Tostedt

Tostedt is a municipality inside the district Harburg in Lower Saxony and the administrative headquarters of the integrated municipality Tostedt. Tostedt changed into first referred to in documents in 1105. Since 1625, the jurisdiction has been confirmed in Tostedt. Even these days, Tostedt is the seat of a district court with overarching responsibility of the industrial sign in for the complete vicinity of the Elbe Weser triangle. In the old Posthalterei on the sand wherein the horses of the stagecoaches have been changed within the residence of the own family Huth should have resided Napoleon.

Since about 800 AD, the primary church in Tostedt, one of the oldest wooden churches in northern Germany, becomes placed at the website online of state of the art parish corridor. The contemporary Johanneskirche in Tostedt was constructed within the years 1878 to 1880 after a design of the Hanoverian architect Conrad Wilhelm hare. It is a 5 nave constructing within the Gothic Revival fashion. From their predecessors, the font of bells bronze from 1423, the winged altar of 1480 and the Renaissance pulpit of 1608 have been taken. The organ of Philipp Furtwangler and the altar of Theodor Massler date from the year of the church.