Sandbostel
Sign in to saveSandbostel is a municipality in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in northwestern Germany, 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west of Hamburg. It is part of the Samtgemeinde Selsingen. In 2024, it had 799 inhabitants. The Oste flows through the municipality.
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Sandbostel COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Sandbostel in ROW.svg
- German location.state
- Niedersachsen
- German location.district
- Rotenburg (Wümme)
- German location.Samtgemeinde
- Selsingen
- German location.elevation
- 8
- German location.area
- 31.54
- German location.postal_code
- 27446
- German location.area_code
- 04284, 04764
- German location.licence
- ROW, BRV
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 03 3 57 040
- German location.divisions
- 4
- German location.website
- www.selsingen.de
- German location.mayor
- Michael Behnken
- German location.party
- independent
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Sandbostel
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Rotenburg (Wümme) district
- Population
- 799
- Area
- 31.58
- Elevation
- 9
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Oste
- Official website
- www.selsingen.de
- Image
- Sandbostel Stalag X B - Barakken.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04764
- Licence plate code
- ROW
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- Sandbostel
- Commons category
- Sandbostel
- postal code
- 27446
- native label
- Sandbostel
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Sandbostel is a municipality in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) in northwestern Germany, 43 km north-east of Bremen, 60 km west of Hamburg. It is part of the Samtgemeinde Selsingen. In 2024, it had 799 inhabitants. The Oste flows through the municipality.
==History== Sandbostel belonged to the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180. In 1648, the Prince-Archbishopric was transformed into the Duchy of Bremen, which was first ruled in personal union by the Swedish Crown - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712–1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian Crown. In 1807, the ephemeric Kingdom of Westphalia annexed the Duchy, before France annexed it in 1810. In 1813, the Duchy was restored to the Electorate of Hanover, which - after its upgrade to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1814 - incorporated the Duchy in a real union and the Ducal territory, including Sandbostel, became part of the new Stade Region, established in 1823.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandbostel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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