unique landscape, Lüneburg Heath is a popular tourist destination in North Germany. From a geographical point of view, Lüneburg Heath is a specific natural...
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Hliuni; Polabian: Glain), officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg (German: Hansestadt Lüneburg) and also known in English as Lunenburg (/ˈljuːnənbɜːrɡ/...
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Neuenkirchen is a municipality in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. "Verzeichnis der direkt gewählten Bürgermeister/-innen und Landräte/Landrätinnen"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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the Native, by Thomas Hardy Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton Lüneburg Heath, an anthropogenic heath in Lower Saxony, northern Germany Fynbos heathland, South...
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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...
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Heidekreis (section Lüneburg Regional Association)
western half of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). Since this landscape is so characteristic for the district, it calls itself "the Heath District". The...
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northeast, the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide), is the largest heathland area of Germany. In the Middle Ages, the town of Lüneburg was wealthy due...
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Luneberg (redirect from Lüneburg (disambiguation))
District of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany Lüneburg (district), in Lower Saxony, Germany Principality of Lüneburg, 1269-1705 Lüneburg Heath, a large area...
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Old Salt Route (section Lüneburg Heath)
in full bloom. German Salt Museum Lüneburg Saltworks Sülze Saltworks Sell, Nora. "Die Alte Salzstraße – von Lüneburg nach Lübeck" (in German). Archived...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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German Tank Museum (category Lüneburg Heath)
The German Tank Museum (German: Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster (DPM)) is an armoured fighting vehicle museum in Munster, Germany, the location of the Munster...
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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...
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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...
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Ratzeputz (category Lüneburg Heath)
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...
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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...
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Ahlden House (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...
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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...
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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...
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neighbouring countries are led by Europarc. The oldest nature park is Lüneburg Heath Nature Park, whose core area was established in 1921 as a nature reserve;...
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Heide Park (category Lüneburg Heath)
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...
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (category Lüneburg Heath)
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...
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residences of the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg. This quadrangular building is the largest castle in the southern Lüneburg Heath region. Celle Castle is based...
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The Principality of Lüneburg (later also referred to as Celle) was a territorial division of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg within the Holy Roman Empire...
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directly on their shoulders. All three were shot by firing squad at Lüneburg Heath on 30 November 1945. Lenz, due to his protests and his written confession...
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