Bad Bevensen

Bad Bevensen
Bad Bevensen
Town
	Market Square with the Church of the Three Kings
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bad Bevensen within Uelzen district
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	Coordinates: 53°04′45″N 10°35′00″E / 53.07917°N 10.58333°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Uelzen
Municipal assoc.	Bevensen-Ebstorf
Government
• Mayor	Gabriele Meyer (Greens)
Area
• Total	48.01 km2 (18.54 sq mi)
Elevation	36 m (118 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	9,943
• Density	210/km2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	29549
Dialling codes	05821
Vehicle registration	UE
Website	www.bad-bevensen.de

Bad Bevensen (West Low German: Bemsen) is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated to the east of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). The Ilmenau river, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Bad Bevensen. Bad Bevensen is a well-known spa town.

Bad Bevensen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bevensen-Ebstorf.

Incorporated into the municipality are the villages of Gollern, Groß Hesebeck, Jastorf, Klein Bünstorf, Klein Hesebeck, Medingen, Röbbel, Sasendorf and Seedorf. Jastorf is situated some 3 kilometres (2 miles) south of the town center. It is the site of an Iron Age cemetery which gave the name of the Jastorf culture.

In the run-up to the G20 summit in 2017, left-wing extremists set a fire in the town.^[2]