Waddeweitz

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Waddeweitz
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Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '  N , 10 ° 58'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality : Lüchow (Wendland)
Height : 40 m above sea level NHN
Area : 48.81 km 2
Residents: 886 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 18 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 29496
Area code : 05849
License plate : DAN
Community key : 03 3 54 024
Association administration address: Theodor-Körner-Str. 14
29439 Lüchow
Website : www.waddeweitz.de
Mayor : Frank Socha ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Waddeweitz in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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Rest area in Waddeweitz with an old factory chimney

Waddeweitz is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the joint community Lüchow (Wendland) .

geography

Geographical location

Waddeweitz is located in the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park .

Community structure

The community consists of the districts:

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972 the communities Bischof, Diahren, Dickfeitzen, Dommatzen, Gohlau, Groß Gaddau, Kiefen, Klein Gaddau, Kukate, Marlin, Salderatzen, Schlanze, Wittfeitzen and Zebelin were incorporated.

politics

The municipality of Waddeweitz belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

The local council from Waddeweitz consists of 9 councilors.

  • CDU 4 seats
  • SPD 1 seat
  • UWG 4 seats

(Status: local election on September 10, 2011)

mayor

The honorary mayor Frank Socha was elected on September 10, 2011.

Religions

Neo-Gothic church in Wittfeitzen
Church Zebelin

In the municipality Waddeweitz there are the two Lutheran churches Zebelin and Wittfeitzen that a common Rectory in coasts with the parishes Peace Church coasts , Krummasel and Meuchefitz have. The Dickfeitzen chapel community is connected to the parish in Clenze .

The youth workshop of the Diakonie, an institution of the Lüchow-Dannenberg church district, is housed in the former parish hall in Zebelin .

In addition to the two cemeteries of the parishes in Wittfeitzen and Zebelin, there is also a small cemetery of the village community of Kiefen.

Churches

The field stone church in Zebelin was mentioned for the first time in the 15th century. The pulpit altar is from the 17th century. The church has been renovated since 2010 and the color scheme from 1910 restored.

Wittfeitzen has been a church town since the Middle Ages . Today's brick church was built in the neo-Gothic style in 1872 and has an organ made by P. Furtwängler & Hammer .

Around 1900 a small, simple chapel with a roof turret and a small bell from 1975 was built in Dickfeitzen .

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Personalities

  • Emma Gertrud Eckermann (1879–1967), painter, graphic artist and art teacher; lived in Kukate from 1943 to 1959

Web links

Commons : Waddeweitz  - 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. ^ 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. 230 and 231 .
  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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nls.niedersachsen.de
  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) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeswahlleiter.de
  5. ↑ EJZ report on the renovation of the parish hall by the youth workshop ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ejz.de
  6. ↑ EYC report on filming in the cemetery , accessed on November 14, 2012
  7. ↑ Ernst-Günther Behn: Das Hannoversche Wendland - churches and chapels, page 186 f.
  8. ↑ The Zebelin Church on the website of the Lüchow-Dannenberg Church District , accessed on November 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ A photo of the church in Wittfeitzen on the website of the Lüchow-Dannenberg church district, accessed on November 15, 2012.
  10. ↑ EYC report to the organ Instant reduction , accessed on 14 November 2012 found.