Osnabrück is a district (Landkreis) in the southwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. With 2,121 km² it is the second largest district of Lower Saxony.
Schwarmstedt is a municipality in the Heidekreis in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the confluence of the rivers Aller and Leine, approx. 20 km south of Bad Fallingbostel, and 30 km east of Nienburg. Further districts of the municipality are
Bad Bevensen is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated to the east of the Lüneburg Heath. The Ilmenau river, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Bad Bevensen. Bad Bevensen is a well-known spa town.
Rehden is a municipality in the district of Diepholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately eight km east of Diepholz.
Bad Eilsen is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 11 km (6.8 mi) southwest of Stadthagen, and 13 km (8.1 mi) southeast of Minden.
Bad Bodenteich is a municipality in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 17 km southeast of Uelzen.
Altes Amt Ebstorf is a former Samtgemeinde in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat was in the village Ebstorf. At the 1 November 2011 local government reform, the Samtgemeinden Bevensen and Altes Amt Ebstorf merged to form the new Samtgemeinde Bevensen-Ebstorf.
Ebstorf is a municipality in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km northwest of Uelzen, and 25 km south of Lüneburg.
Luckau (Wendland) is a village or Gemeinde (municipality) in the south of the Kreis of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony, Germany, where it forms part of the Samtgemeinde of Lüchow (Wendland).
Stöckse is a municipality in the district of Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the forest "Krähe" between Langendamm and Steimbke.
Samtgemeinde Hankensbüttel is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km north-east of Gifhorn and 20 km north of Uelzen. 9.739 citizens are living in the Samtgemeinde Hankensbüttel.
The Elbe Lateral Canal, is a 115-kilometre (71 mi) long canal in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from the Mittelland Canal near Gifhorn to the Elbe in Artlenburg. It forms an important transport connection between southern and northern Germany, and it provides a bypass of a section of the Elbe with limited navigability. At the construction start it was also thought as a bypass outside the GDR, considered politically unreliable.
Bederkesa is a former Samtgemeinde in the district of Cuxhaven, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat was in the village Bad Bederkesa. It was disbanded in January 2015, when its member municipalities merged into the new municipality Geestland.
Ahlerstedt is a municipality in the District of Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Bodenteich is a former Samtgemeinde in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat was in the village Bad Bodenteich. At the 1 November 2011 local government reform, the Samtgemeinden Bodenteich and Wrestedt merged to form the new Samtgemeinde Aue.
A Samtgemeinde is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. Samtgemeinden are local government associations of municipalities, equivalent to the Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Brandenburg, and the Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Ebstorf Abbey is a Lutheran convent of nuns that is located near the Lower Saxon town of Uelzen, in Germany.
Medingen Abbey or Medingen Convent is a former Cistercian nunnery. Today it is a residence for women of the Protestant Lutheran faith near the Lower Saxon town of Bad Bevensen and is supervised by the Monastic Chamber of Hanover. The current director of the abbey (Äbtissin) is the art historian Dr Kristin Püttmann.
Bevensen-Ebstorf is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the town Bad Bevensen. It was formed on 1 November 2011 by the merger of the former Samtgemeinden Bevensen and Altes Amt Ebstorf.
Schladen-Werla is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was formed on 1 November 2013, when the municipalities of the former Samtgemeinde Schladen: Gielde, the town of Hornburg, Schladen proper, and Werlaburgdorf were merged.
