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Discover Hambostel
The district Hambostel of in Lower Saxony is a district in Germany about 150 mi west of Berlin, the country's capital city.
Looking for a place to stay? we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Bispingen, Wietzendorf, Undeloh, Neuenkirchen and Egestorf. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 3°C / 37 °F
Morning Temperature | -1°C / 29 °F |
Evening Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
Night Temperature | 1°C / 34 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 83% |
Air Pressure | 998 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 12 km/h (7 mph) from North-East |
Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 84% of sky |
General Conditions | Snow |
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
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Sunday, 24th of November 2024
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Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 25th of November 2024
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Hotels and Places to Stay
Heide Park Abenteuerhotel
Soltauer Hof
Center Parcs Bispinger Heide
Schmucke Witwe
Eden Landhaus
Das Kleine Hotel
Bockelmann
Rieckmanns Heidehotel
Zum Postillion
Meyn
Videos from this area
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Kamindiele Soltau Folge 2 - Kaminofen richtig anheizen
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Kamindiele Soltau Folge 1 - Was ist die Kamindiele in Soltau?
Seit 2007 ist die Kamindiele-soltau.de Fachbetrieb für Kaminöfen und Pelletöfen von Oranier, Justus, Danskan, Contura, Cera Design. Auch andere Hersteller können Sie bei uns erwerben. ...
Desert Race Heide Park - Roller Coaster POV On Ride Accelerator Intamin (Theme Park Germany)
Desert Race Roller Coaster POV On Ride video Accelerator Intamin AG at Heide Park Theme Park in Germany. More infos on this attraction : http://www.e-coasters.com and http://blog.e-coasters.com...
Panorama-Turm @ Halloween Nights, Heide Park 2013
When Reinhard Mey's 'Above the Clouds' plays over the loudspeakers, it's time to climb aboard for a soaring ride into the skies above Heide-Park. The tower's circular glass dome travels to...
Halloween im Heide-Park Resort
HALLOWEEN NIGHTS An den ersten vier Samstagen im Oktober öffnet der Heide-Park seine Grusel-Pforten für schaurig-schöne Geisterstunden bis 22.00 Uhr. Wenn sich die Dunkelheit langsam...
Scream Heide Park - Free Fall Tower POV On Ride Gyro Drop Intamin (Theme Park Germany)
Scream Free Fall Tower POV On Ride video Gyro Drop Intamin at Heide Park Theme Park in Germany. More infos on this attraction : http://www.e-coasters.com and http://blog.e-coasters.com ......
Offroadscramble Delmsen 2008
Ausschnitte aller drei Läufe des fünften Durchgangs der Offroadscramble 2008 in der Kieskuhle Dittmern. Musste leider selber nach nur 3 Runden wg. mangelnden Kupplungsdrucks aufgeben. Hat...
Schweizer Bobbahn Heide Park - Roller Coaster POV On Ride Bobsled Mack Rides (Theme Park Germany)
Schweizer Bobbahn Roller Coaster POV On Ride video Bobsled Mack Rides at Heide Park Theme Park in Germany. More infos on this attraction : http://www.e-coasters.com and ...
Colossos Heide Park - Roller Coaster POV On Ride Wooden Coaster Intamin (Theme Park Germany)
Colossos Roller Coaster POV On Ride video Wooden Coaster Intamin AG at Heide Park Theme Park in Germany. More infos on this attraction : http://www.e-coasters.com and http://blog.e-coasters.com.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Heidekreis
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.
Lüneburg Heath
The Lüneburg Heath (German: Lüneburger Heide; also Lunenburg Heath in English) is a large area of heath, geest and woodland in northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. It forms part of the hinterland for the cities of Hamburg, Hanover, and Bremen and is named after the town of Lüneburg. Most of the area is a nature reserve. Northern Low Saxon is still widely spoken in the region.
Heide Park
The Heide Park Resort is a theme park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. With an overall area of over 850,000 m² (210 acres), it is one of the biggest German amusement parks and the biggest in Northern Germany. The theme park is part of the British-based Merlin Entertainments. The current manager of the park is Hannes W. Mairinger.
Colossos (Heide Park)
Colossos is a wooden roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the first wooden roller coaster to use prefabricated track. Colossos is currently the tallest wooden roller coaster in the world. Colossos is very different from a traditional wooden roller coaster because it is prefabricated. Instead of trackers cutting, shaping, and laying down the track by hand, the track is laser cut in a factory, achieving a higher degree of precision than could ever be done by hand.
Scream (Heide Park)
The Gyro-Drop Tower Scream is an amusement ride in the Heide Park, Soltau, Germany. With a height of 103 metres to the pinnacle it is the tallest "gyro drop" free-fall ride in the world. Scream was constructed of the observation tower II of Heide Park, which was built in 1992 and was then called 'Gyrotower'. This modification was accomplished by a company called Intamin between October 2002 and April 2003 at a cost of €7.5 million. The inauguration took place on 24 April 2003.
Wense (Osterheide)
Wense is a village in the Heidmark in Lower Saxony, Germany. In 1935/1936 its inhabitants were 'relocated', because the German armed forces, the Wehrmacht, wanted to establish a vast military training area in the Heidmark, which today is the largest in Europe. Nowadays, Wense is in the unincorporated area of Osterheide.
Lüneburg Heath Nature Park
In the north of the area known as the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany, lies the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park with an area of 1,130 square kilometres . In the centre of the nature park is the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve with an area of 23,440 hectares .
Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve
The Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve is one of the oldest and largest nature reserves in Germany, and the oldest and largest in Lower Saxony. It was first established on 29 December 1921 when an area of four square miles was declared a nature park by the Prussian Government.
