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Welcome! 180px 180px    A warm welcome to the Lüneburg Heath Portal, the home of Wikipedia information on the Lüneburg Heath, an important natural landscape and tourist destination in North Germany. The portal gives a brief overview of the region as well as acting as a road map for many of the articles about the Lüneburg Heath in English Wikipedia.

The Lüneburg Heath is a large area of heathland, geest and forest in the north German state of Lower Saxony within a triangle formed by the cities of Hanover, Bremen and Hamburg. Much of it coincides with the historical Principality of Lüneburg. Today, most of the area is now protected by nature parks and nature reserves, the biggest being the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park, the Nordheide and Südheide. Northern Low Saxon is still widely spoken. The region's extensive areas of heathland are typical of those that covered most of the North German countryside until about 1800, but which have almost completely disappeared elsewhere. The heaths were formed after the New Stone Age by the overgrazing of forests on the poor sandy soils known as geest. The Lüneburg Heath is therefore a historic cultural landscape. The heath is kept clear mainly through grazing a North German breed of moorland sheep called the Heidschnucke. Its unique landscape makes the Lüneburg Heath a popular tourist destination. More... Geography and Nature 80px Terrain type: Geest landscape Rivers: Aller, Aue, Böhme, Elbe, Fulde, Gerdau, Grindau, Ilmenau, Luhe, Lutter, Meiße, Örtze, Seeve, Vissel, Weesener Bach, Wietze (Aller), Wietze (Örtze), Wümme Nature parks: Lüneburg Heath, Harburg Hills, Südheide, Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature reserves: Central Lüß Plateau Heaths, Hüttensee, Lüneburg Heath, Meißendorf Lakes and Bannetze Moor Hills: Brunsberg, Falkenberg, Haußelberg, Hoher Mechtin, Wilseder Berg Moors: Bornrieth Moor, Bullenkuhle, Großes Moor (near Becklingen), Großes Moor (near Gifhorn), Grundloses Moor, Kiehnmoor, Maujahn Moor, Ostenholz Moor, Pietzmoor, Tiste Bauernmoor Forests : Drawehn, Göhrde Regions: Aller-Leine Valley, Heidmark, Linteln Geest, Nordheide, Osterheide Culture Gifhorn Cultural monuments: Bonstorf Barrows, Dohnsen-Siddernhausen Dolmen, Oldendorfer Totenstatt, Sieben Steinhäuser Castles: Ahlden, Blankenburg, Bunkenburg, Celle, Gifhorn, Hodenhagen, Uhlenburg Museums: Dat ole Huus, German Oil Museum, German Salt Museum, German Tank Museum, Hösseringen Museum Village, Wind- and Watermill Museum, North German Toy Museum, Rischmannshof Heath Museum, Wilsede Heath Museum, Winsen Museum Farm Customs: Maibaum, Mattenherrn Schützenfest Events: Hurricane Festival Architecture: Brick Gothic, Fachhallenhaus, Fachwerkhaus, Low German farmhouse, Ständerhaus, Treppenspeicher, Weser Renaissance Language: Plattdeutsch, Lower Saxon, Northern Low Saxon Music: Auf der Lüneburger Heide Cuisine: Lower Saxon cuisine, Bregenwurst, Buckwheat gateau, Bilberries, Heidschnucke joints, Grünkohl, Heather honey, Heidegeist, Hochzeitssuppe, Potato produce, Ratzeputz, Smelt, Spargel, Venison specialities, Welf pudding Education: Lüneburg University Media: Cellesche Zeitung, Celler Scene Other attractions: Burgsittensen Moor Railway, Hankensbüttel Otter Centre, Heide Park, Schlosstheater Celle, Serengeti Park, SnowDome Bispingen, Walsrode Bird Park Special articles: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Celle Hole, Celle State Stud, Eschede train disaster, Fire on the Lüneburg Heath, Hanoverian horse, Heath beekeeping, House of Welf, Lower Saxon Mill Road, Plaggen Towns and Villages Important Towns and Villages: Adendorf, Amelinghausen, Bad Bevensen, Bad Bodenteich, Bad Fallingbostel, Bergen, Bienenbüttel, Bispingen, Bleckede, Bomlitz, Buchholz in der Nordheide, Celle, Eschede, 15px Eversen, Faßberg, Gifhorn, Hambühren, Hermannsburg, Lüneburg, Neu Wulmstorf, Müden, Munster, Neuenkirchen, Ramelsloh, Sassenburg, Schneverdingen, Soltau, Uelzen, Unterlüß, Walsrode, Wietze, Wietzendorf, Winsen (Aller), Wittingen Abandoned Villages: Böstlingen, Hof Deil, Fahrenholz, Pröbsten, Wense

