Sandkamp

As a ....kamp village, Sandkamp belongs to the villages of the later Rode period and was therefore established as a round village between the 8th and 12th centuries.

The first documentary mention of the village dates back to 1489 and can be found in the treasury register of the Gifhorn bailiwick. According to this, Sandkamp had 13 farms at the time, which were managed by "landlord" farmers. The landlords, i.e. the owners of the agricultural land, were the owners of Wolfsburg and thus the von Bartensleben family until 1742 and then, by inheritance, the von der Schulenburg family.

With the separation of 1839, the manorial rights were removed and the Sandkämper farmers became the free owners of the land they farmed.
There is documentary evidence that between 1839 and the 1960s, 16 farmsteads were given up and changed hands within Sandkamp. Reasons for the sale of the farmsteads may have been age, loss of a successor in the First or Second World War or succession.

The construction of the Berlin-Hanover railroad line (completed in 1871) can be seen as the point in time for the transition from a purely farming village to a village with a service industry. As a result, craftsmen, merchants and railroad employees settled in Sandkamp. The subsequent construction of the Mittelland Canal (1934-1938) and the construction of the Volkswagen factory (from 1938) ultimately led to agriculture becoming less and less important and the development of new building areas led to the emergence of a professionally diverse society in Sandkamp.

After the complete sale of the agricultural land to Volkswagen AG (from the 1960s) and the increasing industrial use of the land, agriculture finally came to a standstill.

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