Neustadt am Rübenberge

Neustadt am Rübenberge is a town in the district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At 357 km², it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabitants live there. It is in a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest.MayorSince 2004 Uwe Sternbeck is the mayor. He was reelected in 2011.Sons and daughters of the town Friedrich Dedekind (c. 1525-1598), humanist, theologian and writer Euricius Dedekind (1554-1619), composer Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748-1776), poet in the Göttinger Hainbund Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755-1813), Prussian General and army reformer Georg Grabenhorst (1899-1997), writer Deniz Aycicek (born 1990), footballer Sebastian Ernst (footballer) (born 1995), football playerHistory Eilvese transmitter (demolished in 1931) Robert Enke (d 2009)