Joint municipality Flotwedel: Location and region

You find a primary school in every municipality of Flotwedel. In addition a secondary and secondary modern school in Eicklingen. Grammar schools are at a distance of 5 – 10 km. Five kindergartens, two libraries and numerous offers of the adult education centre round off the "diversity of education" in Flotwedel.

Many sports facilities which have been considerably extended in the past years are an invitation to recuperate and do some sports.
Modern sports grounds, an outdoor beach pool, indoor tennis courts, outdoor tennis courts, gymnasiums, badminton courts, indoor riding arena, airport for gliders, shooting stands, boathouses and bowling and skittle alleys. Cyclers and hikers find new and ideal cycling and hiking paths. In one of the oldest semi-detached houses of the Lüneburger Heide the club Vorwerk Gut Oppershausen organises concerts, reading sessions and film evenings.

In the theatre of a somewhat other genre, the Kaleidoskop in Bockelskamp, cabaret, pantomime, comedy and theatre at a nose's length is shown in a former cowshed. High-ranking concerts of the cultural circle Wienhausen are performed in the heated summer refectory of the Cistercien convent in Wienhausen founded by Agnes von Landsberg in 1230.