Seedorf is a municipality in the
district of Rotenburg, in
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
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
.
History
From 1963 to 2006, it hosted the 41st Mechanized Brigade of the
I Corps (Netherlands)
The I Netherlands Corps was an army corps of the Royal Netherlands Army. It formed after the Second World War and after the fall of the Iron Curtain was disestablished.
In January 1949, the government agreed to the establishment of an army corps ...
. On August 1, 2006, the military unit was disbanded and the base was transferred to Germany, where it became the new base of
Bundeswehr
The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: Germ ...
's
31st Airborne Brigade.
References
Municipalities in Lower Saxony
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