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The Lüneburg Heath lies between the rivers Elbe to the north, the Drawehn to the east, the Aller to the south and southwest, the middle course of the Wümme to the west and the Harburg Hills ( Harburger Bergen ) to the northwest.
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Lüneburg and Heath
In 1939, a pilot plant for tabun production was set up at Munster-Lager, on Lüneburg Heath near the German Army proving grounds at Raubkammer.
He was captured by the British in April 1945 on Lüneburg Heath and was a prisoner of war until August.
The Lüneburg Heath
In the south of the district part of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ) is found.
The district is characterised by the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ) in the south and the riverside woodlands along the Elbe.
To the south of the town stretches the 7, 400 km² Lüneburg Heath which emerged as a result of widespread tree-felling, forest fires and grazing.
The district includes the western half of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ).
The district comprises the eastern part of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ).
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The district is located in the southernmost parts of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ).
Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle ( Schloss Celle ) built in the renaissance and baroque style and a picturesque old town centre ( the Altstadt ) with over 400 timber-framed houses, making Celle one of the most remarkable members of the German Timber-Frame Road.
The district is located at the border of Saxony-Anhalt and extends from the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath ( Lüneburger Heide ) in the north to the suburbs of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg in the south.
There were concrete plans for the national parks of the Lüneburg Heath, Bavarian-Bohemian Forest, High Tauern, Höllengebirge, Neusiedler See and Kurische Nehrung.
In the west the Drawehn hill range and the Drömling depression separate it from the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony ; the Altmark also borders the Wendland region in the north and the Magdeburg Börde in the south.
A typical view of the Lüneburg Heath near Schneverdingen.
The Lüneburg Heath (; also Lunenburg Heath in English ) is a large area of heath, geest and woodland in northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.
The Lüneburg Heath has extensive areas of heathland, typical of those that covered most of the North German countryside until about 1800, but which have almost completely disappeared in other areas.
The Lüneburg Heath is therefore a historic cultural landscape.
Due to its unique landscape, the Lüneburg Heath is a popular tourist destination in North Germany.
Map of the Lüneburg Heath natural region
The Lüneburg Heath
Common Juniper ( Juniperus communis ) on the Lüneburg Heath
Heath ( habitat ) | Sandy heathland on the Lüneburg Heath
Lüneburg and lies
Lüneburg lies on the river Ilmenau, about from its confluence with the Elbe.
The old town ( Altstadt ) of Lüneburg lies above a salt dome which is the town's original source of prosperity.
The Lüneburg Heath lies in a temperate maritime climatic region moderated by the Atlantic, with mild winters, cool summers and precipation all-year round.
The largest bog on the Lüneburg Heath is the Pietzmoor, which lies east of Schneverdingen.
* The East Hanoverian Railways ( Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen or OHE ) maintains a railway network, the greater part of which lies in the Lüneburg Heath ( only for freight and museum services and sometimes the Heath Express ( Heide-Express ).
Soltau lies centrally between Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover in the Lüneburg Heath on the river Böhme.
Uelzen lies on the edge of the Lüneburg Heath.
Bad Fallingbostel lies on the Böhme river in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath between Soltau and Walsrode in the Heidmark.
Bomlitz lies on the Lüneburg Heath in a heavily wooded area.
The municipality lies in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park.
Whilst the so-called Elbe Heights ( Elbhöhen, also Klötzie ), at the southeastern foot of which Hitzacker lies, belong to the natural region of the Lüneburg Heath ( c. f.
Lüneburg and between
* 1586 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an ' evangelical ' league of defence, called the ' Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae ', against the Catholic League.
* July 17 – A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between ' some evangelical Princes and Electors ' and representatives of the King of Navarre, the King of Denmark and the Queen of England.
With 71, 000 inhabitants it is, next to Lüneburg, the largest Lower Saxon town between Hanover and Hamburg.
Over a long period of time the region of the Lüneburg Heath alternated between periods when the heathlands spread and dominated the scene and times when it was largely covered with forest and only small areas of heath existed.
Lüneburg was one of the four Regierungsbezirke of Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the north of the federal state between the three cities Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover.
" at the Timeloberg on Lüneburg Heath ; an area between the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen.
In 1569, Lüneburg was divided between Henry III ( line of Dannenberg ) and William VI ( line of Lüneburg ), the sons of Ernest the Confessor, Bernard's great-great-grandson.
After some dispute, his territories were divided in 1635 between the Dannenberg and Celle branches of the Lüneburg line.
It was located at the crossing of two then important merchant routes: The salt street ( German: Salzstraße ) being a main trading route for salt between Lüneburg and Brunswick, and the grain street ( German: Kornstraße ) transporting grain between Celle and Magdeburg.
The campaign started with the landings in Normandy and ended on 4 May 1945 with Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in Holland, north west Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath, ( situated between the cities of Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen ).
Munster is situated in the central Lüneburg Heath region along the river Örtze between the towns of Soltau and Uelzen.
This heightened tensions between the royal court and the Saxons ; Magnus ' subsequent release in exchange for seventy Swabians captured in Lüneburg did little to encourage a thaw in relations.
After the last count of Hoya died without sons in 1582, the territory was divided between the Lüneburg line of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Calenberg line of the same duchy, and the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ).
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