Fallingbostel

Bad Fallingbostel is the district town of the Heidekreis area in the German territory of Lower Saxony. Since 1976 the town has had a state-perceived Kneipp spa and has held the title of Bad since 2002. It has close connections to Walsrode, a couple of miles toward the west. Until 2015, there was a British Army base in Bad Fallingbostel. The town has around 11,000 occupants. Bad Fallingbostel lies on the Bohme waterway in the southern piece of the Luneburg Heath among Soltau and Walsrode in the Heidmark.

Bad Fallingbostel was first referenced as "Vastulingeburstalle" in 993 and has accordingly a written history of more than 1,000 years. Initially it was an absolutely horticultural settlement, because of farming being the reason for life of the occupants of the old-Saxon Loingau. The name "Vastulingeburstalle" signifies either "Place of the Vastulo" or "Place of the Vastulingians". Otto III drew the fringes between the wards Hildesheim and Minden amid that time. Amid World War II Fallingbostel was the site of two POW wartime captive camps, Stalag XI-B and Stalag XI-D/357.