Dittmern is a village in the borough of

Soltau Soltau () is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around 22,000 inhabitants. The city is centrally located in the Lüneburg Heath and is known nationwide especially for its touri ...

in the Heidekreis district in the German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

. The village has 783 inhabitants (as at: 2003Quelle: ). The hamlets of ''Friedrichseck'', ''Hambostel'', ''Grüne Aue'', ''Heidenhof'' and ''Höpenhof'' belong to the parish of Dittmern. The

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name for Dittmern is ''Dibbern''. Dittmern lies on 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 ...

northeast of

on the ''Große Aue'' river. The district roads (''

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n'') K 2 and K 9 and the A 7 motorway run through the parish. A motorway junction, ''Heideregion'', in the vicinity of Dittmern, is currently being planned. The parish chairman is Andreas Wagner-Wischhoff (as at 2008).

Places of interest

* The Soltau Heide Park, a very popular amusement park. * The Heidenhof Chapel dating to 1349 in the Heidenhof, on the terrain of the Heide Park. * Soltau Camp (''Lager Soltau'') the largest German

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camp of the

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was on the site of the present-day Friedrichseck

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References

Villages in Lower Saxony Heidekreis Soltau {{Heidekreis-geo-stub