Hitzacker

Hitzacker (Elbe ) is a town in the northern part of the district Lüchow -Dannenberg in Lower Saxony ( also compare: Wendland). It is part of Elbtalaue.

• 2.1 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 5.1 Museums
• 5.2 Structures
• 5.3 Other

• 6.1 Tourism
• 6.2 traffic
• 6.3 Education

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 7.2 Connected to Hitzacker

Geography

Geographical Location

Hitzacker is located at the confluence of Jeetzel into the Elbe. Be, at the southeastern foot of which is Hitzacker, natural environments already counted the Lüneburg Heath (compare: Drawehn ): While the so-called Elbhöhen ( " Klötzie " too), include the lowland areas of the old town to the Elbe Valley.

The altitude ranges from 11 m above sea level. NN at the Jeetzelmündung up to 83 m above sea level. NN on the " vineyard " in the Klötzie. The further downriver location " Kniepenberg " at Drethem measures 86 m above sea level. NN and also allows a panoramic view over the Elbe valley.

Boroughs

The city is Hitzacker since the municipal reform of 1972 from the twelve districts listed below. In addition, there are other living spaces.

• Bahrdorf
• Grabau
• Harlingen
• Hitzacker
• Kähmen
• Nienwedel until March 16, 1936 Niendorf
• Pussade
• Seerau
• Tießau
• Tiesmesland
• Wietzetze
• Wussegel

Residential places

• Dötzingen, Good
• Hagen, Good
• Leitstade
• Marwedel
• Meudelfitz, Good
• Meudelfitz, settlement
• Posade, forest house
• Sarchem
• Schmessau
• Schmardau

Before 1972 belonged Pussade and Forestry House Posade to the municipality Harlingen, Dötzingen Good, Good Hagen, Marwedel, Good Meudelfitz, settlement Meudelfitz and Sarchem the city Hitzacker and Leitstade to Wietzetze. The goods Dötzingen and Hagen and Marwedel are now within the local situation Hitzacker.

History

People settled as early as 3000 BC on Hitzackersee; for over three thousand years the area has been populated continuously.

On the vineyard beside the old town today Slavs built in the eighth century a castle. So Hitzacker was an important trading center even before the city's founding. The St. John's church was built in the 12th century. The town itself was founded in 1258, after which the castle lost its importance. 1296 leaves the Margrave Otto of Brandenburg destroy the vineyard castle, because from here the robber baron Hermann Ribe raided merchant trains.

A Hitzacker question deed dated January 20, 1376 has the following contents:

The Dukes Wenzlaus and Albrecht of Saxony and Lüneburg and Duke Bernhard of Brunswick and Lüneburg allow the council of the city of Lüneburg, 30 löthigen Mark, which he next April 13th and the 150 löthigen marks he on the following 25 December for they the knight Ludolf taken over by Tzellenstede pay, and also the 100 löthigen Mark, which the council has paid the Knights Order of mountain and Siegfried Bock for her, so 280 löthige Mark, and the maturing interest, if the council this money not to the days mentioned refund to hit the pledged sum of locks Bleckede and Hitzacker and the duties to Lüneburg and Hitzacker, also vow not to shock the Rath of the pledge pieces before they have refunded him the deposit and the above sum of money.

In 1548, the Friday after Jubilate, incinerating a conflagration a location Hitzacker to the church and a house.

Augustus the Younger built from 1605 to 1635 in Hitzacker a small but successful reign with their own royal household in the city on. He collected at this time already extensive books that were housed in a separate building and library with over 13,000 volumes formed an essential basis of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. 1642 plundered Swedish soldiers under Colonel George of Derfflinger the castle and the town of Hitzacker. The lock will expire on, and the area was bought by the city council and was rebuilt. The library has been transferred at this time already to Wolfenbüttel.

In 1610, a number of people in Hitzacker and its environs were accused of witchcraft and wizardry, then the other accused under torture as an accomplice.

On December 27, 1668 burned down church, parish and eight town houses in the city Hitzacker.

In the extinct in the 18th century polabischen ( " Wendish " ) language of the area was called Hitzacker Ljauci ( Lgautztgi ).

In the era of National Socialism a secret tank farm for fuel and lubricating oils was operated by the Economic Research Association in Hitzacker. It was the end of the war severely damaged by bombs and dismantled until 1948.

During the German division existed in Hitzacker an inch Commissioner and Customs boat station, patrolled their staff formed by the same inner-German border.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Bahrdorf, Grabau, Harlingen, Kähmen, Nienwedel, Seerau, Tießau, Wietzetze and Wussegel were incorporated.

Policy

The city is part of the parliamentary constituency Hitzacker 48 Elbe and the Bundestag constituency 38 Lüchow -Dannenberg - Lüneburg.

