Dudensen is a village of

Neustadt am Rübenberge Neustadt am Rübenberge (; ) is a town in the Hanover (district), district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At , it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabita ...

in the district of Hanover,

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 ...

in Germany. It had a population of 530 in 2021.

Toponymy

The

abandoned village An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout history, thousands of villages have been deserted for a variety of causes. Abandonment of villages is often related to epidemic, ...

s and are in the district. Both are each named in a deed of donation, the former from 1033, the second 1186. Both deserts can be found with and still in today's names. In her work on names of places in , Tanja Weiß uses two different names. Already in 1128 there is a documentary recorded . In a document from 1228 finally appears the name . There are also two other secondary sources that indicate the year 1228 as the date of the first documentary mention of the place under the name . However, two other sources indicate the year 1261 for the first written mention. In contrast, however, the entry in the Hoyer Lehnsregister around the year 1250 Still in the year 1859 the place is officially listed as , as it still occurs in the linguistic usage.

Governance

Due to the territorial reform in 1974 Dudensen was a district of Neustadt am Rübenberge. and since then forms with ,

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and a village that is represented by a local council. The name of the borough has been ''Mühlenfelder Land'' since November 2011. The local council is made up of a councilwoman and ten councilors. The local council also has 17 advisory members.

Geography

Dudensen is about north of Neustadt's main part of the city. West of Dudensen in the western part of Dudenser bog is located the source of the creek called

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. The place belongs together with Nöpke, Borstel and Hagen to Mühlenfelder Land.

Religion

In a decree of May 17, 1811, the district ''In den Meyerhöfen'', which until then belonged to the parish

Mandelsloh Mandelsloh is a borough of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the Hanover (district), district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The village is close to the river Leine in a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest. Significant buildings * The ba ...

, was incorporated into Dudensen. In 1824 Dudensen is listed as a parish village, that means in the village a pastor had his seat. In 1871, 476 of the inhabitants, 475 were Protestant and one Catholic.

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