title: Adenbüttel
text: # Adenbüttel
  
  Adenbüttel is a municipality in the Gifhorn district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a member municipality of the Samtgemeinde Papenteich. The Municipality Adenbüttel includes the villages of Adenbüttel and Rolfsbüttel
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Neighbourhood
  
  * distance from downtown
  
  | | City of Gifhorn (16 km) | |
  | - | - | - |
  | Municipality Didderse (3 km) | | Municipality Rötgesbüttel (8 km) |
  | | | Municipality Meine (4 km) | City of Wolfsburg (24 km) |
  | Municipality Schwülper (3 km) | | Rethen (2 km) |
  | | City of Braunschweig (16 km) | |
  
  ### Geographical position
  
  Adenbüttel is situated north of Braunschweig, between the Harz and the Lüneburg Heath. However, administrative it belongs to the district of Gifhorn. Adenbüttel is around 4 km to the west to the German highway 4 (near Meine) and around 7 km to the north of the interchange Brunswick North (A2 /A391). Other bigger towns nearby are: Wolfsburg, Salzgitter, Wolfenbüttel, Gifhorn, Peine and Celle.
  
  ## History
  
  The first documentary mentioning of Adenbüttel was in the year 1226. In 1619 a church was erected, whose baseplate can yet be seen nowadays. In the first half of 20th century a potash mine existed near the village.
  
  ## Politics
  
  The last election for the community government took place on the 10 September 2006 with an election turnout of 73.39%. Since that day the district council consists as follows:
  
  * CDU 5 Seats
  * SPD 4 Seats
  * Independent Party 2 Seats
  