Sassenburg-Stüde

52.55583333333310.67722222222271Koordinaten: 52 ° 33 ' 21 " N, 10 ° 40' 38" E

Stüde is part of the municipality of Sass castle in Gifhorn

Stüde is a municipality in the district of Sassenburg Gifhorn ( Lower Saxony). The district covers about 1900 hectares and consists mainly of forest land, including much pine growth on sandy soils. Close to the city leads the Elbe Lateral Canal over. There are also the 100 -acre recreation area Bernsteinsee lies with the ten acre lake. Near the village there is an airfield of the Aero Club Wolfsburg eV

Among the clubs of the village include the Volunteer Fire Sass Burg- Stüde, the Marathon Club Stüde, the Aero Club Wolfsburg eV, the FSG oak Stüde, the shooting club and the quintal Brothers.

History

On March 1, 1974 Stüde was incorporated into the new municipality of Sass castle.

Forest fire disaster

Nationwide attention gained Stüde in 1975, when there on August 8, a forest and moorland fire got out of control, and soon after jumped over the Elbe Lateral Canal and became the largest by area of the catastrophic forest fires this summer.

Channel Marathon

Since 1991, a marathon is discharged with start and finish in Stüde, which runs almost entirely on the crown of the same channel - side channel. 1994-2003 the unusual discharge form of a double marathon was in addition to the "normal " Marathon offered: two marathons within 24 hours overall. In the night from 31 December 1999 to 1 January 2000 took place under the title "Millennium Run " on the Stüder route of the world's last marathon of the year in 1999 and also the first European New Year instead. The run attracts participants from quite long distances: the distance records hold since 1995 in the marathon Andrzej Nowak from Poland and in the double marathon Paul Houston from Brisbane / Australia.