Thomasburg

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 40'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Luneburg
Joint municipality :	Ostheide
Height :	54 m above sea level NHN
Area :	26.68 km 2
Residents:	1349 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21401
Area code :	05859
License plate :	LG
Community key :	03 3 55 036
Community structure:	3 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Dannhopweg 5 21401 Thomasburg
Website :	www.thomasburg.jimdo.com
Mayor :	Dieter Schröder ( SPD )
Location of the community of Thomasburg in the district of Lüneburg

Thomasburg is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the integrated municipality of Ostheide , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Barendorf .

geography

Thomasburg is on the western edge of the Elbufer-Drawehn nature park on the Neetze . Districts of the community are Bavendorf , Radenbeck with Wennekath and Wieelte.

history

Peter and Paul Church

In excavations on the castle or Kirchberg in Thomasburg in 1997 Neolithic (were Neolithic ), Roman Iron Age and medieval finds made. A bit of flint is the best find of this excavation. Chipping marks on the cutting edge, starting from the neck, are to be regarded as traces of improper use of the Thomasburg flint chisel. The device was probably used similar to a chisel in use today. Such chisels, which could also have been used as adzes , belong to the north-west German individual grave culture . The Neolithic finds from the excavation, mostly cut-offs and only a few pieces of equipment, are dated to the end of the Neolithic, an era that, like the subsequent Bronze Age, whose early foothills reach northeast Lower Saxony across the Elbe, is documented by grave finds from the area around Thomasburg . The numerous cuts and the low occurrence of finished tools allow the assumption that the Stone Age finds on the Thomasburg Kirchberg are to be interpreted as an indication of the existence of a work place that was located at the edge of a body of water in an exposed position on a terrain spur. Here, a comparison pushing some to the topographical situation - lost seats in - but significantly older Ilmenau- and Luhe valley on. Since the Neolithic and medieval finds on the Thomasburg Castle Hill could not be stratigraphically separated from each other, the suspicion is that the former were exposed during leveling work within the castle complex to be built or the already existing castle complex in the early and high Middle Ages, and later again to be spilled under the resulting soil.

Thomasburg was first mentioned in 1124 and was owned by the Rastede Monastery near Oldenburg. Based on genealogical relationships, it can be assumed that the complex was once inherited from the Billunger family via the Counts of Stade to the monastery of the Counts of Oldenburg. The Thomasburger Burgwall is - next to the Bleckeder Castle and the remains of the Neuhauser Castle - the best preserved castle complex in the eastern district of Lüneburg.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Bavendorf and Radenbeck were incorporated.

politics

The community of Thomasburg belongs to the state constituency 48 Elbe and to the federal constituency 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Infrastructure

Wennekath district

The federal highway 216 Lüneburg - Dannenberg (Elbe) lies south of the community.

Buildings

The origins of the Peter and Paul Church go back to the 11th century. Today's stone church was largely built at the beginning of the 20th century.

literature

• Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Church of Peter and Paul in Thomasburg , pp. 11–112, in: If stones could talk . Volume IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5

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. 233 .
3. ↑ 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) 
4. ↑ 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) 

Web links

Commons : Thomasburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Ostheide community
• Information platform for the villages of the Thomasburg community