Fallingbostel

Fallingbostel lies on the Böhme in the southern Lüneburg Heath. Recorded in 993 as Vastulingeburstalle, it was a farming settlement in the old Saxon district of Loingau. Around 1300 it became the seat of a bailiwick responsible for the surrounding countryside. The local church formed another centre of community life; in 1543 Martin Ondermarck carried out the first general visitation of the bailiwick during the consolidation of the Reformation. Farming remained the basis of life in the heathland villages around Fallingbostel.