Langenhagen

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Template:Infobox German location Langenhagen ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Eastphalian: Langenhogen) is a town in the Hanover district of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany.

OverviewEdit

Langenhagen is a small town of about fifty thousand people in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is about 72 square kilometers and gets an average of 660 mm of rainfall a year. Located about 5.3 miles from Hanover (8.6km) and 154 miles or 248km from the capital of Germany, Berlin. With its 18 hotels, and a number of restaurants and attractions, this town is considered beautiful and a great place to visit by those who go.

HistoryEdit

From 1866 to 1868, Robert Koch worked in Langenhagen.

On 18 June 1972, Red Army Faction terrorist Ulrike Meinhof was arrested in Langenhagen.

On 17 August 1982, the world's first mass production of compact discs began in Langenhagen.

The Langenhagen standard (Template:Langx), declared 1990 and sponsored by Brenneke is an industry standard for the minimal precision of shotguns and combination guns fit for hunting with shotgun slugs.<ref>Brenneke-munition.de Template:Webarchive Template:In lang</ref>

SubdivisionsEdit

Langenhagen consists of Langenhagen proper (including the Old Town, Brink, Langenforth and Wiesenau), Engelbostel (including Kananohe), Godshorn, Kaltenweide (including Altenhorst, Hainhaus, Maspe, Siedlung Twenge, Twenge and Kiebitzkrug), Krähenwinkel, and Schulenburg.

EconomyEdit

TUIfly is headquartered at Hanover Airport.<ref>"About TUIfly." TUIfly. Retrieved on 12 May 2009.</ref><ref>"Contact." TUIfly. Retrieved on 12 May 2009.</ref> Before TUIfly appeared, Hapag-Lloyd Flug (a.k.a. Hapagfly) was headquartered in Langenhagen.<ref>"Facts and Figures." Hapagfly. 1 June 2005. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.</ref>

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Hermes, Europe built a new hub in Hanover in 2011, costing around 35 EUR million and 150 new full-time jobs.
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PoliticsEdit

Template:Update section In 2001 the town council was elected for five years. The Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats won the election (both parties send 19 councilors to the council). The two "small" parties FDP (Free Democratic Party) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Greens) received two seats each. Dr. Susanne Schott-Lemmer (CDU) is the mayor of Langenhagen. She won against the candidate of the Social Democrats with more than 60 percent.

On 10 September 2006 the town council was elected for five years. The Social Democrats won the election (send 19 councilors to the council). The FDP (Free Democratic Party) got two seats and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Greens) received four seats each. The Christian Democrats lost with only 16 seats. Dr. Susanne Schott-Lemmer (CDU) was not elected and is the loser of the elections. Additionally, around 2014 the mayor Langenhagen was Friedhelm Fischer from the Social Democrats with more than 52 percent. The current mayor is Mirko Heuer, elected after winning the election against Fischer with a collective 58.8 percent.