Wistedt

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Wistedt
Wistedt
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Wistedt highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 16 '  N , 9 ° 41'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Harburg
Joint municipality : Tostedt
Height : 45 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.49 km 2
Residents: 1764 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 95 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 21255
Area code : 04182
License plate : WL
Community key : 03 3 53 041
LOCODE : DE WSX
Community structure: 1 district
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Am Brink 10
21255 Wistedt
Website : Wistedt municipality
Mayor : Sven Bauer (WGW)
Location of the municipality of Wistedt in the Harburg district
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Wistedt (Low German Wist ) is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Tostedt in the Harburg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Ortstein Wistedt
Wistedt primary school
Wümmepark
Sports hall Wistedt
Elias School Wistedt
Wistedt fire department
War memorial Wümme

Geographical location

Wistedt is located northwest of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park . The municipality belongs to the Tostedt joint municipality , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Tostedt .

Neighboring communities

Community structure

The districts of Wistedt and Wümme as well as the Quellen homestead belong to the municipality of Wistedt. The place Tostedt Land belongs to the municipality Tostedt and the municipality Wistedt at the same time.

history

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1244.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council, which was elected on September 11, 2016, is composed as follows:

Political party 2016 2011 2006
Wistedt WGW voter community 9 seats - -
CDU - 6 seats 7 seats
SPD - 4 seats 4 seats
Alliance 90 / The Greens 2 seats 1 seat -

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

mayor

The honorary mayor Sven Bauer was elected in 2016 and succeeded Wolfgang Indorf, who held the office for 32 years.

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided twice by green, silver and red. Above, in green, a horizontal silver peat spade. In the middle in silver a green heather crossed with heather rake. Red the shield base. From below, two wavy beams in blue that strive towards each other and again apart.

Regular public events

  • The Wistedter flea market , since 1979 always on the second Sunday in June, is one of the most popular flea markets in the area. Around 500 private sellers offer their goods in the idyllic village.

Culture and sights

Geographically, Wistedt represents the watershed between the Elbe and Weser. The Wümme (to the Weser ) and Oste (to the Elbe ) heathland streams approach each other within the municipality up to approx. 300 m and then flow in other directions. Relative to the municipality, Wistedt has one of the highest proportions of designated nature reserves in Lower Saxony: Kauers Wittmoor and Großes Moor und Aueniederung near Wistedt .

Walter Bostelmann and Grethe Matthies are honorary citizens of Wistedt. Both have created an extensive chronicle of Wistedt. In addition, Bostelmann has written four other treatises - partly in Wister Platt - on the citizens of Wistedt and their customs. Its rock collections from the district are impressive.

Sports

The only sports club in town is SV Wistedt von 1924 eV

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

education

Wistedt has a kindergarten, a primary school and the Elias school. By adding an extension to the kindergarten, it is now also possible to set up a crèche. This will open its doors in April 2015.

Honorary citizen

The long-time mayor Wolfgang Indorf was appointed honorary mayor in 2016

Personalities

literature

  • Ortwin Meier , Bernhard Engelke : The hollow pfennig find from Wistedt, Harburg district (= Berliner Münzblätter , 1921/1922), "Dedicated to the 1st Lower Saxony Coin Researcher Day by the Numismatic Association for Lower Saxony in Hanover", (printed by Berlin: Bahlke), 1922
  • Wistedt, sources, Wümme: history and stories. Collected and written down by Grete Matthies and Walter Bostelmann. Published by the municipality of Wistedt, Wistedt: Municipality of Wistedt, 1990.

Web links

Commons : Wistedt  - 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. ^ Election results on the website of the municipality of Tostedt
  3. ↑ newspaper article from November 30, 2016