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 linesIKN Business Structure
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)
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