Lüneburg Facts for Kids

Lüneburg is a city in Lower Saxony in north Germany. It is about 50km southeast of Hamburg. It is the capital of the District of Lüneburg. About 102,660 people live there.

The Ilmenau River, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Lüneburg.

In medieval times the town was very rich due to the salt trade. Salt used to be transported along the Old Salt Route to the Baltic Sea from where it was sent by ship to other countries. There were salt mines near the town for a thousand years. Salt mining stopped in 1980. The salt mining caused a lot of deforestation. The countryside changed into heathland which is called the Lüneburger Heide (Lüneburg Heath).

Lüneburg is twinned with Scunthorpe, England.

Am Sande
Old crane and old store at the medieval Lüneburg harbour
Town hall
Old harbour

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View from the Kalkberg towards the east, with all three main churches
Miniature of Lüneburg in the Sächsische Weltchronik, 13th century
Hans Bornemann's The punishment of Aegeas (~1450). In the background a view of Lüneburg with St. Nicholas' Church
The slightly leaning spire of the church of St. John
Aerial photograph of the south of the town centre
Manhole cover displaying the symbol for the motto "Mons, Pons, Fons"
Lüneburg street map around 1910
A cul-de-sac in Lüneburg's Altstadt
St. Nicolai in the Waterside Quarter
Stadtschloss am Markt: in front the Luna Fountain
Interior of St. Nicolai
Stint Market in Lüneburg Harbour
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1748
Heinrich Heine, 1837
Am Sande
The nearby Lüneburg Heath is an anthropogenic heath

Lüneburg facts for kids

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