Waddeweitz
Waddeweitz is a municipality in the district Lüchow -Dannenberg in Lower Saxony. It belongs to Samtgemeinde Lüchow ( Wendland).
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Mayor
- 5.1 churches
- 6.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical Location
Waddeweitz is located in the Natural Park of the Elbe Valley.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the villages:
- Bishop
- Diahren
- Dickfeitzen
- Dommatzen
- Small Gaddau
- Great Gaddau
- Gohlau
- Hohenvolkfien
- Kiefen
- Toad
- Kukate
- Maddau
- Marlin
- Salderatzen
- Sareitz
- Schlanze
- Waddeweitz
- Small Wittfeitzen
- Great Wittfeitzen
- Zebelin
History
Incorporations
On 1 July 1972, the municipalities Bishop, Diahren, Dickfeitzen, Dommatzen, Gohlau, United Gaddau, Kiefen, Small Gaddau, Kukate, Marlin, Salderatzen, Schlanze, Wittfeitzen and Zebelin were incorporated.
Policy
The community Waddeweitz belongs to Parliament Constituency 48 Elbe and the Bundestag constituency 38 Lüchow -Dannenberg - Lüneburg.
Parish council
The municipal council of Waddeweitz is composed of 9 women council and councilors.
- CDU 4 seats
- SPD 1 seat
- UWG 4 seats
(As at municipal election held on September 10, 2011 )
Mayor
The honorary mayor Frank Socha was elected on September 10, 2011.
Religions
In the community Waddeweitz there are the two Lutheran churches Zebelin and Wittfeitzen, who have a common parish in coastal parishes with the Church of Peace (Coastal), Krummasel and Meuchefitz. The chapel community Dickfeitzen is connected to the parish in Clenze.
In Zebelin is the youth workshop of diakonia, housed an institution of the Church Lüchow -Dannenberg in the former town hall.
Besides the two cemeteries of the churches in Wittfeitzen and Zebelin there is a small cemetery of the village community Kiefen.
Culture and sights
Churches
The stone church in Zebelin has been mentioned in the 15th century for the first time. The pulpit altar is from the 17th century. Since 2010, the church is being renovated and the color scheme from 1910 restored.
Wittfeitzen is a parish seat since the Middle Ages. The present brick church was built in 1872 in neo-Gothic style and has an organ of P. Furtwängler & Hammer.
In 1900, a small simple chapel with a roof turret and a small bell from 1975 was built in Dickfeitzen.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
- The B 493 Uelzen - Lüchow directly by the municipality.