Kroge is a village in the parish of Bomlitz

Bomlitz

Bomlitz is a municipality in the Heidekreis district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.- Location :Bomlitz lies on the Lüneburg Heath in a heavily wooded area...

 in North Germany. It lies in the Lower Saxony district of Soltau-Fallingbostel. The village has 290 inhabitants and an area of 7 square kilometres (2.7 sq mi).

Location

Kroge lies in the northeastern part of the parish of Bomlitz, 3 km northeast of Bomlitz itself.

Neighbouring villages

Its neighbouring villages are - clockwise from the north - Bommelsen

Bommelsen

Bommelsen is a village in the parish of Bomlitz in North Germany. It lies in the Lower Saxon Heidekreis district. The parish has about 286 inhabitants and an area of 10 km². - Location :...

, Riepe

Bad Fallingbostel

Bad Fallingbostel is the district town of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Since 1976 the town has had a state-recognised Kneipp spa and has held the title of Bad since 5 August 2002. It has close ties to Walsrode, a few miles to the west...

, Bomlitz, Benefeld

Benefeld

Benefeld is part of the municipality of Bomlitz in the Lower Saxon Heidekreis district in north Germany. Benefeld has a population of 2,232, although its parish covers just 2 km² .- Location :...

, Jarlingen and Ahrsen.

Rivers

The Bomlitz

Bomlitz (river)

The Bomlitz is a right-bank tributary of the River Böhme in North Germany. It is just under long and runs through the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony.- Name :...

 flows through Kroge and discharges further south into the Böhme.

History

Since the land reform of 1974 the formerly independent parish of Kroge has become one of the eight villages in Bomlitz parish.

Road

Kroge lies right on the B 440 federal highway

Bundesstraße 440

The B 440 is a German federal road in Lower Saxony. It runs from the district town of Rotenburg an der Wümme to Bad Fallingbostel. It was based on an old Army road built by Napoléon Bonaparte.- Course :...

 that runs from Dorfmark

Dorfmark

The village of Dorfmark is part of the borough of Bad Fallingbostel in the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony.Dorfmark has 3,469 inhabitants, over 22% of the borough's population, and an area of , some 24% of the total area in the borough.The River Böhme flows through Dorfmark...

 via Visselhövede

Visselhövede

Visselhövede is a town in the district of Rotenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. Nearby towns include the district capital Rotenburg, Walsrode and Verden. Larger cities within a 100 km radius are Bremen, Hanover and Hamburg....

 to Rotenburg (Wümme). The A 27 motorway

Bundesautobahn 27

branches off the A 7 at Autobahndreieck Walsrode to the northwest, crossing A 1 at the Bremer Kreuz and continuing eastwards of Bremen, toward Cuxhaven....

 passes 12 km away to the southwest, and the A 7 4 km to the southeast.

External links

• The parish of Bomlitz (including an overview of its villages)