unique landscape, Lüneburg Heath is a popular tourist destination in North Germany. From a geographical point of view, Lüneburg Heath is a specific natural...

Polabian: Glain), officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg (‹See Tfd›German: Hansestadt Lüneburg) and also known in English as Lunenburg (/ˈljuːnənbɜːrɡ/...

Neuenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. "Verzeichnis der direkt gewählten Bürgermeister/-innen und Landräte/Landrätinnen"...

Soltau (German pronunciation: [ˈzɔltaʊ]) is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has around...

Ludwigslust-Parchim). The Amt of Lüneburg appeared in 1862. At that time the Amt of Lüne moved its seat from Lüne Abbey into the Lüneburg Riding Academy and its...

the Native, by Thomas Hardy Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton Lüneburg Heath, an anthropogenic heath in Lower Saxony, northern Germany Fynbos heathland, South...

On 4 May 1945, at 18:30 British Double Summer Time, at Lüneburg Heath, south of Hamburg, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional...

western half of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). Since this landscape is so characteristic for the district, it calls itself "the Heath District". The...

The Battle of Lüneburg Heath (also called the Battle of Ebstorf) was a conflict between the army of King Louis the Younger and the Norse Great Heathen...

The fire on the Lüneburg Heath was a major forest fire in 1975 on the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany, with various points of origin...

northeast, the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide), is the largest heathland area of Germany. In the Middle Ages, the town of Lüneburg was wealthy due...

in full bloom. German Salt Museum Lüneburg Saltworks Sülze Saltworks Sell, Nora. "Die Alte Salzstraße – von Lüneburg nach Lübeck" (in German). Archived...

of Celle in northern Germany. It is one of the highest points on the Lüneburg Heath. In good weather Hanover is visible from its summit. It is on the terrain...

District of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany Lüneburg (district), in Lower Saxony, Germany Principality of Lüneburg, 1269-1705 Lüneburg Heath, a large area...

The German Tank Museum (‹See Tfd›German: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster (DPM)) is an armoured fighting vehicle museum in Munster, Germany, the location...

northern slopes of the Haußelberg hill, on Lüneburg Heath in North Germany. The extraction site on Lüneburg Heath was 1863–1994 Neuohe, while the storage...

be present at the signing of the German instruments of surrender in Luneburg Heath on 4 May 1945, in Reims on 7 May and in Berlin on 8 May 1945. Von Friedeburg...

length is 131.2 km (81.5 mi). The river's source is on the Wulfsberg in Lüneburg Heath. West of Rotenburg, it takes up the rivers Rodau and Wiedau. The Wümme...

(‹See Tfd›German: Schloss Ahlden) is a stately home at Ahlden on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was built in 1549, originally as a water...

created in 1877 by Peter Weidmann, a distiller in Celle. In the town, the Lüneburg Heath region and its surrounding area, Ratzeputz is a well-known, high-alcohol...

accepted the surrender of the German forces in north-western Europe at Lüneburg Heath, south of Hamburg, after the surrender of Berlin to the USSR on 2 May...

to November 17, 1945, 45 of those were tried by a military tribunal in Lüneburg. They included former commandant Josef Kramer, 16 other SS male members...

vegetation. Human intervention caused the emergence of open heath such as the Lüneburg Heath, and measures such as deforestation and the so-called Plaggenhieb...

protests). Heide-Park The Heide-Dorf (Heath Village), a richly detailed replica of typical buildings from the Lüneburg Heath, was inaugurated in the 1988 season...

Prussian government. The boundaries of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve are identical with those of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park. It lies in the northern...

Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony...

a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle (Schloss Celle) built in the Renaissance and Baroque styles...

inheritance of the Duchy of Lüneburg. He initially approached his younger brother Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, to arrange a marriage between...

cemetery located in the state of Lower Saxony in north Germany on the Lüneburg Heath. It was built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission who continue...

from 1963 to 1994. It was governed by the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement (‹See Tfd›German: Soltau-Lüneburg-Abkommen, SLA) between the Federal Republic of Germany...