Böddenstedt

Böddenstedt
Subdivision of Suderburg
Location of Böddenstedt
Böddenstedt Böddenstedt
Coordinates: 52°55′51.96″N 10°26′35.88″E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Uelzen
Municipality	Suderburg
Elevation	61 m (200 ft)
Population  (2007)
• Total	535
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	29556
Dialling codes	05826

Böddenstedt's coat of arms

Böddenstedt is a village in the municipality of Suderburg in the collective municipality of Suderburg and lies in southwest of the district of Uelzen in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Geography

The farming and handicrafts village of Böddenstedt lies between Hamburg and Hanover in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath. The Stahlbach stream – formerly also called the Böddenstedter Aue – flows along the southern edge of the village from west to east and is accompanied by fish ponds and a flat countryside of meadows and pasture. Böddenstedt has the form of a Haufendorf or irregularly nucleated village.

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  1701 thatched timber-framed house in Mühlenstraße
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  Water mill converted into a house
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  The millpond
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  Typical heath farm in Böddenstedt (from 1800)

Personalities

• Klaus Wiswe (born 30 October 1955 in Böddenstedt), German politician (CDU), full-time chief executive (Landrat) of the district of Celle, chairman of the Lower Saxon District Committee (Niedersächsischer Landkreistag)