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Lüneburg officially the Hanseatic City of LüneburgGerman: Hansestadt Lüneburgpronounced [ˈhanzəʃtat ˈlyːnəbʊɐ̯k]Low German LümborgLatin Luneburgum or LunaburgumOld High German LuneburcOld Saxon HliuniPolabian Glainalso called Lunenburg in English, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about 50 km 31 mi southeast of another Hanseatic city, Hamburgand belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region.
The capital of the district which bears its name, it is home to roughly 77, people, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. Lüneburg has been allowed to use the title " Hansestadt " Hanseatic Town in its name sincein recognition of its membership in the former Hanseatic League. Lüneburg is also home to Leuphana University. The first signs of human presence in the area of Lüneburg date back to the time of Neanderthal Man : 56 axes, estimated atyears old, were uncovered during the construction in the s of the autobahn between Ochtmissen and Bardowick.
The area was almost certainly not continuously inhabited at that time, however, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, due to the various glaciations that lasted for millennia. The first indication of a permanent, settled farming culture in the area was found not far from the site of the Neanderthal discovery in the river Ilmenau between Lüne and Bardowick. This was an axe that is described as a Schuhleistenkeil or " shoe last wedge" due to its shape. It dates to the 6th century BC and is now in the collection of the Lüneburg Museum.
Since the Bronze Agethe Lüneburg hill known as the Zeltberg has concealed a whole range of prehistoric and early historic graves, which were laid out by people living in the area of the present-day town of Lüneburg.
One of the oldest finds from this site is a so-called Unetice flanged axe Aunjetitzer Randleistenbeil which dates to BC. The land within the town itself has also yielded a number of ice age urns that were already being reported in the 18th century. These discoveries are, however, like those from the Lüneburger Kalkberg — they went into the private collections of several 18th century scholars and, with a few exceptions, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, were lost when the scholars died, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975.
Also worth mentioning in this regard are the Lombard Urnfield graves on the Lüneburg Zeltberg and Oedeme from the first few centuries AD, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. In the Middle Agesthere several discoveries were made on the site of the town, for example on the site of the old village of Modestorpe not far from St. John's Church Johanniskircheat the Lambertiplatz near the saltworks and in the old Waterside Quarter. The ancient town may be that identified as Online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 or Leuphana Greek : Λευφάναa town listed in Ptolemy 2.
Lüneburg was first mentioned in medieval records in a deed signed on 13 August, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, AD, in which Otto I, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, Holy Roman Emperor granted "the tax from Lüneburg to the monastery built there in honour of Saint Michael" German: den Zoll zu Lüneburg an das zu Ehren des heiligen Michaels errichtete KlosterLatin: teloneum ad Luniburc ad monasterium sancti Michahelis sub honore constructum.
ad fluvium Albim pervenit ad locum, qui dicitur Hliuni i. on the river Elbe, at the location, which online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 called "Hliuni" and refers to one of the three core settlements of Lüneburg; probably the castle on the Kalkberg which was the seat of the Billunger nobles from The Elbe-Germanic name Hliuni corresponds online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 the Lombard word for "refuge site".
From archaeological finds, it is clear that the area around Lüneburg had already been settled in the museum of the Principality of Lüneburg, for example, there is a whole range of artefacts online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 were found here and the saltworks had already started production. According to tradition, the salt was first discovered by a hunter who observed a wild boar bathing in a pool of water, shot and killed it, and hung the coat up to dry.
When it was dry, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, he discovered white crystals in the bristles — salt. Later he returned to the site of the kill and located the salt pool, the first production of salt on the site took place. In the town hall is a bone preserved in a glass case; legend has it that this is the preserved leg-bone of the boar.
It was here that the Lüneburg Saltworks was subsequently established for many centuries. In spite of its lucrative saltworks, Lüneburg was originally subordinated to the town of Bardowick only a few miles to the north. Bardowick online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 older and was an important trading post for the Slavs. Bardowick's prosperity — it had seven churches — was based purely on the fact that online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 other trading centres were tolerated.
