Uelzen (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Uelzen (), is a

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in northeast

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, and capital of the district of Uelzen. It is part of the

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, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality. Uelzen is characterised by timber-framed architecture and also has some striking examples of North German

brick Gothic Brick Gothic (, , ) is a specific style of Gothic architecture common in Baltic region, Northeast and Central Europe especially in the regions in and around the Baltic Sea, which do not have resources of standing rock (though Glacial erratic, ...

. The town earned pan-regional fame when

Friedensreich Hundertwasser Friedrich Stowasser (15 December 1928 – 19 February 2000), better known by his pseudonym Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (), was an Austrian visual artist and architect who also worked in the field of environmental protection ...

was selected to redesign the railway station: the final work of the celebrated Viennese artist and architect was ceremonially opened in 2000 as the Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen, and remains a popular tourism destination. The Polabian name for Uelzen is (spelled ''Wiltzaus'' in older German reference material), possibly derived from or (<

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*) 'alder'.

History

The town was founded in 1250. In 1270 Duke John of Brunswick-Lüneburg, a Welf who ruled the Principality of Lüneburg from 1252 to 1277, granted Uelzen its

town privileges Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditio ...

(''Stadtrechte''). In the Middle Ages it became an active member of the

Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League was a Middle Ages, medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe, Northern Europe. Growing from a few Northern Germany, North German towns in the ...

. The town

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, built in the 14th century, originally had three gates, a

wall A wall is a structure and a surface that defines an area; carries a load; provides security, shelter, or soundproofing; or serves a decorative purpose. There are various types of walls, including border barriers between countries, brick wal ...

, and a

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. Parts of the wall are still standing. While Uelzen only played a small role in the Hanseatic League, there is evidence that it traded with

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and

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. At the ''Schnellenmarket'', a

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trading office purchased Uelzener

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, earthenware pitchers were offered for sale and

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business flourished. On 21 October 1470, Uelzen was the venue for a Hanseatic League Convention. This was a special honor, as these annual resolutions of the association of cities usually took place in

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. The town became part of the

Electorate of Hanover The Electorate of Hanover ( or simply ''Kurhannover'') was an Prince-elector, electorate of the Holy Roman Empire located in northwestern Germany that arose from the Principality of Calenberg. Although formally known as the Electorate of Brun ...

in 1708, the

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in 1807, the

Kingdom of Hanover The Kingdom of Hanover () was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Hanover, and j ...

in 1814, and the

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in 1866. Uelzen was the site of a

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that operated in Uelzen until 17 April 1945. The camp was a subcamp of the

Neuengamme concentration camp Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and List of subcamps of Neuengamme, more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme, Hamburg, N ...

. Uelzen was hit by five air raids during

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, on 18 April 1944, 10 November 1944, 27 November 1944, 22 February 1945 and 7 April 1945. Across these raids, 1362 buildings were destroyed or damaged. The heaviest raid was on 22 February 1945 when 149 people lost their lives and 95 houses were completely destroyed. On 7 April 1944, three civilians were killed and 153 houses were destroyed or damaged. Estimates indicate up to 27% of the town was destroyed at some point during the war.

Geography

Location

Uelzen lies on the eastern edge of the

Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath (, ) is a large area of heath (habitat), heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen and is ...

. The town is a transport hub on the north–south axis from

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Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

as well as the east–west axis from

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (, ), is the capital of the States of Germany, German state of the Bremen (state), Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (), a two-city-state consisting of the c ...

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

. Also of economic importance is its location on the

Elbe Lateral Canal The Elbe Lateral Canal (; ), is a long canal in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from the Mittelland Canal near Gifhorn to the Elbe in Artlenburg. It forms an important transport connection between southern and northern Germany, and it provides ...

. The town is situated on the

Ilmenau Ilmenau () is a town in Thuringia, central Germany. It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately south of Erfurt and north of Nuremberg w ...

