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{{Infobox German location
| type               = Gemeinde
| image_flag         = Flagge Neu Wulmstorf.svg
| image_coa          = DEU Neu Wulmstorf COA.svg
| coordinates        = {{coord|53|27|46|N|9|47|44|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| image_plan         = Neu Wulmstorf in WL.svg
| plantext           = 
| state              = Niedersachsen
| region             = 
| district           = Harburg
| image_photo = Neu Wulmstorf Rathaus.jpg
| imagesize = 
| image_caption = City hall Neu Wulmstorf
| elevation          = 7
| area               = 56.16
| postal_code        = 21629
| area_code          = 040 and 04168
| licence            = WL
| Gemeindeschlüssel  = 03353026
| divisions          = 
| website            = {{URL|https://www.neu-wulmstorf.de/}}
| mayor              = Tobias Handtke<ref name=mayor>{{cite web|url=https://wahlen.statistik.niedersachsen.de/KW2021/reports/DW/20210912_DW_Uebersicht.pdf|title=Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021|date=13 October 2021|publisher=[[Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen]]}}</ref>
| leader_term        = 2021&ndash;26
| party              = SPD
}}

{{Audio|De-Neu Wulmstorf.ogg|'''Neu Wulmstorf'''}} ({{langx|nds|Vosshusen}}) is a municipality ('Einheitsgemeinde') in the district of [[Harburg (district)|Harburg]], in [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]]. It changed its name on December 11, 1964 from ″'''Wulmstorf'''″ to ″Neu Wulmstorf″. It is part of the [[Hamburg Metropolitan Region]].
{{Imagemap Neu Wulmstorf|Neu Wulmstorf in Neu Wulmstorf.svg}}

The municipality of Neu Wulmstorf consists of:
* New Wulmstorf, consisting of
** New Wulmstorf
** [[Wulmstorf, Neu Wulmstorf|Wulmstorf]]
** [[Daerstorf]]
* [[Elstorf]], consisting of
** Elstorf
** [[Ardestorf]]
** [[Bachheide|Elstorf-Bachheide]]
* [[Rade, Neu Wulmstorf|Rade]] consisting of
** Rade
** [[Mienenbüttel]]
** [[Ohlenbüttel]]
* [[Rübke]]
* [[Schwiederstorf]].

==Geography==
Neu Wulmstorf is situated between [[Hamburg]] in the east, the [[marsh]] of the [[Altes Land]] in the north, the forest of the [[Harburg Hills]] (''Harburger Berge'') in the south east, [[Buchholz in der Nordheide]] and the [[geest]] to the south, and [[Buxtehude]] to the west. The municipality incorporates eleven villages and most of the area marks the north north west outskirts of the larger [[Natural regions of Germany|natural region]] of the [[Lüneburg Heath]] in [[North Germany]].

[[File:Altes Land Apfelernte02.jpg|thumb|275px|Harvesting of apples in Rübke]] The landscape is dominated by the transition from the marsh in the north to the geest in south east. On the marsh side lies the village of [[Rübke]] in the [[Elbe Marshes#Lower Saxon Elbe marshes|Lower Saxon Elbe marshes]] at sea level and the [[nature reserve]] ([[Naturschutzgebiet]]) ''Moore bei Buxtehude'' ([[mire]]), which is home to the [[corn crake]].

The village of Neu Wulmstorf sits right on the transitions from the mire up to the geest.

Further up, the villages [[Wulmstorf, Neu Wulmstorf|Wulmstorf]], [[Daerstorf]], [[Schwiederstorf]], [[Rade, Neu Wulmstorf|Rade]] are marking the highest elevations of Neu Wulmstorf on the western outskirts of the Harburg Hills.

The villages of [[Ardestorf]], [[Elstorf]], [[Bachheide]], Rade, [[Mienenbüttel]] and [[Ohlenbüttel]] lie on a stretch reaching from the north east to the south end of the municipality.

