Bad Bevensen

Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Bad Bevensen within Uelzen district

53°04′45″N 10°35′00″E / 53.07917°N 10.58333°E / 53.07917; 10.58333CountryGermanyStateLower SaxonyDistrictUelzen Municipal assoc.Bevensen-Ebstorf Government

• MayorGabriele Meyer (Greens)Area

• Total48.01 km² (18.54 sq mi)Elevation

36 m (118 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[1]

• Total9,943 • Density210/km² (540/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

29549

Dialling codes05821Vehicle registrationUEWebsitewww.bad-bevensen.de

Bad Bevensen (West Low German: Bemsen) is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated to the east of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). The Ilmenau river, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Bad Bevensen. Bad Bevensen is a well-known spa town.

Bad Bevensen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bevensen-Ebstorf.

Incorporated into the municipality are the villages of Gollern, Groß Hesebeck, Jastorf, Klein Bünstorf, Klein Hesebeck, Medingen, Röbbel, Sasendorf and Seedorf. Jastorf is situated some 3 kilometres (2 miles) south of the town center. It is the site of an Iron Age cemetery which gave the name of the Jastorf culture.

In the run-up to the G20 summit in 2017, left-wing extremists set a fire in the town.^[2]

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Bad Bevensen is twinned with:

Chojnice Poland

Notable people

Ilse Falk (born 1943), politician and Member of Parliament (CDU)
Ulrich Sinn (born 1945), Professor of Classical Archaeology
Joachim Eigenherr (born 1947), athlete
Volker Bescht (born 1951), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
Heinrich Lange (born 1955), Vice Admiral of the German navy

References

^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
^ Brandanschläge auf Bahn in Bad Bevensen und Bremen Die Welt, 19.06.2017