Soltau

Soltau is a mid-sized town within the Luneburg Heath within the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has round 22,000 inhabitants. The area of the Luneburg Heath had already been settled by using the begin of the New Stone Age approximately 4,000 years in the past. The Soltau vicinity become to begin with occupied through some character farms. The parish of Soltau becomes possibly founded around 830 and the first wood church St. John the Baptist turned into constructed. The first written record of Soltau became within the year 936 as Curtis Salta farm on the Salt River.

King Otto the Great granted the estate to Quedlinburg Abbey. Within a span of almost six hundred years the village of Soltouwe emerged from Curtis Salta. It changed into placed in the vicinity between St. John's Church and the Waldmuhle mill. In 1304 the Vogtei of Soltau was sold to the cathedral chapter of Verden. Between 1383 and 1388 the village became hooked up by way of order of the duke as safety against robber barons on the confluence of the rivers Bohme and Soltau close to Hagen and Burg, which these days is inside the city centre.