Klein Meckelsen: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

There is a wildlife park in the area surrounding Klein Meckelsen. A wildlife park is suitable for a stay if such a place is of personal interest when travelling. You can rent a holiday apartment in Klein Meckelsen. Bocksberg, Mühlberg and Tadelberg are also located in the vicinity of Klein Meckelsen.

Culture and History

The wider regional surroundings of Klein Meckelsen include Alte Burg, the De Theeshof local history museum, Düvelsberg and St. Nicodemus Church. Alte Burg is suitable for a stay if a castle is of personal interest when travelling.

Klein Meckelsen won the national title in the “Our Village Should Become More Beautiful” competition in 1971 and again in 2001.

Klein Meckelsen is a municipality in the Sittensen collective municipality in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony.

Klein Meckelsen was first documented in 1388 under the name “Lütken Meckelstede”. Around 1500, the settlement had 14 houses and approximately 70 inhabitants.

Getting There

The former Kuhmühlen railway station is located about one kilometre south of the centre of Klein Meckelsen and is no longer served by passenger trains. The nearest passenger railway stations are in Tostedt, Lauenbrück and Scheeßel, each about 20 kilometres away.

Nature and Trails

The region around Klein Meckelsen is described as a landscape of gentle hills, meadows and fields, as well as the Wümme and Oste waterways. Cycling and hiking trails are described in connection with the wider Wümme and Oste landscape.

The wider area around Klein Meckelsen offers cycling and hiking trails along the Wümme and Oste waterways.

Further History

The local area contains five large burial mound cemeteries associated with successive settlement periods from prehistory through the Early Middle Ages.

Archaeological evidence of human settlement in Klein Meckelsen dates back to the end of the Stone Age and includes numerous excavated artefacts.

Further town pages: Bothel, Scheeßel, Vorwerk, Hellwege, Kirchtimke, Stemmen, Gnarrenburg, Oerel

To the higher-level travel overview: Rotenburg.