Bommelsen

The village sprawls for about 1.5 km mainly along the right bank of the middle reaches of the Bomlitz valley.

The neighbouring communities are – clockwise from the north – Woltem, Riepe, Kroge, Benefeld, Jarlingen and Ottingen.

Bommelsen was first mentioned in the records in 835 as Bamlinestade (which roughly means: bank of the Little Böhme) as belonging to the estates of Corvey Abbey.

Several farmsteads and hamlets along the River Bomlitz have been preserved as typical groups of buildings, some including historic Treppenspeicher storage barns.

The B 440 federal road from Dorfmark via Visselhövede to Rotenburg (Wümme) grazes its southern boundary.