Town in Lower Saxony, Germany
Neustadt am Rübenberge (Low German : Niestadt ) is a town in the district of Hannover , in Lower Saxony , Germany . At 357 km2 (138 sq mi ), 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 .
Boroughs
Mayor
Dominic Herbst (Alliance 90/The Greens) has served as mayor since 2019.[1] He succeeded Uwe Sternbeck (Alliance 90/The Greens), who had been the mayor from 2004.
Twin towns – sister cities
Neustadt am Rübenberge is twinned with:[3]
Notable people
Melanie Brinkmann , 2020
Friedrich Dedekind (c. 1524–1598 ), 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 .[4]
Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), Prussian General and army reformer.[5]
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
See also
References
External links
Media related to Neustadt am Rübenberge at Wikimedia Commons
Coat of Arms of Hanover district
International National Geographic Other