Calberlah

Calberlah is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor

• 4.1 traffic

Geography

Geographical Location

Calberlah is on the plateau of the Papenteich between the Riede secret and the mill Riede. The community belongs to the Samtgemeinde Isenbuttel, which has its administrative headquarters in the same place Isenbuttel.

Community structure

The quarters are:

• Allenbüttel
• Allerbüttel
• Brunsbuttel
• Calberlah
• Edesbüttel
• Jelpke

History

The village was first mentioned in 1318 as Kaluerlege documented.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the municipalities Allenbüttel, Allerbüttel, Edesbüttel, Jelpke and Wettmershagen were incorporated.

Policy

Parish council

From the last local elections in 2006, the following composition of the municipal council (in brackets the result of the year 2001) showed:

• CDU: 47.71 % ( 56.58 % ), 8 seats (9 seats)
• SPD: 35.20 % ( 32.41 %), 6 seats ( 5 seats )
• UWG: 10.75% ( 11.01 % ), 2 seats ( 1 seat)
• Brinkmann: 6.33% (--- ), 1 seat ( 0 seats)

The turnout was 50.51%.

Mayor

The honorary mayor John White was elected on 9 September 2010. His deputy is Uwe Kunkel.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

• Calberlah lies west of the A39 motorway, which runs from Braunschweig to Wolfsburg.
• Calberlah has a break point on the railway line Taught Berlin. The station is served by trains running between Wolfsburg and Hannover regional express trains per hour in both directions. Long-distance trains of high-speed line Hannover- Berlin pass through the station with up to 200 km / h without maintenance. Two kilometers west of the breakpoint crosses under the track in the 970 -meter-long Elbe Lateral Canal tunnel the Elbe Lateral Canal.
• The Elbe Lateral Canal branches off to the municipality from the Mittelland Canal.