Ribbesbüttel

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '  N , 10 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Gifhorn
Joint municipality :	Isenbüttel
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.51 km 2
Residents:	2093 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	38551
Primaries :	05374, 05373
License plate :	GF
Community key :	03 1 51 022
Community structure:	5 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Birkenweg 2 38551 Ribbesbüttel
Website :	www.ribbesbuettel.de
Mayor :	Hans-Werner Buske ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ribbesbüttel in the Gifhorn district

Ribbesbüttel with the Ribbesbüttel castle mentioned in 1548 as a Merian engraving around 1654

church

Ribbesbüttel is a municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Ribbesbüttel is located on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath on the Papenteich plateau, about 20 km north of Braunschweig and about 5 km south of Gifhorn. The municipality is part of the Isenbüttel municipality , which has its administrative seat in the Isenbüttel municipality . In the municipality, between the villages of Druffelbeck, Warmbüttel and east of Vollbüttel, the stream Vollbütteler Riede flows , west of Vollbüttel the Viehmoorgraben .

Community structure

The districts of the municipality are:

• Shake out
• Druffelbeck
• Ribbesbüttel (core town)
• Vollbüttel with the residential areas Klein Vollbüttel and Vossheide
• Warmbüttel

history

Ribbesbüttel was first mentioned in 1007 as the Rikbaldesgebutle and belongs to the Büttel villages in terms of settlement history . In the Middle Ages, the place belonged to the rule of the noble lords of Meinersen , who were close to the Guelphs . When Duke Otto the Strict of Lüneburg took Meinersen Castle in 1316 , Ribbesbüttel came to the Principality of Lüneburg . Ribbesbüttel Castle was mentioned in 1548 and is shown on a Merian engraving from 1654. The current palace at the same location is a new building from 1906.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the community and the main part of the dissolved community Vollbüttel were incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal elections in 2016 resulted in the following composition of the municipal council (the results for 2011 in brackets):

• CDU : 52.5% (48.5%), 7 seats (6 seats)
• SPD : 43.8% (51.5%), 6 seats (7 seats)
• Individual applicants Schöne: 3.7%

The turnout was 65.89% (54.13%.)

mayor

Hans-Werner Buske was elected honorary mayor on August 15, 2019.

coat of arms

On the occasion of the millennium in 2007, the Ribbesbüttel community decided on a coat of arms.

Blazon : "In black above a silver shaft, below a six-petalled silver rose."

traffic

• Ribbesbüttel is to the west of federal highway 4 , which leads from Braunschweig to Uelzen .

Others

Part of the plot of the children's opera Wittkopp by the composer Hans-Joachim Marx based on a libretto by Margret Rettich takes place on a fictional farm in Ribbesbüttel.

literature

• RIBBESBÜTTEL district of Gifhorn. Ev. Church. In: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bremen Lower Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , page 1119 f.

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. ^ 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. 226 .

Web links

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

Wikisource: Ribbesbüttel in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Website of the municipality of Ribbesbüttel
• Website of the joint community Isenbüttel