Woltersdorf (Wendland)

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Lüchow (Wendland)
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.05 km 2
Residents:	895 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29497
Area code :	05841
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 025
Community structure:	4 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Feuerwehrstrasse 2 ; 29497 Woltersdorf
Website :	www.luechow-wendland.de
Mayoress :	Claudia Hennings
Location of the community Woltersdorf in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Woltersdorf is a municipality in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Woltersdorf is located in Wendland within the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park . The Lucie Canal , which drains to the northwest, runs north of the village . The municipality belongs to the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland) , which has its administrative seat in the city of Lüchow (Wendland) .

Community structure

The municipality of Woltersdorf consists of the following districts:

Klein Breese with train station and forester's lodge Örenburg
Lichtenberg
Thurau
Woltersdorf

history

During construction work near the district of Lichtenberg on the edge of the Geestinsel of the Öring, soil discolouration and ceramic shards were found in 1986. Excavations between 1987 and 1993 uncovered numerous stone tools that were dated to an age of 55,000 years and assigned to the Neanderthal . It is probably a prehistoric hunting ground. The excavations also revealed traces of recent settlement in the area. Ceramic shards from the younger Bronze Age , the pre-Roman Iron Age , the Roman Imperial Age and the Middle Ages were found. The finds from Lichtenberg are in the collection of the Prehistory Department of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

The discovery of an approximately 50,000 year old hand ax also indicates the early presence of humans in the area around Woltersdorf. Another find is a gold ring from the older Bronze Age (approx. 1100–1550 BC).

At the time of the Germanic settlement, the tribe of the Longobards lived in the area around Woltersdorf. After the Great Migration , Slavs settled in this area in Rundling villages , from which the name Wendland can be traced back. The "Götzenstein", which was walled into the field church as an image of a face, indicates the Slavic settlement .

Woltersdorf was first mentioned in a document in the 14th century. The oldest forms of the name were Waltistorpe (1371), Wolterstorpe (1395) and finally Woltersdorf in 1450.

Incorporations

Village community center with integrated chapel

On July 1, 1972, the communities of Klein Breese, Lichtenberg and Thurau were incorporated.

politics

The community Woltersdorf belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg - Lüneburg .

Municipal council

The local council from Woltersdorf consists of nine councilors.

CDU 5 seats
SPD 1 seat
UL 3 seats

(As of: local election on September 11, 2011)

Local elections 2016:

CDU: 4 seats
UL: 4 seats
SPD: 1 seat

Mayor's office

Claudia Hennings was elected to succeed Klaus Böttcher in November 2016. Böttcher had held the office for 25 years.

Attractions

Field Church Woltersdorf

The list of monuments in Woltersdorf (Wendland) contains all the monuments of the municipality of Woltersdorf. Sights are the Woltersdorf field church and the Brautstein. Both are shown in the Woltersdorf coat of arms.

traffic

The B 493 Lüchow - Schnackenburg leads directly through the main town of the municipality and through the Klein Breese district .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988), sociologist and sinologist.

Personalities who have worked on site

Karl Lühr, Mayor of Woltersdorf, executed by the National Socialists on December 20, 1943 in Brandenburg-Görden prison.
Benjamin Piel (* 1984), journalist and Theodor Wolff Prize winner , lived temporarily (until 2018) in Woltersdorf.
The members of the band Hundreds live in Woltersdorf.

Web links

Commons : Woltersdorf (Wendland) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Information about the community Woltersdorf on the website of the joint community Lüchow
Woltersdorf Chronicle
The Lüchow-Woltersdorf overseas radio reception center. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016 ; accessed on October 2, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
↑ Stephan Veil: 55,000 years ago - a hunting ground for early people near Lichtenberg , Ldkr. Lüchow-Dannenberg. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1995. ISBN 3-89598-274-1 .
^ 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 .
↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. ( Annex to § 10 Abs. 1 NLWG, p. 4; PDF 87 KB ( Memento of September 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))
↑ 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; 200 KB ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
^ Citizens' portal for the municipality of Lüchow (Wendland); Woltersdorf community ( Memento from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.ejz.de/ejz_50_111187808-28-_Claudia-Hennings-CDU-macht-das-Rennen---Wahlgewinner-UL-nur-in-der-Opposition.html
↑ Elke Meyer-Hoos: Chronology of a denunciation. In: Das Hakenkreuz im Saatfeld , Museum Wustrow, 1997, pp. 255 ff, ISBN 3-926322-24-1 .
↑ Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung: The electro-pop band Hundreds has lived in Woltersdorf for two years and reveals in an interview why they are only now giving their first concert in Wendland. In: Elbe-Jeetzel-ZeitungElbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] Stephan Veil: 55,000 years ago - a hunting ground for early people near Lichtenberg , Ldkr. Lüchow-Dannenberg. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1995. ISBN 3-89598-274-1 .

[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. 233 .

[Landtagswahlkreiseinteilung-4] Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. ( Annex to § 10 Abs. 1 NLWG, p. 4; PDF 87 KB ( Memento of September 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ))

[Bundestagswahlkreiseinteilung-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; 200 KB ( Memento from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))

[6] Citizens' portal for the municipality of Lüchow (Wendland); Woltersdorf community ( Memento from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[7] ttp://www.ejz.de/ejz_50_111187808-28-_Claudia-Hennings-CDU-macht-das-Rennen---Wahlgewinner-UL-nur-in-der-Opposition.html

[8] Elke Meyer-Hoos: Chronology of a denunciation. In: Das Hakenkreuz im Saatfeld , Museum Wustrow, 1997, pp. 255 ff, ISBN 3-926322-24-1 .

[9] Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung: The electro-pop band Hundreds has lived in Woltersdorf for two years and reveals in an interview why they are only now giving their first concert in Wendland. In: Elbe-Jeetzel-ZeitungElbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung. Retrieved October 16, 2016 .