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 .
6-627: 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
12-692: The Ämter in Schleswig-Holstein , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , and Brandenburg , and the Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate . A Samtgemeinde is a government body composed of a collective association of gemeinden ( municipalities ), the lowest level of official territorial division in Germany. Samtgemeinden were introduced in Lower Saxony on 4 March 1955 upon the adoption of
18-563: The noun Gemeinde (municipality). Samtgemeinde can be translated into English as "joint municipal association" or "collective municipal association" but one-to-one translation is hardly possible. The term Sammtgemeinden (at that time written with double m) was originally used for low-level administrative units in Prussia during a short-lived reform that saw the reorganization of parishes between 1850 and 1853. Samtgemeinden have three organs: The Samtgemeinde committee consists of
24-692: The Lower Saxony Municipal Code ( Niedersächsische Gemeindeordnung ), which was based on British administrative structures at the time. According to §71 paragraph 1 Lower Saxony law on local government, a Samtgemeinde should have at least 7,000 inhabitants. Approximately 80% of the municipalities in Lower Saxony have united to Samtgemeinden . The Samtgemeinde executes many local government administrative duties for its member municipalities, including land use planning , wastewater disposal, social security , organisation of cemeteries and fire stations , sponsorship of elementary schools ,
30-529: The construction of local connecting roads, equipment and entertainment of libraries , sports sites and other public utilities . Samtgemeinden can take over other tasks of the member municipalities, for instance, tourism . The term Samtgemeinde (plural: Samtgemeinden ) is a neologism consisting of the German adjectives gesamt (whole, entire, all, complete, total, aggregate, collective, overall, general, joint, united) or zusammen (together, jointly) and
36-604: The run-up to the G20 summit in 2017, left-wing extremists set a fire in the town. Bad Bevensen is twinned with: This Uelzen (district) location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Samtgemeinde A Samtgemeinde ( German pronunciation: ['zamtgəmaɪndə] ; plural: Samtgemeinden ) is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony , Germany . Samtgemeinden are local government associations of municipalities , equivalent to
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