Uetze () is a municipality in the district of Hanover, in

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. It is situated on the river

Fuhse The Fuhse is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany, a left tributary of the Aller. Spelled Fuse in maps of the 19th century and earlier, the name is thought to derive from the ancient Fosa flumen, after which the Germanic tribe of the Fosi took thei ...

, approximately east of

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 ...

Geography

Uetze is the easternmost municipality in the

Hanover Region Hanover Region () is a districts of Germany, district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Heidekreis, Celle (district), Celle, Gifhorn (district), Gifhorn, Peine (district), Peine, Hildeshe ...

. It is bordered by the districts 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 ...

Gifhorn Gifhorn () is a town and capital of the district of Gifhorn (district), Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the more industrial and commercially import ...

and

Peine Peine (; Eastphalian: ''Paane'') is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, capital of the district Peine. It is situated on the river Fuhse and the Mittellandkanal, approximately west of Braunschweig, northeast of Hildesheim, and east of Hanover ...

as well as the towns

Lehrte Lehrte () is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 17 km east of Hanover. In the 19th century Lehrte was the most important railway junction in the former Kingdom of Hanover. As of the 2 ...

and Burgdorf, which are both part of the Hanover Region. Uetze consists of nine villages which used to be autonomous municipalities. Those villages are Altmerdingsen (including Krausenburg and Krätze), Dedenhausen, Dollbergen, Eltze, Hänigsen, Katensen, Obershagen, Schwüblingsen and the market town and municipality seat Uetze. Uetze is the largest settlement at about 7200 inhabitants, followed by Hänigsen at about 6000.

History

Uetze was first mentioned in 1022 as "Utisson". The name is derived from the ruling house "von Uttensen". From 1552 to 1885, Uetze was protectorate of a Vogt in the department of Meinersen. Uetze was designated a market town in 1695. In the afternoon of 21 April 1863, almost all of Uetze proper was destroyed in a fire. The volunteer fire department was founded on 5 June 1880. In 1885, Uetze became part of the Burgdorf District, the Hanover District in 1974 and

in 2001. Uetze used to be part of the Eastphalian

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language area, but

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has all but replaced the language. There is still an active community of Low German speakers in Eltze. A dictionary for the village's dialect is available in Standard German.

Transport

Highway B 188 traverses the area from east to west, connecting Uetze proper and Altmerdingsen to Burgdorf and Gifhorn. The highways B 214 and B 444 connect to Celle, Braunschweig and Peine. The villages Dollbergen and Dedenhausen both have a train station on the Berlin-Lehrte Railway which are served by regional express line RE 30 from

Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian language, Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth-largest city in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller (Germany), Aller east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the locat ...

. The municipality is connected to Burgdorf and Lehrte via RegioBus lines 910, 920, 930 and 946. Lines 938 and 950 operate within the municipal limits.

References

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