What is "hoppenstedt"

Hoppenstedt may refer to the following places in Germany:

• Hoppenstedt (Osterwieck), a village in the municipality of Osterwieck, Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt.
• Hoppenstedt (Lohheide), a former hamlet, that was abandoned when the Bergen-Hohne Training Area was established in the 1930s in Lower Saxony.

The German surname Hoppenstedt is derived from the placename. The name became well known as a result of the Hoppenstedt family that appeared in many sketches by Vicco von Bülow.

People with the surname:

• August Ludwig Hoppenstedt (1763–1830), German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent
• Dietrich H. Hoppenstedt (b 1940), president of the bank association, the Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverband
• Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt (1779–1858), brother of Karl and city manager of Hanover
• Gustav von Hoppenstedt (1847–1918), German general (field artillery)
• Heinrich Hoppenstedt (d 1646), German Lutheran theologian and court chaplain in Celle
• Hendrik Hoppenstedt (b 1972), German politician (CDU)
• Karl Hoppenstedt (1834–1910), the first president of the Lübeck state court
• Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt (1769–1826), brother of Georg and general secretary in the cabinet ministry of the Kingdom of Hanover
• Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt (b 1937), CDU/EVP MP in the European Parliament
• Werner Hoppenstedt (1883–1971), director of the cultural scientific institute of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft
• Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt (1726–1788), Lutheran theologian and priest
• Hoppenstedt Firmengruppe, three economic information companies with their head office in Darmstadt

See also:

• Hoppenstätt

Hoppenstedt is a village in the municipality of Osterwieck in the northern Harz Foreland, Germany. The town Osterwieck lies about 4.5 kilometres to the southeast and the Lower Saxon state border is about 3 kilometres away.