Only when Bardowick refused to pay allegiance to Henry the Lion was it destroyed by him inwhereupon Lüneburg was given town privileges Stadtrechte and developed into the central trading post in the region in place of Bardowick. The Polabian name for Lüneburg is Glain written as Chlein or Glein in older German sourcesprobably derived from glaino Slavonic : glina which means "clay". In the Latin texts Lüneburg surfaces not only as the Latinised Lunaburgumbut also as Selenopolis. As a consequence of the monopoly that Lüneburg had for many years as a supplier of salt within the North German region, a monopoly not challenged until much later by French imports, it very quickly became a member of the Hanseatic Online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. The League was formed in in Lübeckinitially as a union of individual merchants, but in it met as a federation of trading towns at the first general meeting of the Hansetag.
Lüneburg's salt was needed in order to pickle the herring caught in the Baltic Sea and the waters around Norway so that it could be preserved for food inland during periods of fasting when fish not meat was permitted.
The Scania Market at Scania in Sweden was a major fish market for herring and became one of the most important trade events in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages. Lüneburg's salt was in great demand and the town quickly became one of the wealthiest and most important towns in the Hanseatic League, together with Bergen and Visby the fish suppliers and Lübeck the central trading post between the Baltic and the interior.
In the Middle Ages salt was initially conveyed overland up the Old Salt Road to Lübeck. With the opening of the Stecknitz Canal in salt could be transported by cog from the Lübeck salt warehouses, the Salzspeicher.
Around the yearthe Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg emerged, ruled by a family whose aristocratic lines repeatedly divided and re-united. The smaller states that kept re-appearing as a result, and which ranked as principalities, were usually named after the location of the ducal seat. Thus between and a Principality of Lüneburg was created for the first time, with Lüneburg as the seat of the royal Residenz.
Inin the wake of the Lüneburg War of Successionrebel citizens threw the princes out of the town and destroyed their royal castle on the Kalkberg along with the nearby monastery. The state peace treaty in granted their demand to become a free imperial towna status they were able to defend until The money now stayed in the town, enabling fine houses and churches to be built.
In Lüneburg was accorded the staple right, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. This forced merchants who travelled through the area with their carts to stop in Lüneburg, unload their wares, and offer them for sale for a certain period, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. So that merchants could not go around Lüneburg, an impassable defensive barrier was built west of the town in ; a similar barrier was built east of the town in The Lüneburg Prelates' War caused a crisis from to This was not a war in the proper sense, but rather a bitter dispute between the town council and those members of the clergy who were also part-owners of the town's saltworks.
It was not resolved until the intervention of the Danish King Christian Ithe Bishop of Schwerin and the Lübeck Bishop, Arnold Westphal. SinceLüneburg has once again held the title of a Hanseatic town. With the demise of the Hanseatic League — and the absence of herrings around around Falsterbo in Scania — the biggest customers of Lüneburg's salt broke away and the town rapidly became impoverished.
Hardly any new houses were built in central Lüneburg after this time, which is why the historical appearance of the town centre has remained almost unchanged until the present day.
The town became part of the Online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 of Hanover inthe Kingdom of Westphalia inthe First French Empire inthe Kingdom of Hanover inand the Prussian Province of Hanover in In the centuries after the collapse of the League, it was as if Lüneburg had fallen into a Sleeping Beauty slumber.
Heinrich Heinewhose parents lived in Lüneburg from tocalled it his "residence of boredom" Residenz der Langeweile. Near the end of the 19th century Lüneburg evolved into a garrison town, and it remained so until the s. In the Lüneburg Special Children's Ward, part of the Lüneburg State Mental Hospital, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, it is suspected that over children were killed during the Second World War as part of the official Nazi child euthanasia programme.
In Lüneburg surfaced once again in the history books when, south of the town on the hill known as the Timeloberg near the village online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 Wendisch Evern the German Instrument of Surrender was signed that brought the Second World War in Europe to an end. The location is presently inaccessible to the general public as it lies within a military out-of-bounds area, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. Only a small monument on a nearby track alludes to the event.