Featured article: The German Tank Museum (German: Deutsches Panzermuseum) is an armoured fighting vehicle museum in Munster, Germany, the location of the Munster Training Area camp. Its main aim is the documentation of the history of German armoured troops since 1917. It started in 1983 from the instructional collection at the Panzertruppenschule, the Bundeswehr ("German Army") school for training officers and NCO's of German armoured units. It is now a museum open to the public, jointly run by the town of Munster and the Panzertruppenschule. The site covers 9,000 m² including 7,500 m² of exhibition halls. In 2003 a new building was opened for various special displays, a museum shop and a cafeteria. More... Articles to be added Easter Fire (Germany), Fallingbostel Station, Harvest festival (Germany), Hohe Heide, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, Pfingstbaumpflanzen, Plaggendüngung, Wacholderschnaps, Landscape of the former Principality of Lüneburg, Museum of the Principality of Lüneburg, Heathland farming Did you know, that...? Celle Castle (German: Schloss Celle) (pictured) in the town of Celle in Lower Saxony is the largest castle in the southern Lüneburg Heath region? In 1945 on the Timeloberg near Lüneburg the surrender terms were signed to end the Second World War in Europe? the International Wind- and Watermill Museum at Gifhorn currently has 16 mills from 12 different countries? People 80px Artists: Ernie Reinhardt, Ernst Schulze, Klaus Lage, Friedrich Kuhlau, Jörg Immendorff Politicians: Hermann Ehlers, Monika Griefahn, Rebecca Harms, Kirsten Lühmann, Dirk-Ulrich Mende, Manfred Ostermann, Henning Otte, Peter Struck, Walter Wallmann, Angelika Volquartz Scientists: Albrecht Daniel Thaer, Karl Goedeke, Ernst Emil Herzfeld, Friedemann Schulz von Thun Other sons and daughters of the region: Roland Freisler Regional surnames: Oelfke Rulers of the Principality of Lüneburg: Bernard I, Bernard II, Christian, Christian Louis, Ernest I, Ernest II, George William, Henry the Middle, John I, John Frederick, Otto II, Otto III, Wenceslas I, William the Younger, William II Other princes from the Lüneburg Heath Lothar III (also) Lothar von Süpplingenburg Prominent people who worked in the Lüneburg Heath: Urbanus Rhegius, Hermann Löns, Arno Schmidt Politics and History History: Battle of Soltau, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hildesheim Diocesan Feud, Kingdom of Hanover, Principality of Lüneburg, Rulers of Lüneburg, Rulers of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Consorts of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Lüneburg Prelates' War, Lüneburger Sate, Lüneburg War of Succession Military: Becklingen War Cemetery, Bergen-Hohne Training Area, Celle Air Base, Hohne Station, Munster Training Area, RAF Celle, German surrender on Lüneburg Heath, Reinsehlen Camp Politics and Administration: Lüneburg province, Lüneburg Regional Association, Harburg district, Lüneburg district, Soltau-Fallingbostel district, Uelzen district, Celle district, Gifhorn district, Lüchow-Dannenberg district, Rotenburg district, Verden district, Harburg district Transport 70px Rail: Aller Valley Railway, 15px Göhrde station, Bomlitz–Walsrode railway, Bremervörde-Walsrode railway, Brunswick–Uelzen railway, East Hanoverian Railways, Hanover–Hamburg railway, Heath Express, Heath Railway, Uelzen–Langwedel railway, Verden-Walsrode railway, Visselhövede station, Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway Road: A 7, A 27, A 250, B 3, B 4, B 71, B 191, B 209, B 214, B 244, B 248, B 440 Religion 80px Churches: Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover, Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim, St. Lambert's Church, Bergen, St Ludwig's Church, Celle Missions: Evangelical-Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony The Lüne Abbeys: Ebstorf, Isenhagen, Lüne, Medingen, Walsrode, Wienhausen

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