Pietzmoor
The Pietzmoor (literally "Pietz Bog") is named after the little village of Pietz, and is the largest contiguous area of bog on the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. The bog lies southeast of the town of Schneverdingen and is bordered to the south by the village of Heber. The Pietzmoor has an average peat depth of 4 m, its maximum thickness is 7.5 m. The bog is the source of the rivers Böhme and Veerse.
Großes Moor (near Becklingen)
The Großes Moor near Becklingen (German: Großes Moor bei Becklingen) is a nature reserve in Germany with an area of 850 hectares, of which 666 hectares lie in Celle district and 184 hectares in Soltau-Fallingbostel district. Since 16 December 1985 the area has been protected under conservation law. An area of 776.6 hectares is designated as a special area of conservation (FFH-Gebiet).
Dat ole Huus
Dat ole Huus Heath Museum is a local history museum in Wilsede in the German state of Lower Saxony. It was founded in 1907 which makes it one of the oldest open air museums in Germany. The name is Low German for "That ol' house".
Snow Dome, Bispingen
The Snow Dome is an indoor ski slope at Bispingen in the German state of Lower Saxony. It was opened on 21 October 2006. The piste has a length of about 300 m, height about 78 m, and a width of up to 100 m . On the snow area of about 23,000 m, in addition to the downhill piste is a Funpark, a toboggan run and a beginner's slope. The incline varies between 20% at the top and 9% at the bottom.
Bonstorf Barrows
The Bonstorf Barrows (German: Grabhügelfeld von Bonstorf) are the remains of a much larger barrow cemetery on the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany dating to the late neolithic or early bronze age. They are located east of the village of Bonstorf, part of the municipality of Hermannsburg in the Lower Saxon district of Celle. The site comprises six, closely packed burial mounds or barrows.
Soltau Toy Museum
The Soltau Toy Museum, formerly the North German Toy Museum in Soltau originated from a private collection. It was founded in 1984 by Hannelore Ernst. The museum is located in a listed building which consists of a shop and house in the centre of Soltau. Exhibits from four centuries recall something of the history of toys and culture.
Panzerlehrbrigade 9
The Panzerlehrbrigade 9 is a formation of about 5,000 men strong within the German Armed Forces or Bundeswehr, which is subordinated to the 1st Armoured Division in Hanover. The bulk of the brigade is stationed in Munster. Two battalions are based in Neustadt am Rübenberge.
Wietze (Örtze)
The Wietze is a river, 29 kilometres long, in the South Lüneburg Heath, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The river rises east of the Soltau suburb of Moide and flows from there in a southerly direction to Wietzendorf. Here it is joined by the only tributary of any size, the Aue. The Aue has two source streams: the Hötzinger Aue, which rises north of Stübeckshorn, 98 m above sea level and the Alvernsche Aue, that has its source northwest of Alvern, 86 m above sea level.
Dorfmark
The village of Dorfmark is part of the borough of Bad Fallingbostel in Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Dorfmark has 3,469 inhabitants, over 22% of the borough's population, and an area of 15.48 square kilometres, some 24% of the total area in the borough. The River Böhme flows through Dorfmark and discharges into the Aller between Hodenhagen and Rethem.
Wiedingen
Wiedingen is a village in the borough of Soltau in the district of Soltau-Fallingbostel in the German state of Lower Saxony. The village has 142 inhabitants . The hamlets of Ellingen and Wieheholz belong to the municipality of Wiedingen.
Brock (Soltau)
Brock is a village in the borough of Soltau in the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. The village has 158 inhabitants . The hamlets of Bassel, Hebenbrock, Penzhorn and Imbrock are part of the parish. Brock lies on the Lüneburg Heath south of Soltau on the river Böhme. The B 3 federal road and the A 7 motorway run through the parish of Brock. The motorway junction of Soltau-Süd also lies within the parish. The council chair is Wulf Heinrich Lühr.
Deimern
Deimern is a village in the borough of Soltau in the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. The village has a population of 198 . The hamlets of Timmerloh, Harmelingen and Grasengrund belong to the parish of Deimern. Deimern lies on the Lüneburg Heath northeast of Soltau. The district roads K 2 and K 3 cross near Deimern. The parish chairman is Bodo Lühr (as at 2008). The Ehbläcksmoor nature reserve is located in the parish.
Dittmern
Dittmern is a village in the borough of Soltau in the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. The village has 783 inhabitants . The hamlets of Friedrichseck, Hambostel, Grüne Aue, Heidenhof and Höpenhof belong to the parish of Dittmern. The Low Saxon name for Dittmern is Dibbern. Dittmern lies on the Lüneburg Heath northeast of Soltau on the Große Aue river. The district roads K 2 and K 9 and the A 7 motorway run through the parish.
Battle of Soltau
The Battle of Soltau (German: Schlacht bei Soltau) took place on 28 June 1519 and was the military climax of the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud which lasted from 1519–1523. Some sources describe it as "the last knights' battle" (Die letzte Ritterschlacht). It is also often described as the "last medieval feud". The feud had all the hallmarks of a typical dispute between noble families of that time.
Wietzer Berg
The Wietzer Berg is a low hill, 102 metres above sea level, on the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle. It lies about 2 kilometres west-southwest of the tourist village of Müden (Örtze) and is a popular destination in the generally flat landscape of the Südheide Nature Park. On its summit in an area of heathland is the Lönsstein monument, which commemorates the heath poet, Hermann Löns.
Krake
Krake is a steel dive roller coaster at Heide Park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It was manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on April 16, 2011.
Reinsehlen Camp
Reinsehlen Camp is a largely treeless area of around 100 hectares (250 acres) close to the village of Reinsehlen near the town of Schneverdingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is known for its calcareous grassland and most of the area is now a nature reserve. In the past, the area served as a military airfield, a Displaced Persons camp and a military training area.