Kranenburg
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municipality in Landkreis Stade, Germany
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- District
- Stade
- Municipal assoc
- Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
- Mayor
- Horst Wartner
- Total
- 14.18 km (5.47 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 3 m (9.8 ft)
- Density
- 52.4/km (136/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 04140
- Vehicle registration
- STD
- Website
- www.samtgemeinde-oldendorf.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Kranenburg
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Oldendorf-Himmelpforten
- Population
- 789
- Area
- 14.18
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.kranenburg-oste.de
- Image
- Kirche Kranenburg.jpg
- Dialing code
- 04140
- Licence plate code
- STD
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- postal code
- 21726
- Commons category
- Kranenburg (Oste)
- different from
- Kranenburg
- native label
- Kranenburg
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kranenburg ( German pronunciation: [ˈkʁaːnənbʊʁk]) is a municipality in the district Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany, lying on the river Oste. It consists of the villages Kranenburg and Brobergen and is part of the Samtgemeinde Oldendorf-Himmelpforten. It has a population of 772 as at December 31, 2003, of which 546 in Kranenburg and 226 in Brobergen.
Both villages lie on the right side of the Oste river, but part of the municipality lies on the left side, called "Hollander Höfe", which was the old ancestral seat of the gentry family "von Brobergen". There is a ferry in Brobergen crossing the Oste, connecting the "Hollander Höfe" with the village of Brobergen. It is a station of the "Deutsche Fährstraße".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kranenburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.