On 23 May Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler took his own life in Lüneburg whilst in British Army custody by biting into a potassium cyanide capsule embedded in his teeth before he could be properly interrogated. He was subsequently buried in an unmarked location in a nearby forest, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975. Even before the Nuremberg Trials took place, the first war crimes trial, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, the so-called Belsen Trial Bergen-Belsen-Prozessbegan in Lüneburg on 17 September conducted against 45 former SS men, women and kapos prisoner functionaries from the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps.
After World War II, Lüneburg became part of the new state of Lower Saxony. But the dilapidated state of its buildings led to various plans to try to improve living conditions. One proposition that was seriously discussed was to tear down the entire Altstadt and replace it with modern buildings. The ensuing public protest resulted in Lüneburg becoming the focal point for a new concept: cultural heritage conservation.
Since the early s the town has been systematically restored. A leading figure in this initiative since the late s has been Curt Pomp: against much opposition from politicians and councillors he founded and championed the Lüneburg Altstadt Working Group Arbeitskreis Lüneburger Altstadt for the preservation of historic buildings.
His engagement was rewarded with the German Prize for Cultural Heritage Conservation and the German Order of Merit. Today Lüneburg is a tourist attraction as a result of the restoration and important sectors of the town's economy also depend on tourism, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975.
Between Lüneburg and Soltau to the southwest, a large military training areathe Soltau-Lüneburg Training Area SLTAwas established by the British and Canadian military, which was used from to It was governed by the Soltau-Lüneburg Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada.
The area was located on the Lüneburg Heath and was heavily used particularly by tanks and other armoured vehicles. The salt mine was closed inending the thousand-year tradition of salt mining, online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975, although small amounts are still mined for ceremonial purposes.
Small bags of salt may be purchased in the town hall, and bags are given as a gift from the town to all couples married in the town. After the closing of the salt mines, the town gained new relevance from its university, which was founded in As part of the restructuring of Defence in two of the three Bundeswehr barracks in the town were closed and the remaining one reduced in size. The Bundesgrenzschutz barracks was also closed. Lüneburg University moved to the site of the old Scharnhorst barracks.
The university grew out of the new economics and cultural studies departments set up in the s and their amalgamation with the College of Education Pädagogischen Hochschule or PH that took place in Since its move to the former online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 site the university has enrolled increasing numbers of students.
The expansion of the university is an important contribution to the restructuring of the town into a service centre. Today an industrial estate, the Lüneparkhas been built on the terrain of the old Bundesgrenzschutz barracks with its new industrial premises for entrepreneurs. The promotion of trade and industry has resulted in many firms from the ICT area locating themselves there. In May the nearby Johannes Westphal Bridge was opened to traffic.
This links the newly created Lünepark with the suburb of Goseburg on the far side of the Ilmenau. Since 5 October Lüneburg has been able to call itself a Hanseatic Online dating lüneburg 23.11.1975 together with Stade it is one of only two towns in Lower Saxony to bear the title. Lüneburg lies on the river Ilmenauabout 30 kilometres 19 mi from its confluence with the Elbe.
The river flows through the town and is featured in its song ; it was formerly traversed by cogs taking salt from the town to the other, larger, ports of the Hanseatic League nearby. To the south of the town stretches the 7,square-kilometre 2, sq mi Lüneburg Heath which emerged as a result of widespread tree-felling, forest fires and grazing.
The tradition that the heath arose from centuries of logging undertaken to meet the constant need of the Lüneburg salt works for wood is not historically confirmed. More likely, the heath was originally formed by clearances during the Bronze Age. The old town Altstadt of Lüneburg lies above a salt dome which is the town's original source of prosperity.
However, the constant mining of the salt deposits over which the town stands has also resulted in the sometimes gradual, sometimes dramatically pronounced, sinking of various areas of the town.
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