• Source: Nienburg, Lower Saxony

Nienburg (German: [ˈniːn.ˌbʊʁk] , official name: Nienburg/Weser) (Low German: Nienborg, Neenborg or Negenborg) is a town and capital of the district Nienburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.




Geography


Situated on the scenic German Timber-Frame Road, Nienburg lies on the river Weser, approximately 55 km (34 mi) southeast of Bremen, and 45 km (28 mi) northwest of Hanover. Nienburg is the largest town in the Middle Weser Region.




Demography



(as of Dec. 31st)




= Structure

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Nienburg, including quarters

Erichshagen
Holtorf
Langendamm
Schäferhof/Kattriede
Nordertor
Leintor
Lehmwandlung
Alpheide




History


The major reason for the emergence and development of Nienburg into the largest city in the Middle Weser region was its location at a convenient ford in the Weser River, leading to multiple trade routes radiating from the location. As early as 1025 the location was referred to as Negenborg, i.e. New Castle. In 1215 it began to be referred to as a city, a civitas, when Count Henry I of Hoya began the residence of his ruling line. From 1582 until 1866 the Guelph (Welf) Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg controlled the county, except for Napoleonic French rule from 1803 to 1813. In 1871, it became part of the German Empire.
During World War II, it was the location of German prisoner-of-war camps Oflag X-B and Stalag X-C, in which French, Polish, Belgian, Romanian, Serbian, Italian and Soviet POWs were held.
In the wake of the war, a large number of livestock was killed in the region by an unknown predator, called Lichtenmoor Strangler.
The former County of Wölpe was the seat of the Grafen (counts) von Wölpe with its associated castle. The castle (Burg Wölpe) was destroyed in the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud in 1522.




Politics






= Mayor

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Since the 2021 elections, the mayor is Jan Wendorf (independent). The previous mayor was Henning Onkes (independent). He was reelected in 2014 against three competitors.




= Local council (Stadtrat)

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The 38 members of the "Stadtrat" are divided among:

CDU: 13, among them the second deputy mayor Wilhelm Schlemermeyer
SPD:14, among them the first deputy mayor Rolf Warnecke
Alliance 90/The Greens: 6, among them the third deputy mayor Hedda Freese
FDP: 1
Wählergemeinschaft - Independent Union of Citizens WG 3
The Left (Germany): 1
One additional vote by the elected mayor of Nienburg, Mr. Henning Onkes, who doesn't belong to any political party
The elections in September 2016 showed the following results:

CDU: 13 seats
SPD: 12 seats
Alliance 90/The Greens: 5 seats
Wählergruppe Nienburg: 3seats
FDP: 2 seats
THE LEFT: 2 seats
ULN: 1 seat




Twin towns – sister cities



Nienburg is twinned with:

Bartoszyce, Poland
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Nienburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Vitebsk, Belarus




Notable people



Johann Georg Steigerthal (1666–1740), a court physician to George I of Great Britain in Hanover.
Ernst Teichmann (1869–1919), theologian and zoologist, worked on the tsetse fly
Heinrich Lübbe (1884–1940), engineer, worked for Dutch aircraft designer Anthony Fokker
Kurt Matthaei (1886–1974), lawyer and a Nazi Party politician
Ernst Thoms (1896–1983), a New Objectivity painter
Oskar Gröning (1921–2018), SS Unterscharführer at the Auschwitz concentration camp
Lutz Meyer-Gossner (born 1936), judge at the Federal Court from 1983 to 2001
Angelika Neuwirth (born 1943), an Islamic studies scholar
Susanne Schröter (born 1957), contemporary social Anthropologist
Carsten Sieling (born 1959), politician, mayor and president of the senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (SPD)
Maja Maranow (1961–2016), actress




= Sport

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Volker Finke (born 1948), football coach
Christine Traurig (born 1957), an American equestrian, bronze medallist in team dressage at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Levent Ayçiçek (born 1994), footballer, played over 320 games




See also


Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg




References






External links


Official website (in German)

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