Bad Bevensen



Bad Bevensen (West Low German: Bemsen) is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated to the east of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). The Ilmenau river, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Bad Bevensen. Bad Bevensen is a well-known spa town.

Bad Bevensen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bevensen-Ebstorf.

Incorporated into the municipality are the villages of Gollern, Groß Hesebeck, Jastorf, Klein Bünstorf, Klein Hesebeck, Medingen, Röbbel, Sasendorf and Seedorf. Jastorf is situated some 3 km south of the town center. It is the site of an Iron Age cemetery which gave the name of the Jastorf culture.

In the run-up to the G20 summit in 2017, left-wing extremists set a fire in the town.

Twin towns – Sister cities
Bad Bevensen is twinned with:
 * 🇵🇱 Chojnice Poland

Notable people

 * Ilse Falk (born 1943), politician and Member of Parliament (CDU)
 * Ulrich Sinn (born 1945), Professor of Classical Archaeology
 * Joachim Eigenherr (born 1947), athlete
 * Volker Bescht (born 1951), Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
 * Heinrich Lange (born 1955), Vice Admiral of the German navy