Suderburg is a municipality in the district of Uelzen

Uelzen (district)

Uelzen is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Gifhorn, Celle, Heidekreis, Lüneburg and Lüchow-Dannenberg, and by the state of Saxony-Anhalt...

, 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

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is situated approx. 11 km southwest of Uelzen

Uelzen

Uelzen is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality....

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Suderburg is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Suderburg

Suderburg (Samtgemeinde)

Suderburg is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the village Suderburg.- Samtgemeinde divisions :...

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Municipal divisions

The parish of Suderburg consists of Suderburg itself and the following villages that had been independent until the municipal reform in 1972: Bahnsen, Böddenstedt, Hamerstorf, Hösseringen

Hösseringen

Hösseringen is a village in the collective municipality of Suderburg and lies southwest of Uelzen in the German state of Lower Saxony.- Geography :Hösseringen lies between Hamburg and Hanover in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath...

, Holxen and Räber.

History

The first known written instance of the name was as Sutherburg in 1004.

In 1847, the railway line Celle - Uelzen - Lüneburg - Harburg - Wilhelmsburg

Wilhelmsburg station

Wilhelmsburg station is a station on the Harburg S-Bahn line and is served by the rapid transit trains of the Hamburg S-Bahn. The railway station is located in the quarter Wilhelmsburg in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the city of Hamburg, Germany....

 was opened, and Suderburg railway station was opened in 1850 and extended in 1859.

In 1957, the villages Graulingen, Oldendorf I and Suderburg were merged into Suderburg.

Sources

The text includes a translation of part of the German Wikipedia article.