==Population==
On December 31, 2013 there were 20,384 registered people living in Neu Wulmstorf. The population roughly doubled during the past 42 years.<ref name=Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982>{{citation|editor-surname1=Statistisches Bundesamt|title=Historisches Gemeindeverzeichnis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Namens-, Grenz- und Schlüsselnummernänderungen bei Gemeinden, Kreisen und Regierungsbezirken vom 27. Mai 1970 bis 31. Dezember 1982 |publisher=[[W. Kohlhammer]]|publication-place=Stuttgart und Mainz|pages=229|isbn=3-17-003263-1|date=  1983|language=German}}
6.754 Einwohner am 6. Juni 1961 und 10.011 Einwohner am 27. Mai 1970, jeweils mit den später eingemeindeten Orten.
</ref> See below for the development of the population (all on December 31):
<ref name=NLSK1000014>[http://www1.nls.niedersachsen.de/statistik/ Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen, 2001–2012, Bevölkerungsfortschreibung, Tabelle K1000014, 353026 Neu Wulmstorf]</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! colspan="2"        | !! 1961 !! 1970     !!    1987   <!-- !!    1988    !!    1989    !!    1990    !!    1991 -->   !!    1992   <!-- !!    1993    !!    1994    !!    1995    !!    1996   --> !!    1997   <!-- !!    1998    !!    1999    !!    2000    !!    2001   --> !!    2002  <!--  !!    2003    !!    2004    !!    2005    !!    2006  -->  !!    2007   <!-- !!    2008    !!    2009    !!    2010    !!    2011   --> !!    2012 !! 2013 !! 2014
|-
| rowspan="2" |    Total ||    Population||  6.754<ref name= Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982 /> || 10.011<ref name= Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982 /> || 14.227  <!--  ||    14.377    ||    14.868    ||    15.466    ||    16.310   --> ||    16.751   <!-- ||    16.889    ||    17.487    ||    17.931    ||    18.393   --> ||    18.841   <!-- ||    19.369    ||    19.648    ||    19.898    ||    20.323   --> ||    20.543   <!-- ||    20.344    ||    20.341    ||    20.413    ||    20.545   --> ||    20.649   <!-- ||    20.557    ||    20.697    ||    20.846    ||    20.862  -->  ||    20.979 || 20.384<ref name=vO2014>vorOrt Magazin, Januar 2014, S.60: „Zum 30. November 2013: 22.034 Einwohner, 21.245 Hauptwohnsitz, 789 Nebenwohnsitz“</ref> || 22.274<ref name=NW20141231>[https://www.neu-wulmstorf.de/portal/meldungen/einwohnerstatistik-2004-2014-913001497-20160.html?rubrik=13000007 Einwohnerstatistik 2004-2014, Gemeinde Neu Wulmstorf, mit Haupt- und Nebenwohnung]</ref>
|-
|    June&nbsp;1987&nbsp;=&nbsp;100 %   || ||  ||    101,5 %   <!-- ||    102,6 %    ||    106,1 %    ||    110,3 %    ||    116,4 %   --> ||    119,5 %   <!-- ||    120,5 %    ||    124,8 %    ||    127,9 %    ||    131,2 %   --> ||    134,4 %   <!-- ||    138,2 %    ||    140,2 %    ||    142,0 %    ||    145,0 %   --> ||    146,6 %   <!-- ||    145,1 %    ||    145,1 %    ||    145,6 %    ||    146,6 %   --> ||    147,3 %   <!-- ||    146,7 %    ||    147,7 %    ||    148,7 %    ||    148,8 %   --> ||    149,7 % || <!-- nicht vergleichbar -->|| <!-- nicht vergleichbar -->
|-
<!-- | rowspan="2" |    Männlich    ||    Anzahl    ||    7.114    ||    7.180    ||    7.431    ||    7.747    ||    8.185    ||    8.388    ||    8.431    ||    8.741    ||    8.962    ||    9.181    ||    9.426    ||    9.685    ||    9.827    ||    9.905    ||    10.082    ||    10.178    ||    10.075    ||    10.077    ||    10.133    ||    10.222    ||    10.280    ||    10.195    ||    10.247    ||    10.300    ||    10.338    ||    10.442
|-
|    %    ||    50,0 %    ||    49,9 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,1 %    ||    50,2 %    ||    50,1 %    ||    49,9 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    49,9 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    49,8 %    ||    49,6 %    ||    49,5 %    ||    49,5 %    ||    49,5 %    ||    49,6 %    ||    49,8 %    ||    49,8 %    ||    49,6 %    ||    49,5 %    ||    49,4 %    ||    49,6 %    ||    49,8 %
|-
| rowspan="2" |    Weiblich    ||    Anzahl    ||    7.113    ||    7.197    ||    7.437    ||    7.719    ||    8.125    ||    8.363    ||    8.458    ||    8.746    ||    8.969    ||    9.212    ||    9.415    ||    9.684    ||    9.821    ||    9.993    ||    10.241    ||    10.365    ||    10.269    ||    10.264    ||    10.280    ||    10.323    ||    10.369    ||    10.362    ||    10.450    ||    10.546    ||    10.524    ||    10.537
|-
||    %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,1 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    49,9 %    ||    49,8 %    ||    49,9 %    ||    50,1 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,1 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,0 %    ||    50,2 %    ||    50,4 %    ||    50,5 %    ||    50,5 %    ||    50,5 %    ||    50,4 %    ||    50,2 %    ||    50,2 %    ||    50,4 %    ||    50,5 %    ||    50,6 %    ||    50,4 %    ||    50,2 %
|-
| colspan="2" |    Fläche in qkm    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,15    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,16    ||    56,17    ||    56,17    ||    56,17    ||    56,17    ||    56,2    ||    56,18    ||    56,18    ||    56,18
|-
| colspan="2" |    Einwohner je qkm    ||    253,4    ||    256||    264,8    ||    275,4    ||    290,5    ||    298,3    ||    300,8    ||    311,4    ||    319,3    ||    327,5    ||    335,5    ||    344,9    ||    349,9    ||    354,3    ||    361,9    ||    365,8    ||    362,3    ||    362,2    ||    363,4    ||    365,8    ||    367,6    ||    366    ||    368,3    ||    371,1    ||    371,3    ||    373,4
-->
|-
|}

