony; for other meanings see Rehlingen (disambiguation)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '  N , 10 ° 13'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Amelinghausen
Height :	86 m above sea level NHN
Area :	65.96 km 2
Residents:	737 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21385
Area code :	04132
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 029
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Finkenberg 27 21385 Rehlingen, Germany
Mayor :	Rainer Muhlhausen
Location of the municipality of Rehlingen in the district of Lüneburg

Rehlingen is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Rehlingen is located in the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park on the Lopau , a tributary of the Luhe , between the extensive forest areas of the Robbery and the Süsing . In the municipal coat of arms, Lopau is symbolized by three waves, the former water mill by a mill wheel and the forest area rich in game by a stylized deer on a green background. The oak leaves indicate the five districts, whose image is characterized by the oak trees typical of the farms on the heather.

Community structure

The municipality belongs to the Amelinghausen municipality , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Amelinghausen . The following districts belong to the municipality of Rehlingen:

• Bockum
• Diersbüttel
• Ehlbeck
• Rehlingen
• Rehrhof

history

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Diersbüttel and Ehlbeck were incorporated.

politics

The municipality of Rehlingen belongs to the state electoral district 49 Lüneburg and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

mayor

The honorary mayor Rainer Mühlhausen (UWR) was elected on September 9, 2001 and confirmed in office after the local elections in 2006 and 2011.

Municipal council

The local council in Rehlingen consists of nine councilors. After the last local election on September 11, 2011, the mandates are distributed as follows:

• SPD - 2 seats
• Green - 1 seat
• FDP - 1 seat
• UWR - 5 seats

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

• Rehlingen is located south of the federal highway 209 , which leads from Lüneburg to Soltau .

Public facilities

• The SOS-Hof Bockum [1] , a facility for the social integration of people with intellectual disabilities, has been housed in the renovated buildings of the Hofgut and the disused water mill in the Bockum district since 1985 .
• The municipality of Rehlingen offers a children's play area with 20 seats in the Ehlbeck district.

Personalities

• Erwin Vollmer (1884–1973), artist, lived in Rehlingen from 1912 until his death.
• Fritz T. Epstein (1898–1979), historian, lived in Rehlingen from 1975 until his death.

Web links

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

• Website of the joint community

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. ^ Jürgen P Ravens: From Bardengau to the district of Lüneburg 1985
3. ^ 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. 234 .
4. ↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Annex to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and remove then this note .; 87 KB) 
5. ↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Annex to Article 1. Bonn, March 18, 2008, p. 325. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice .; 200 KB) 
6. ↑ Preliminary election results and composition of the municipal council after the 2011 municipal elections ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 25 kB) 
7. ^ Ehlbeck children's play area , accessed on May 2, 2017.