Neustadt am Rübenberge (Low German: Niestadt) is a town in the district of Hannover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. At 357 km (138 sq mi), it is the 9th largest settlement in Germany by area (following Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne), though only about 45,000 inhabitants live there. It is in a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest.

Boroughs

Mayor

Dominic Herbst (Alliance 90/The Greens) has served as mayor since 2019. He succeeded Uwe Sternbeck (Alliance 90/The Greens), who had been the mayor from 2004.

Twin towns – sister cities

Neustadt am Rübenberge is twinned with:

• La Ferté-Macé, France (1980)

Notable people

• Friedrich Dedekind (c. 1524–1598), humanist, theologian and writer
• Euricius Dedekind (1554–1619), composer
• Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672–1751), composer, singer
• Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748–1776), poet of ballads.
• Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), Prussian General and army reformer.
• Georg Grabenhorst (1899–1997), author of Zero Hour
• Melanie Brinkmann (born 1974), virologist, worked on the Cytomegalovirus.
• Sami Haddadin (born 1980), electrical engineer, computer scientist and university professor re. robotics and artificial intelligence

Sport

• Robert Enke (1977–2009), football goalkeeper, died here; played 287 games and 8 for Germany
• Deniz Aycicek (born 1990), footballer, played over 200 games
• Sebastian Ernst (born 1995), footballer, played over 250 games

See also

• Eilvese transmitter (demolished in 1931)