, and the banks in Uelzen are dotted with small parks wetland areas. Large areas in the vicinity of Uelzen have been set aside as

nature parks A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected area by means of long-term land management, land planning, sustainable natural resource management, resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate dev ...

with moors, woods, lakes, and heathland: the

Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park The Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park (), formerly known as the Elbufer-Drawehn Nature Park (''Naturpark Elbufer-Drawehn'') is a German nature park east of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony. Geography Location The nature park lies mainly in Lüchow-Dannen ...

Lüneburg Heath Nature Park Lüneburg Heath Nature Park (German: ''Naturpark Lüneburger Heide'') is a nature park, a form of protected environment, located in the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. It has an area of . The centre of the nature park is the Lüneburg Hea ...

and Lower Saxon Elbe Valley Water Meadows Biosphere Reserve.

Divisions

The following parishes belong to the borough of Uelzen: Groß Liedern, Halligdorf, Hambrock, Hansen, Hanstedt II, Holdenstedt, Kirchweyhe, Klein Süstedt, Masendorf, Mehre, Molzen, Oldenstadt, Riestedt, Ripdorf, Tatern, Veerßen, Westerweyhe, and Woltersburg. Furthermore, there are four other places that have the status of "special parishes" (''Sonstige Ortsteile''): Borne, Kl. Liedern, Pieperhöfen, and Oldenstadt-West.

Climate

Uelzen has a typical

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(

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: ''Cfb'';

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: ''Dobk''). The average temperature ranges from in winter to in summer, with precipitation concentrated from May to August. On average, there are 11 days with a maximum temperature of over per year, and high temperatures of over occur every four years on average. The Uelzen weather station has recorded the following extreme values: * Highest Temperature on 20 July 2022. * Warmest Minimum on 29 July 1969. * Coldest Maximum on 1 February 1956. * Lowest Temperature on 24 February 1956. * Highest Daily Precipitation on 29 June 2024. * Wettest Month in June 1953. * Wettest Year in 2023. * Driest Year in 1959. * Earliest Snowfall: 7 November 1968. * Latest Snowfall: 29 April 1985. * Longest annual sunshine: 1,961.8 hours in 1959. * Shortest annual sunshine: 1,228.5 hours in 1978.

Governance

Uelzen belongs to the

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constituency of

Celle Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle (district), Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller (Germany), Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about ...

-Uelzen. In 2009

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(CDU) was directly elected, having been on the state list (place 19) since 2005.

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(SPD) was elected in 2009 via the state list. In the years 1998, 2002 and 2005 Peter Struck (SPD), former defense minister and chairman of the SPD party in the German Bundestag, was directly elected.

Mayor

Jürgen Markwardt (independent) has been the mayor of Uelzen since 2014, when he was elected with 64.4% of the vote. The deputy mayors are Karsten Jäkel (CDU) and Ariane Schmäschke (The Greens). * 1913–1946: Johann Maria Farina. * 1946: Dr. Heinz Lücke (CDU). * 1946–1948:

Adolf Hochgraefe Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo, and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name with German origins. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', mea ...

(SPD). * 1948–1950: Dr. Heinz Lücke. * 1950–1952: Adolf Hochgraefe. * 1952–1961: Dr. Heinz Lücke. * 1961–1963: Adolf Hochgraefe. * 1963–1964: Dr. Heinz Lücke. * 1964–1972:

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(CDU). * 1972–1979: Rudi Schrödter (SPD). * 1979–1981: Hans-Alexander Drechsler (SPD). * 1981–1991: Rudolf Froin (CDU). * 1991–1997: Günter Leifert (SPD). * 1997–2001: Günter Leifert (hauptamtlich). * 2001–2014:

Otto Lukat Otto is a masculine German given name and a Otto (surname), surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name i ...

(SPD). * 2014: Jürgen Markwardt (independent).

