Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Amt Neuhaus is a municipality in the District of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Amt means \"municipal office\" in German. The original \"municipal office of Neuhaus\" existed since at least the 17th century up until 1885, consecutively as part of Saxe-Lauenburg (which ceased to exist in 1689), Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1689-1810), Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866), and the Prussian Province of Hanover (1866-1885).In 1885, Prussia dissolved the municipality of Neuhaus, while the area remained part of the Province of Hanover. However, in 1945 the area of the former municipality was annexed to Mecklenburg and thus became a part of the Soviet Occupation Zone due to lying on the right sight of the Elbe River, and thus along with the former County of Blankenburg and the municipality of Calvörde became one of a few small areas of the Province of Hanover (since 1946 Lower Saxony) that were part of East Germany from 1949 up until 1990.After German reunification in 1990, the municipalities that had once made up Neuhaus until 1885 quickly held a referendum to secede from Mecklenburg and return to Lower Saxony as a joined municipality in 1992, which out of reasons of tradition took up the old name of Amt Neuhaus, or \"municipal office of Neuhaus\". It is thus the only part of former East Germany that is today part of a Land that during the Cold War belonged to West Germany."@en }
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- Amt_Neuhaus abstract "Amt Neuhaus is a municipality in the District of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Amt means \"municipal office\" in German. The original \"municipal office of Neuhaus\" existed since at least the 17th century up until 1885, consecutively as part of Saxe-Lauenburg (which ceased to exist in 1689), Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1689-1810), Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866), and the Prussian Province of Hanover (1866-1885).In 1885, Prussia dissolved the municipality of Neuhaus, while the area remained part of the Province of Hanover. However, in 1945 the area of the former municipality was annexed to Mecklenburg and thus became a part of the Soviet Occupation Zone due to lying on the right sight of the Elbe River, and thus along with the former County of Blankenburg and the municipality of Calvörde became one of a few small areas of the Province of Hanover (since 1946 Lower Saxony) that were part of East Germany from 1949 up until 1990.After German reunification in 1990, the municipalities that had once made up Neuhaus until 1885 quickly held a referendum to secede from Mecklenburg and return to Lower Saxony as a joined municipality in 1992, which out of reasons of tradition took up the old name of Amt Neuhaus, or \"municipal office of Neuhaus\". It is thus the only part of former East Germany that is today part of a Land that during the Cold War belonged to West Germany.".