Wrestedt
Wrestedt is a municipality in the midst of the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Uelzen, Lower Saxony, she is a member municipality and administrative headquarters of the velvet municipality floodplain.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 4.1 lock Uelzen
- 4.2 dialect
- 5.1 Taking of Hostages
Geography
Community structure
Wrestedt consists of the villages Bollensen, Breitenhees, Threaten, Emern, ester wood, Gavendorf, United Pretzier, Hamborg, Kallenbrock, Kahlstorf, Small Bollensen, Little London, Little Pretzier, Könau, Kroetze, Kroetzmühle, Lehmke, Nettelkamp, Niendorf II, Nienwohlde, Ostedt, Stadensen with the living space Streuberg, Stederdorf, Wieren and Wrestedt.
History
The first written reference to the town can be found in a document, when King Arnulf of Carinthia on June 30, 892 Count Egbert et al 36 hooves in Bardengau in Wrestedt gave.
In the great fire in Wrestedt, on the night of 15-16. August 1855, were 28 homes and 34 outbuildings, including Wrestedter chapel, school and many outbuildings, cremated.
On 1 November 2011, the Samtgemeinde Wrestedt was dissolved. Wrestedt was part and the seat of the newly established Samtgemeinde floodplain.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Esterholz, Lehmke, Niendorf II and Stederdorf were incorporated.
On November 1, 2011 Stadensen and Wieren were added. Since 1 July 1972 included the formerly independent communities Breitenhees, Kallenbrock, Nettelkamp and Nienwohlde to Stadensen and Bollensen, Threaten, Emern, Kahlstorf, Könau, Kroetze (up to September 10, 1936 Kroitze ) and Ostedt to Wieren.
Policy
Parish council
The Council of the Municipality Wrestedt is composed of 13 deputies.
Local elections on 11 September 2011
Mayor
Mayor is currently Heinz -Hermann Schulze.
Culture and sights
Lock Uelzen
Not far from Wrestedt in Esterholz, one finds the lock Uelzen. It consists of an old lock ( Uelzen I) from the construction of the canal and a new lock ( Uelzen II), which was opened in December 2006. Both are designed as savings locks and have an effective length of 185 m and a height of 23 m. The new lock Uelzen II is 12.50 m with a foot wider than the old and is considered the largest savings lock in the world.
Dialect
The space around Wrestedt belongs to heideostfälischen dialect region. Heideostfälisch is a transitional dialect of Eastphalian to Northern Low Saxon. The northern boundary runs approximately between Bad Bevensen and Bienenbuttel. Says the Wrestedter for me / me and you / you or dik mik, it is said in Lüneburg already mi / th.
Others
Hostages
Nationwide gained fame Wrestedt in April 2002, when there two women were taken hostage in a bank robbery. The three perpetrators were subsequently fled with them across Europe. A hostage was able to flee to a police vehicle at a refueling stop in Poland, the second was released in the Ukrainian city of Rivne. Well an hour later, the men of the Ukrainian police presented. The perpetrators, Artur F., Henry K. and H. Vitali, three young men from the area of Uelzen, then sat for six months in Kiev in custody and were then shipped to Germany. Artur F. received a sentence of eight years and nine months for extortionate kidnapping in coincidence with heavy extortion and hostage-taking, as well as a violation of the Arms Act. His two accomplices were punished with six years and nine months.