Twin towns – sister cities

Uelzen is twinned with: *

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, England, United Kingdom *

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, France *

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, Belarus * Tikaré, Burkina Faso

Arts and culture

Theatre

Uelzen contains a number of theaters, including the theatre on the Ilmenau, the Jabelmann Events Hall, and the fringe theatre on the Rosenmauer.

Museums

Worthy of mention is the Holdenstedt Castle Museum which is the town's local history museum. Permanent exhibitions include furniture from the Middle Ages, a glass collection, artwork by painter Georg Wolf, and archaeological finds from the local area.

Economy

The largest

sugar beet A sugar beet is a plant whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose and that is grown commercially for sugar production. In plant breeding, it is known as the Altissima cultivar group of the common beet (''Beta vulgaris''). Together with ...

refinery in the

Nordzucker Nordzucker AG, headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany, is Europe's second largest sugar manufacturer. The production of sugar, liquid sugars and other specialities for the application in the nutrition, beverage and sweets industry as well as o ...

group is in Uelzen. It processes approximately 20,000 tons of sugar beet per day. Other large employers in the town are Nestlé Schöller or the dairy manufacturer ''Uelzena''. Bituminous roofing felts and insulation material has been manufactured in Uelzen b
C. Hasse & Sohn
since 1872.

Infrastructure

Railway station

The Hundertwasserbahnhof is a railway station in Uelzen at the eastern edge of the

in northeastern

. Cities directly reachable by rail from this hub are

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Lüneburg Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German Bundesland (Germany), state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city, Hambur ...

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( ; from Low German , local dialect: ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the ...

and

. The original station was renovated for

Expo 2000 Expo 2000 was a World Expo held in Hanover, Germany from 1 June to 31 October 2000. It was located on the Hanover Fairground (Messegelände Hannover), which is the largest exhibition ground in the world. Initially, some 40 million people were ...

following plans by the Austrian artist and architect

. An "environmentally, culturally oriented" station, the station was renamed after the architect as 'Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen'. Today it is one of the town's popular tourist attractions.

Courts

Uelzen has a district court (''Amtsgericht''), which belongs to the state court region of

and the Oberlandesgericht (High State Court) region of

Education

Schools in Uelzen include the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium, Lessing-Gymnasium, Oberschule-Uelzen, Lucas-Backmeister-Schule, Sternschule, Berufsbildene Schulen I and II and 6 elementary schools.

Health and medicine

Uelzen has one hospital (''HELIOS Klinikum''), two clinics that specialise in different areas (''Klinik Veerßen'' and ''Psychiatrische Klinik Uelzen'') and some pharmacies and dentists.

Notable people

* Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick (1497–1546),

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, ruled the

Principality of Lüneburg The Principality of Lüneburg (later also referred to as Celle) was a territorial division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire, immediately subordinate to the emperor. It existed from 1269 until 1705 and its territory ...

from 1520. *

Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg Francis of Brunswick-Lüneburg (23 November 1508 – 23 November 1549) was the youngest son of Henry the Middle. Following a thirty-year joint reign of Brunswick-Lüneburg with his brother Ernest the Confessor, he ruled the newly founded Duchy o ...

(1508–1549), ruled the

Duchy of Gifhorn The Duchy of Gifhorn () with its residence at Gifhorn Castle was founded in 1539 and lasted only 10 years until the death of its ruler, Duke Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Francis of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1549. It consisted of the ''Amt (co ...

from

Gifhorn Castle Gifhorn Castle () is a castle in Gifhorn, Germany, built between 1525 and 1581 in the Weser Renaissance style. The castle was fortified until 1790 with moats, ramparts and bastions and was never captured. In the 16th century it was the ''Residenz'' ...

Bernhardus Varenius Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (1622, Hitzacker, Holy Roman Empire1650) was a German geographer. Life His early years (from 1627) were spent at Uelzen, where his father was court preacher to the duke of Brunswick. Varenius studied at th ...