==Infrastructure==
The relatively young village of Neu Wulmstorf grew at the intersection of two old trails. The main road connecting Rübke in the marsh with the geest villages of Wulmstorf and Elstorf intersects with the [[Bundesstraße 73]] as the main road connecting Stade and Cuxhaven with Hamburg. It dominates the settlement as it cuts through from east to west. Just before the geest, the [[Lower Elbe Railway]] marked the north border of the Neu Wulmstorf village for many years, with the ''Neu Wulmstorf'' [[Hamburg S-Bahn|S-Bahn]] [[Neu Wulmstorf station|station]]. The station bore the name ''Daerstorf'' before that village including the exclave on which the station was built upon, got incorporated into Neu Wulmstorf.

Another axis is the connection from Buxtehude to Buchholz. The first stretch of the [[Bundesstraße 3]], intersects with the [[Bundesautobahn 1]] at the south tip of the municipality.

===Transportation===
Neu Wulmstorf is serviced by the [[rapid transit]] system of the city train of Hamburg with the station [[Neu Wulmstorf railway station|Neu Wulmstorf]]. Bus service connects Neu Wulmstorf to Hamburg-Neugraben.

===Education===
Neu Wulmstorf has three primary schools. Secondary schools are the Hauptschule Vossbarg, the Realschule Vierkaten and the Gymnasium Neu Wulmstorf.<ref>[http://www.gym-nw.org Gymnasium Neu Wulmstorf]</ref>

===Sports===
Neu Wulmstorf has several sporting areas including a sports centre with swimming hall in the centre of the village.
These clubs provide a rich sports life:
* TVV Neu Wulmstorf
* TSV Elstorf
* BSC Neu Wulmstorf
* Schützenverein Neu Wulmstorf
* DLRG

==Twin town==
* {{Flagicon|HUN}} [[Nyergesújfalu]], [[Hungary]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Commons category}}

{{Villages in Neu Wulmstorf}}
{{Cities and towns in Harburg (district)}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Harburg (district)]]