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The associated community Wathlingen consists of the member communities Adelheidsdorf, Nienhagen and Wathlingen and has an area of 68,52km². It was founded in 1973 as public body.
Adelsheidsdorf is an integration of Großmoor, Adelheidsdorf and Dasselsbruch. The individual villages developed during the cultivation of the Großen or Müggenburger Moor. An expansive area, which stretched in the past from Celle to Ramlingen. The dukes of Celle dukes made use of the moor and at the beginning of the 18th-century, peat cutting experienced its heydays. Adelheidsdorf began as a colony along the causeway from Hanover to Celle. The village was named in honour of the then Queen Adelheid of England and Hanover in 1831, wife of Wilhelm IV.
There is a performance-testing station here, for the young Hanover stallions.
Dasselsbruch arose from the estate Dasselsgut, built in 1852. With the construction of the state moor administration, the first building was constructed in Großmoor in 1914.
Today, roughly 2.500 people live here on an area of over 33 qkm. Expansive meadows with grazing horses and cows shape the former moor landscape. Pure leisure time enjoyment - for equestrians, cyclists and hikers!
Address Community Adelheidsdorf:
Am Schmiedeberg 1, 29352 Adelheidsdorf, Telephone: +49 (0)5144 491-31
Mayor's administration representative: Lothar Engelke, e-Mail: Lothar.Engelke@wathlingen.de
Nienhagen (with Nienhorst) is a former Hagen settlement that was founded in 1211 with the building of a monastery. Big crude oil deposits were discovered here in the nineteen twenties. In the thirties and forties Nienhagen was Germany's biggest oil extraction region. Nienhagen is today a modern village with lovely old Lower Saxony half-timbered buildings.