Wittingen is a town in the district of Gifhorn

Gifhorn (district)

-Geography:The district is located at the border of Saxony-Anhalt and extends from the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the north to the suburbs of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg in the south. The Aller River enters the district in the southeast, runs through the town of Gifhorn, is joined by...

, 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. 30 km northeast of Gifhorn

Gifhorn

Gifhorn is a town and capital of the district Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the industrial and commercially important cities nearby, Brunswick and Wolfsburg...

, and 30 km southeast 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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Division of the town

Wittingen consists of 27 districts:

Boitzenhagen Darrigsdorf Erpensen Eutzen Gannerwinkel Glüsingen Hagen Kakerbeck Knesebeck Knesebeck Knesebeck is a lively village in Gifhorn . It is home to important industries in the region and offers at the same time good opportunities to recreate and socialize. Knesebeck actively cultivates its traditions such as its music, ecclesiastic life and cultural events...

Küstorf Lüben Mahnburg Ohrdorf Ohrdorf The village of Ohrdorf lies in the north German state of Lower Saxony in the district of Gifhorn and belongs to the borough of Wittingen.The village takes its name from the river Ohre, which rises near the village and empties into the Elbe north of Magdeburg. In East German times the state border... Plastau Rade Radenbeck Radenbeck (Wittingen) Radenbeck is a village in the borough of Wittingen in the district of Gifhorn in the north German state of Lower Saxony.- Location :Radenbeck lies 13 kilometres southeast of the town of Wittingen and, like it, on the B 244 federal road.... Schneflingen Stöcken

Suderwittingen Teschendorf Vorhop Transvaal Wittingen Wollerstorf Wunderbüttel Zasenbeck Rumsdorf

Demographic data

According to the Lower Saxony State Department for Statistics 12,291 people lived in the town of Wittingen in 2005 in 3,745 buildings with a total of 5,399 homes at an average floor space of 49.9 sq meters per person. Since the formation of the borough, the population grew steadily, both by natural population increase as well as immigration. 21.3% of the population in 2005 were under 18 years old, 7.1% from 18 to 25, 27.0% from 25 to 45, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% were 65 years old or older. The unemployment rate stood at an average of 11.3% (men: 9.4%, women: 14.0%). 2,247 people commute regularly out of the town and 1745 into it daily.

Health and medicine

Wittingen has one hospital (Städtisches Krankenhaus), 4 pharmacies and 6 dentists.

External links

• www.wittingen.de
• H. BUTTING GmbH & Co. KG