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Lüneburg, [a] officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg [b] and also known in English as Lunenburg, [c] is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 50 km (31 mi) southeast of another Hanseatic city, Hamburg , and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region .
Lüneburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Lüchow-Dannenberg , Uelzen , Heidekreis and Harburg , and the states of Schleswig-Holstein (district of Lauenburg ) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (district of Ludwigslust-Parchim ).
Lüneburg is a city in the District of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany. The historical English spelling was Lunenburg. Since the Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg became King of Great Britain in 1707, many places in former British colonies also carry this name.
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.. The region was created under royal Hanoverian rule in 1823 as Landdrostei Lüneburg (roughly: High Bailiwick of Lüneburg), renamed Regierungsbezirk (roughly: governorate) in 1885, when it was a subdivision of the Prussian ...
The first Hanoverian King of Great Britain, George I of Great Britain, was the reigning Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and was finally made an official and recognized prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire in 1708. His possessions were enlarged in 1706 when the hereditary lands of the Calenberg branch of the Dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg merged ...
Map of Lüneburg Heath Lüneburg Heath Common juniper (Juniperus communis) on Lüneburg Heath Sandy heathland on Lüneburg Heath. From a geographical point of view, Lüneburg Heath is a specific natural region, that is an area distinguished by a specific combination of abiotic factors (climate, relief, water resources, soil, geology) and biotic factors (flora and fauna).
Lüneburg Kalkberg from the south. The Lüneburg Kalkberg (not to be confused with the Segeberger Kalkberg) is the cap rock of a salt dome in the western part of the German town of Lüneburg. The Kalkberg was a gypsum mine during the Middle Ages, but is today a Naturschutzgebiet (nature reserve) and a common meeting place for city residents.
It existed from 1269 until 1705 and its territory lay within the modern-day state of Lower Saxony in Germany. The principality was named after its first capital, Lüneburg (also called Lunenburg in English), which was ruled jointly by all Brunswick-Lüneburg lines until 1637. [1] From 1378, the seat of the principality was in Celle. [2]