(1622–1650), a German geographer, grew up locally. *

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann Eberhardt August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (August 17, 1743, Uelzen – July 4, 1815, Braunschweig) was a German geographer and zoologist. He studied natural philosophy and mathematics in Leiden, Halle an der Saale, Halle, Berlin, and Göttin ...

(1743–1815), geographer and zoologist. *

Friedrich Kuhlau Friedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau (German; Danish sometimes ''Frederick Kulav'') (11 September 1786 – 12 March 1832) was a Danish pianist and composer during the late Classical and early Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danis ...

(1786–1832), court composer to the Danish royal court * Georg Wilding, Fürst von Butera und Radali, (DE Wiki) (1790–1841), royal-Neapolitan envoy in St. Petersburg *

Theodore Kaufmann Theodore Kaufmann (December 18, 1814 – 1896) was a German-born artist who worked mostly in the United States. Biography Theodore Kaufmann was born in Uelzen, Germany. He served for several years as a mercantile apprentice and he studied paint ...

(1814–1896), American painter. *

Eric Muenter Erich Muenter (born Erich Heinrich Eugen Münter; March 25, 1871 – July 6, 1915), also known as Eric Muenter, Erich Holt or Frank Holt, was a German-American political terrorist, activist, spy, professor and would-be assassin. Employed as ...

(1871–1915), a German-American political terrorist, activist, spy, professor and would-be assassin. *

Walter Wallmann Walter Wallmann (24 September 1932 – 21 September 2013) was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt-am-Main, Mayor of Frankfurt between ...

(1932–2013), politician (CDU),

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from 1977 to 1986 * Klaus-Ernst Behne (1940–2013), professor of musicology *

Angelika Volquartz Angelika Volquartz (born 2 September 1946 in Uelzen, Lower Saxony) is a German politician. She was the mayor of Kiel from 2003 to 2009. She was the first Kiel's female mayor. References

1946 births Living people People from Uelzen Ch ...

(born 1946), politician (CDU), 2003–2009 Mayor of

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Rebecca Harms Rebecca Harms (born 7 December 1956) is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party. From 2010 until 2016 she ser ...

(born 1956), politician (The Greens) * Mola Adebisi (born 1973), TV presenter (VIVA) *

André Doehring André Doehring (born in 1973) is a German musicologist, who is active in pop music and jazz research. Work Born in Uelzen, Doehring studied musicology and sociology. Since 2005 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Musicology a ...

(born 1973), musicologist * Franz Eler (died 1590), choirmaster and composer

Sport

Charlotte Mühe Charlotte Mühe (January 24, 1910 – January 10, 1981) was a German swimmer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was ...

(1910–1981), a swimmer, bronze medallist at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

. *

Felipe Fernández Laser Felipe Fernández Laser (born 16 November 1988) is a German racing driver. Career Fernández Laser began his racing career in 2007 in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup and ended it with three wins in the rookie classification. A year later, he entere ...

(born 1988), racing driver * Sören Bertram (born 1991), footballer who has played over 280 games

Notes

References

*Official German list of concentration camp
Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos
*

Johann Parum Schultze Johann, typically a male given name, is the German language, German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin language, Latin form of the Greek language, Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew language, Hebrew name ''Johanan (name ...

; Reinhold Olesch (Hrsg.): ''Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores et Chronica Venedica J. P. Schultzii''. (= Slavistische Forschungen; Band 7). Böhlau, Köln und Graz 1967 *

Christian Hennig von Jessen A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words '' Christ'' and ''C ...

: ''Vocabularium Venedicum (oder Wendisches Wörter-Buch)'' (1705). Nachdruck besorgt von Reinhold Olesch. - Köln .a. Böhlau 1959 (Gewährsmann des Pastors C. Hennig von Jessen war der polabisch sprechende Bauer Johann Janieschge aus Klennow)

External links

Official site

Uelzen website translated to English with google translation
* {{Authority control Towns in Lower Saxony Neuengamme concentration camp Uelzen (district)