Wessenstedt

Wessenstedt, surrounded by the Lüneburg Heath, is a district of Natendorf with about 150 inhabitants, turn to Samtgemeinde Bevensen - Ebstorf in the district of Uelzen, Lower Saxony heard.

Wessenstedt was known by a discovered near the village urn cemetery. The vessels were found on archaeologists for dating one of the four stages of the Iron Age (not Celtic, Lower Saxony Hallstatt period ) spatially on North Hanover, the so-called " level of Wessenstedt " ( 800-600 BC).

Characteristically are also Bronze Age aftermath, shallow burial mounds with small stone boxes, vessels with which the conical neck and belly are equal.

To Wessenstedt today also includes the former vineyard of the monastery Ebstorf. Although already turned out centuries ago that wine - growing in the sandy soils of the Heath is not successful, however, the name " wine Berghof " has been preserved until today. In the middle of the 20th century began to turn the area a tourist village with cottages of various sizes.

On July 1, 1972 Wessenstedt was incorporated into the municipality Natendorf.