Hitzacker

Infobox Ort in Deutschland
Art = Stadt
Wappen = Wappen Hitzacker.pnglat_deg = 53 |lat_min = 8
lon_deg = 11 |lon_min = 3
Lageplan =
Bundesland = Niedersachsen
Landkreis = Lüchow-Dannenberg
Samtgemeinde = Elbtalaue
Höhe = 12
Fläche = 58.44
Einwohner = 4956
Stand = 2006-12-31
PLZ = 29456
Vorwahl = 05862, 05858 (OT Pussade), 05861 (OT Kähmen)
Kfz = DAN
Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 3 54 009
Gliederung = 12 Stadtteile
Straße = Am Markt 7
Website = [http://www.hitzacker.de/ www.hitzacker.de]
Bürgermeister = Dr. Karl-Heinz Jastram
Partei = SPD

Hitzacker is a city in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Elbe, approx. 8 km north of Dannenberg, and 45 km east of Lüneburg. The 2002 population of Hitzacker was 5,109, and its postal code is 29456. The mayor is Karl Guhl.

The famous library now in Wolfenbüttel was originally founded here by Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (who died in 1666) and was moved to its present location in 1643.

The Polabian name of Hitzacker is "Ljauci" (spelled "Lgautztgi" in older German reference material).

Hitzacker is part of the "Samtgemeinde" ("collective municipality") Elbtalaue.

References

*Johann Parum Schultze; Reinhold Olesch (Hrsg.): "Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores et Chronica Venedica J. P. Schultzii". (= Slavistische Forschungen; Band 7). Böhlau, Köln und Graz 1967
*Christian Hennig von Jessen: "Vocabularium Venedicum (oder Wendisches Wörter-Buch)" (1705). Nachdruck besorgt von Reinhold Olesch. - Köln [u.a.] : Böhlau 1959 (Gewährsmann des Pastors C. Hennig von Jessen war der polabisch sprechende Bauer Johann Janieschge aus Klennow)

External links

* [http://www.hitzacker.de hitzacker.de (in German)]