Neustadt am Rübenberge

Neustadt am Rübenberge (; ) is a town in the district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At , it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabitants live there. It is in a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest.

Founding

was founded around 1200, and recorded as a () in 1215. In 1426 it was recorded as und in 1523 as .

Boroughs

• Dudensen
• Eilvese
• Esperke
• Hagen
• Mandelsloh
• Mariensee

Mayor

Dominic Herbst (Alliance 90/The Greens) has served as mayor since 2019. He succeeded Uwe Sternbeck (Alliance 90/The Greens), who had been the mayor from 2004.

Economy

Construction

• IKN GmbH (Ingenieurbüro-Kühlerbau-Neustadt GmbH), design and manufacturing of coolers and pyro lines

Twin towns – sister cities

Neustadt am Rübenberge is twinned with:

• La Ferté-Macé, France (1980)

Notable people

• Friedrich Dedekind (), humanist, theologian and writer
• Euricius Dedekind (1554–1619), composer
• Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672–1751), composer, singer
• Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776), poet of ballads.
• Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), Prussian General and army reformer.
• Georg Grabenhorst (1899–1997), author of Zero Hour
• Melanie Brinkmann (born 1974), virologist, worked on the Cytomegalovirus.
• Sami Haddadin (born 1980), electrical engineer, computer scientist and university professor re. robotics and artificial intelligence

Sport

• Robert Enke (1977–2009), football goalkeeper, died here; played 287 games and 8 for Germany
• Deniz Aycicek (born 1990), footballer, played over 200 games
• Sebastian Ernst (born 1995), footballer, played over 250 games

See also

• Eilvese transmitter (demolished in 1931)

References

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