City ​​council

The City Council of Hitzacker is composed of 15 women council and councilors. From the local elections of 11 September 2011, a turnout of 51.4 % ( 2.7 ), the following composition was produced:

/ -: Unlike the local elections 2006

Mayor

Mayor of Hitzacker Holger Mertins.

Twinning

Gemeente wiping in the Netherlands ( completed)

Religions

On the eastern edge of the old town, the church of St. John from the 12th century, the region north of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Lüchow -Dannenberg is belonging.

The Catholic Church of St. Mary the Queen was built in 1963/64. Last branch church of the parish of St. Agnes in Luechow, it was profaned, 2006. Since 2011, the building is used as an art gallery " octagon ".

The New Apostolic congregation Hitzacker 2011 was connected to the church in Dannenberg.

Culture and sights

• City Island with half-timbered houses and the Customs House, built in 1589

Museums

• Archaeological Center Hitzacker
• Museum " The Old Customs House "
• Hunting lodge and Forest Museum in Goehrde

Structures

• St. John's Church
• Kate Miner mill
• Pumping station, sewage and flood protection wall (built in 2006-2008, cost: more than 30 million euros )

Other

• Excavations at Hitzacker Lake
• Sacrificial stone at Pudripp
• Game reserve in Hitzacker
• Princely graves of Marwedel
• Megalithic tombs or burial mounds at Pussade
• The " WIFO ": former underground storage tank at the large -scale forestry Dötzinger before Hitzacker
• Hitzacker Archers, the " Archers from 1395 to Hitzacker (Elbe ) eV ", is one of the oldest in Europe.

Economy and infrastructure

Tourism

Hitzacker can look back on a long tradition as a tourist. So organized by the Local History Working Group Lüchow -Dannenberg ( HALD ) in 1983, a meeting entitled "100 years of tourism in Hitzacker 50 years home and museum association". Around the turn of the century came seeking relaxation from the Hamburg area and the region around Hannover to the spa hotel in the vineyard. A separate source of drinking fountain and bath applications were for Kururlauber available. Day trips on the water, over the Elbe took place, and there was a separate shipping line Hamburg -Lauenburg - Doemitz.

Meanwhile Hitzacker is a recognized health resort. Many hotels specialize in spa and beauty offers, and there is a spa area with Kneipp pool and a barefoot path.

Hitzacker is the site of musical events such as the Summer Music Festival Hitzacker under the artistic direction of Dr. Markus fine or music week Hitzacker under the artistic direction of Ludwig Güttler. There are three museums, including the Archaeological Center Hitzacker with an open-air museum in the Bronze Age.

On the vineyard is cultivated for several centuries, and once a year the harvest is celebrated with the reigning queen of wine. Hitzacker is involved in several marketing partnerships, the city is part of the German Framework Road, the Lower Saxony Asparagus Route and partners of the German - Dutch Orange Route.

Traffic

Hitzacker has across the Wendland train a railroad to Dannenberg and Lüneburg. Another station on the same rail line located in the district Leitstade. Bus services in the direction of Lüneburg, Uelzen and Dannenberg, as well as to the city of Lüchow. In Hitzacker there is a passenger ferry across the Elbe.

Education

In Hitzacker there are three schools:

• Primary school Hitzacker
• Bernhard Varenius School
• Free School Hitzacker

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• August Varenius (1620-1684), theologian, professor
• Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650), physician, geographer
• Rudolf August of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1627-1704), Duke
• Anton Ulrich of Brunswick and Lüneburg -Wolfenbüttel (1633-1714), Duke, writer and art lover
• Simon Leonard of Haerlem (1701-1775), Upper dike inspector, son of the dike inspector Blasius of Haerlem that since 1700 the dike supervision held
• Wohltmann Ferdinand (1857-1919), agricultural scientist
• Claus von Amsberg (1926-2002), German diplomat and Prince of the Netherlands
• Hans Georg Ahrens ( b. 1944 ), German opera singer
• Rudi Müller- Glöge (* 1951), German lawyer and vice president of the Federal Labour Court
• Jürgen Stahlbock (* 1951), German educator and children's author

Connected to Hitzacker

• Hermann Ribe (13th century), robber barons, who raided merchant trains from Hitzacker.
• Augustus the Younger (1579-1666), Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg, built in Hitzacker an extensive library on
• Kristina Söderbaum (1912-2001), Swedish actress, particularly successful during the Third Reich, lived and died here last Hitzacker
• Helmut Dau (1926-2010), lawyer, librarian, lived in Hitzacker and wrote books here
• Heiner Cruiser (1944-1985), Lower Saxon Landtag, lived in Hitzacker