Bomlitz is a village and a former
municipality
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The term ''municipality ...
in the
Heidekreis district, in
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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. On 1 January 2020, it was merged into the town
Walsrode.
Geography
Location
Bomlitz lies on the
Lüneburg Heath
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in a heavily wooded area. The two rivers,
Bomlitz and
Warnau
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History
The Warini were a Germanic people originally from southern Scandinavia but who lived in the Warnau region, the army and its Warini warriors were exterm ...
run through the municipality.
Parishes
The municipality of Bomlitz comprised eight localities (''Ortschaften''):
Ahrsen,
Benefeld, Bomlitz,
Bommelsen,
Borg
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,
Jarlingen,
Kroge and
Uetzingen.
History
In the fall of 1944, a short-lived satellite camp of
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen , or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentr ...
operated at Bomlitz-Benefeld. Guarded by SS staff, around 600 women were forced to work at the Eibia GmbH gunpowder works.
Politics
Municipal council
The municipal council (''Gemeinderat'') of Bomlitz consists of 20 councillors and the mayor (''Bürgermeister'') who is from the
SPD party.
*
CDU 8 seats
*
SPD 12 seats
(as at the
local elections on 10 September 2006)
* Mayor: Michael Lebid
Twin towns
*
Kępice, Poland
*
Blainville sur Orne
Blainville-sur-Orne (, literally ''Blainville on Orne'') is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Geography
Blainville-sur-Orne is on the west side of the Canal de Caen à la Mer, just south of Bé ...
, France.
Parks
Nearby is the
Walsrode Bird Park. It is one of the largest
bird parks
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in the world with an area of 240,000 m². About 4,000 birds of over 700 different species live on the site.
Natural monuments
In the Eibia local recreation area there are several pre-Christian tumuli.
Sport
There are 2 large sports clubs in Bomlitz:
* SG Bomlitz-Lönsheide
The Bomlitz-Lönsheide Sports Club (''Sportgemeinschaft Bomlitz-Lönsheide'') was formed by the merger of Bomlitz Sports Club (''Sportverein Bomlitz'') and the Uetzingen-Honerdingen Sports Club (''Spielgemeinschaft Uetzingen-Honerdingen''). The club has 14 specialisations (including football, handball, cycling and swimming).
* SG Benefeld-Cordingen
The Benefeld-Cordingen Sports Club (''Sportgemeinschaft Benefeld-Cordingen'') has almost 1,200 members and offers a similarly broad spectrum of sports (including football, handball, gymnastics, walking and, since its merger with the Tennisclub Blau-Weiss Bomlitz in 2010, tennis as well).
* Bomlitz has a heated open-air swimming pool with a 50-metre pool, diving board and non-swimmer's and small children's pools.
References
Sources
* Olaf Mußmann: ''Bomlitz. Perspektiven der Geschichte.'' Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1989;
* Olaf Mußmann: ''Komplexe Geschichte. Systemtheorie, Selbstorganisation und Regionalgeschichte. Von der Papiermühle zur Pulverfabrik. Ein historischer Längsschnitt der Gemeinde Bomlitz.'' Universität, Dissertation, Hanover 1994
* Olaf Mußmann: ''Selbstorganisation und Chaostheorie in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Das Beispiel des Gewerbe- und Rüstungsdorfes Bomlitz 1680–1930.'' Leipziger Univ.-Verlag, Leipzig 1998;
* Thorsten Neubert-Preine: ''Bomlitz. Von der Papiermühle zur Großgemeinde.'' Herausgeber Stiftung Geschichtshaus Bomlitz, Rückblende Nr. 5, Mai 2010
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