Heidekreis ("Heath district") is a district ( Landkreis ) in Lower Saxony , Germany . It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Harburg , Lüneburg , Uelzen , Celle , Hanover , Nienburg , Verden and Rotenburg .
17-478: Garbsen ( German pronunciation: [ˈɡaʁpsn̩] ) is a town in the district of Hanover , in Lower Saxony , Germany. It is situated on the river Leine , approximately 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) northwest of Hanover . The name Garbsen can be traced back to 1223. Today's 13 city districts have partly developed independently until the city of Garbsen was formed within its current boundaries during
34-448: A consequence, the district is much larger in population than any other district of the state. Its administrative body is the regional parliament ( Regionsparlament ), headed by the regional president ( Regionspräsident ), which since 2021 is Steffen Krach ( SPD ). The members of the regional parliament are elected once every five years and the regional president is elected also every five years in local elections. The city of Hanover
51-412: Is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Heidekreis , Celle , Gifhorn , Peine , Hildesheim , Hameln-Pyrmont , Schaumburg and Nienburg . The Hanover Region district has a unique legal status among the districts of Lower Saxony. It includes the city of Hanover (the state capital) which has the same privileges as a kreisfreie Stadt , a city that is not part of a district. As
68-472: Is so characteristic for the district, it calls itself "the Heath District". The capital is Bad Fallingbostel , although it has only 11,800 inhabitants and is only the fifth-largest town in the district. The coat of arms displays: Free municipalities Unincorporated area Cultural matters are looked after by those charged with communal cultural support within the towns and municipalities,
85-621: The Weser-Aller-Flachland natural area and is situated between the lowlands of the river Leine and the Otternhagener Moor. The differences in altitude are only a few metres. The town consists of 13 districts: The soils in the city area are predominantly sandy or boggy (Moorgeest), with the exception of the loamy-clayey soils in the area of the Leine floodplain. The sandy to gravelly deposits are fluviatile formations of
102-553: The clays were also mined and used for brick production (Hannoversche Ziegelei at the Kastendamm: today Schwarzer See and Berenbosteler See, Flemmingsche Ziegelei in the field "Im Kolke": today backfilled (contaminated site) and built over as the Garbsen-Ost industrial area). Garbsen is twinned with: Hanover (district) Hanover Region ( German : Region Hannover ) is a district in Lower Saxony , Germany . It
119-484: The headquarters ( Hauptquartier ) of Military District XI ( Wehrkreis XI ), which was responsible for Braunschweig , Anhalt , and part of Hanover. It was also the garrison town for the 71st Infantry Division of the German Army . The district surrounds the city of Hanover and includes the outskirts of its metropolitan area. The Leine river enters the district in the south, runs through Hanover and leaves to
136-527: The independent urban development of Garbsen in the following years. In the first decades of the post-war period, Garbsen was primarily a classic commuter town for numerous workers in Hanover's industrial enterprises such as VW Nutzfahrzeuge , Continental or VARTA , today Johnson Controls . Since then Garbsen has experienced a significant change in the economic structure. Predominantly medium-size enterprises from different industries were created or settled,
153-516: The last cold period, the Weichsel cold period, e.g. in the area of Altgarbsen and Havelse, as well as elsewhere, such as Frielingen and Meyenfeld, meltwater deposits partly with overlaying ground moraine of the Saale cold period (Drenthe stage). Furthermore, fine to medium sand dunes can be found in the area of Garbsen Switzerland and Ricklingen Castle. These dunes can also be found at the "Hexenturm" in
170-729: The neighbouring Hinüberschen Garten and at the Glockenberg in the monastery forest of Marienwerder. The sand was mined in several places in (old) Garbsen in the time beginning before the First World War until 1970 and was burned to lime sand bricks in the Garbsen hard stone works (Kiebitzmoor, "Garbsen", "Niedersachsen", "Hansa" and "Hannover"). Thus Garbsen's hills disappeared, and today only street names remind us of them (among them Osterberg, Mühlenberg, Streitberg, Pottberg). Sand and gravel for construction purposes were extracted in
187-1574: The north. In the northwest is the Steinhuder Meer , a lake with an area of 32 km (12 sq mi), within the region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest . The coat of arms was granted on May 1, 2003. The cloverleaf is from the arms of the city of Hanover. The lion was the heraldic animal of the Welfen family, which ruled the region from the Middle Ages until 1866. [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] 52°25′12″N 9°43′12″E / 52.42000°N 9.72000°E / 52.42000; 9.72000 Heidekreis Historically
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#1732786958419204-752: The number of the jobs more than doubled itself. With the Production Technology Center (PZH) and the Underwater Technology Center, Garbsen is home to significant parts of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Leibniz University of Hannover . By the winter semester 2019/2020, the entire Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is to be united on the Garbsen campus, which is currently under construction. Garbsen belongs to
221-545: The parishes, the banks, the Lüneburg Regional Association and private cultural initiatives. The district is a member of the Lüneburg Regional Association ( Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband ), which looks after regional, cultural-political tasks. There are 29 nature reserves in the Heidekreis. The largest one ( Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve ) has an area of 13,222 ha in the territory of
238-711: The pit of today's Blue Lake. Near-surface clays and claystones of the Lower Cretaceous can be found in the area of the Berenbostel district. In the area of Berenbostel the marly claystones of marine origin belong to the formation of the Barremium and the Aptium, further north to Stelingen, Osterwald and Heitlingen the claystones belong to the formation of the Hauterivium. Since the middle of the 19th century
255-539: The region belonged to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and its successor states . The district was established in 1977 by merging the former districts of Soltau and Fallingbostel as Soltau-Fallingbostel ( German pronunciation: [ˈzɔltaʊ falɪŋˈbɔstəl] ). On 1 August 2011 it was renamed to Heidekreis. The district includes the western half of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ). Since this landscape
272-495: The regional reform in 1974. In the course of industrialization and especially after the Second World War , the population of Garbsen and its predecessor municipalities increased significantly. In 1963, the current district Auf der Horst was created as a residential and working class district for up to 10,000 residents. Originally planned by the state capital Hannover, Auf der Horst became an important factor for
289-401: Was not part of the district until 2001, when the old Hanover District ( Landkreis Hannover ) and the city then known officially as District-free City of Hanover ( kreisfreie Stadt Hannover ) were merged in order to form the new Hanover Region district, not to be confused with the former governmental district of Hanover ( Regierungsbezirk Hannover ). During World War II , Hanover was
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