Kirchlinteln is a municipality in the district of Verden

Verden (district)

Verden is a Kreis in the centre of Lower Saxony, Germany. Adjoining it are the districts of Osterholz, Rotenburg, Heidekreis, Nienburg and Diepholz, as well as the city of Bremen.-Geography:...

, in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

, Germany

Germany

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. Its central village is situated approximately 6 km east of Verden

Verden, Germany

Verden an der Aller, also called Verden or simply Verden , is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the river Aller. It is the administrative centre of the district of Verden...

, and 40 km southeast of Bremen

Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...

. It is surrounded by the Linteln Geest

Linteln Geest

The Linteln Geest , shown on some maps as the Verden Heath, is a geest region in the north German state of Lower Saxony and belongs administratively to the borough of Kirchlinteln.- Geography :The Linteln Geest covers the historic Duchy of Verden which nowadays comprises the fringes of the Lüneburg...

(also called the Verden Heath) which is dominated by woods, hills, heath and small villages. Within the last decades many people decided to build their homes in Kirchlinteln or to buy old cottages in this region because of its picturesque landscape and its location close to the cities of Bremen and Hanover.

Kirchlinteln belonged to the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, established in 1180. In 1648 the Prince-Bishopric was transformed into the Principality of Verden, which was first ruled in personal union

Personal union

A personal union is the combination by which two or more different states have the same monarch while their boundaries, their laws and their interests remain distinct. It should not be confused with a federation which is internationally considered a single state...

 by the Swedish Crown - interrupted by a Danish occupation (1712–1715) - and from 1715 on by the Hanoverian

House of Hanover

The House of Hanover is a deposed German royal dynasty which has ruled the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg , the Kingdom of Hanover, the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Kingdom of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...

 Crown. The Kingdom of Hanover

Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , and joined with 38 other sovereign states in the German...

 incorporated the Principality in a real union

Real union

Real union is a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions as in contrast to personal unions; however they are not as unified as states in a political union...

 and the Princely territory, including Kirchlinteln, became part of the new Stade Region

Stade (region)

The Stade Region emerged in 1823 by an administrative reorganisation of the dominions of the Kingdom of Hanover, a sovereign state, whose then territory is almost completely part of today's German federal state of Lower Saxony...

, established in 1823.

Structure of municipal subdivisions

Armsen Bendingbostel Brunsbrock Heins, subdivisions: Groß Heins Klein Heins Hohenaverbergen Holtum (Geest), subdivisions: Heidkrug Wedehof Steinberg Kirchlinteln (central village) Kreepen Kreepen Kreepen is a small village of about 150 inhabitants in the municipality of Kirchlinteln which belongs to the district of Verden in the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany.... and Brammer Kükenmoor Luttum Neddenaverbergen, subdivision: Lehringen

Otersen, subdivisions: Otersen im Sande Ludwigslust Schafwinkel, subdivisions: Sankt Pauli Odeweg Sehlingen, subdivisions: Groß Sehlingen Klein Sehlingen Stemmen Weitzmühlen Wittlohe

These villages each have a town provost.