Suderburg is a municipality in the
district of Uelzen, in
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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. It is situated approximately 11 km southwest of
Uelzen
Uelzen (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Uelzen (), is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the district of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality.
Uelz ...
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Suderburg is also the seat of the ''
Samtgemeinde
A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division) ...
'' ("collective municipality")
Suderburg.
Municipal divisions
The parish of ''Suderburg'' consists of Suderburg itself and the following villages that had been independent until the municipal reform in 1972:
Bahnsen,
Böddenstedt,
Hamerstorf,
Hösseringen
Hösseringen is a village in the Samtgemeinde Suderburg, collective municipality of Suderburg and lies southwest of Uelzen in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Geography
Hösseringen lies between Hamburg and Hanover in the middle of the Lünebur ...
,
Holxen and
Räber.
History
The first known written instance of the name was as Sutherburg in 1004.
In 1847, the railway line
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 ...
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Uelzen
Uelzen (; ), officially the Hanseatic City of Uelzen (), is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the district of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality.
Uelz ...
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Lüneburg
Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German Bundesland (Germany), state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic League, Hanseatic city, Hambur ...
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Harburg–
Wilhelmsburg was opened, and
Suderburg railway station was opened in 1850 and extended in 1859.
In 1957, the villages Graulingen, Oldendorf I and Suderburg were merged into Suderburg.
Notable people
* Sophus Schmidt (1792–1841), Hanoveran liberation fighter, bailiff in Bleckede and landowner in Suderburg
* Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Hillmer (1831–1916), building master
* Karl Hillmer (1869–1944), director of the Wiesenbauschule
* Carsten Kadach (born 1964), former
FIFA
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assistant
Sources
The text includes a translation of part of the
German Wikipedia article.
References
Uelzen (district)
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