Nenndorf (Samtgemeinde)

Nenndorf is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the town Bad Nenndorf.

The Samtgemeinde Nenndorf consists of the following municipalities:

1. Bad Nenndorf
2. Haste
3. Hohnhorst
4. Suthfeld

History

In 1604 witch hunts were carried out in Nenndorf: Two women were caught up in witch trials, one was probably burned. From the district of Horsten, Anneke Stemmermann was probably burned in a witch trial in the same year, and from the district of Riepen, two women.

On the initiative of Landgrave Wilhelm IX of Hesse-Kassel, the "Nendorff Estate" with the bathing facilities and the spa park was established in 1787. This laid the foundation for the current importance of the bath as the center of the joint municipality.

The geographical location had a very favorable effect on the development of the joint municipality. On the northern edge of the German low Mittelgebirge, Bad Nenndorf lies on a Rhine-Elbe connection, the Hellweg, which has been used for centuries, and thus the joint municipality gains access to the railroad network (in Haste in 1847 and in Nenndorf in 1872), the Mittelland Canal (in Haste in 1916) and the highway (1939).

In 1929, the municipality of Bad Nenndorf was created by merging the villages of Groß Nenndorf, Klein Nenndorf and the Bad Nenndorf estate district.

Until the territorial reform in 1974, the municipality of Hohnhorst consisted of the villages of Hohnhorst, Rehren and Ohndorf. The villages of Horsten, Riepen and Waltringhausen were incorporated into the municipality of Bad Nenndorf in 1974. The former communities of Helsinghausen, Kreuzriehe and Riehe merged to form the community of Suthfeld.

On March 1, 1974, the communities of Bad Nenndorf, Haste, Hohnhorst and Suthfeld merged to form the joint municipality of Nenndorf. Bad Nenndorf was granted town privileges in January 2000.