Linteln Geest

The Lintelner Geest ( also Lint ( e ) ler Geest, in some cards, also called Verden Heath ) is a moraine landscape in Lower Saxony and belongs administratively to the municipality Kirchlinteln.

Geography

The Lintelner Geest forms the eastern part of Achim- Verden Geest. Allow you to include the historical Duchy of Verden or the present district of Verden belonging transition from Stader Geest the Lüneburg Heath. Biggest place is Kirchlinteln. The Lintelner Geest borders on the Aller in the Southwest, the Middle Weser Region to the west and the Wümme lowlands to the north.

Landscape

The region is dominated by agriculture. Are typical moraine hills, small villages and isolated farmsteads and extensive forest, heath and moorland. In some villages the Lintelner Geest there are many nurseries.

Bog body Brammer

In a marsh southwest of the town Kreepen at Brammer 's husband Kreepen was discovered as a male bog body on June 12, 1903, the area of ​​a deserted village. In a wooden box, she was sent to the Museum of Ethnology in Berlin. When the bombing of the city during the Second World War, however, the corpse was lost. In Moormuseum Elisabethfehn a tuft of bog body is on display.

European Village Renewal Award

In the merger of the towns located in the Lintelner Geest Bendingbostel, Bruns Brock, Sehlingen, Kreepen, Schafwinkel and Odeweg the region won the European Village Renewal Prize of the Association for Rural Development and Village Renewal in 2000.

Places

  • Bendingbostel
  • Bruns Brock Small Linteln
  • Schmomühlen
  • Heidkrug
  • Wedehof
  • Brammer
  • Odeweg
  • St. Pauli

Attractions

  • Original village centers with buildings in a typical Lower Saxon style
  • Churches in Kirchlinteln and Bruns Brock
  • Brammer lake
  • Lindhoopdenkmal Kirchlinteln
  • Nature Reserve Barrow Heath at Kirchlinteln
  • Windmill in Holtum ( Geest )
  • Windmill in Schmomühlen
  • Region in Europe
  • Region in Lower Saxony
  • Kirchlinteln
  • Geest
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