Reddingen is a village in the municipality of

Wietzendorf Wietzendorf ( Eastphalian: ''Witzendörp'') is a municipality in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, in northern Germany. It is situated approximately 14 km southeast of Soltau, and 50 km southwest of Lüneburg. The population as ...

Soltau-Fallingbostel district Heidekreis ("Heath district") is a district (''Landkreis'') in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Harburg, Lüneburg, Uelzen, Celle, Hanover, Nienburg, Verden and Rotenburg. History Hist ...

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 ...

, Germany. The village, even with its associated hamlets of Reiningen and Halmern, only has 100 inhabitants. Formerly an independent municipality, it is part of Wietzendorf since 1974.

Location

Reddingen 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 ...

. The Wietze river flows through the settlement of Reiningen. The Munster South Training Area begins immediately north of the three villages and is closed to the public.

Transport

The K 11 and K 38 district roads meet in the village. The VNN's bus line no. 352 runs through the villages. By the Wietze in Reiningen is a water gauge and a hydrometric

gauging station A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water. Hydrometric measurements of water level surface elevation ("stage") and/or vo ...

belonging to the

NLWKN The Lower Saxon Department for Water, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) () is a department of the state of Lower Saxony, with its headquarters in Norden (Ostfriesland) and is responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Climate Protec ...

for gathering environmental data. In Halmern, Reddingen and Reiningen there are no road names, just house numbers which the residents, postal staff, local suppliers and visitors have to get to know.

Politics

The chair of the parish council (''Ortsvorsteher'') is Wilhelm Grünhagen. File:ReiningenReethaus (1).jpg, Reed-covered house in Reiningen, workshop for hand-made dolls File:ReiningenLehmbackofen.jpg, Historic clay oven in Reiningen File:ReiningenTrpSpch (1).jpg, Old

Treppenspeicher A ''Treppenspeicher'' (literally "staircase store") is the German term for a granary or secondary farm building used for storage and is typical of the Lüneburg Heath area in northern Germany. The upper storey of the store was usually accessed via ...

in Reiningen File:ReiningenWietze (1).jpg, The Wietze in Reiningen Heidekreis Villages in Lower Saxony {{Heidekreis-geo-stub