Lüchow (Wendland)

Lüchow
Climate diagram
	Temperature in ° C , precipitation in mm
	Source: wetterkontor.de

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Joint municipality :	Lüchow (Wendland)
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	89.11 km 2
Residents:	9428 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	106 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	29439
Area code :	05841
License plate :	DAN
Community key :	03 3 54 018
City structure:	24 districts
; City administration address :	Theodor-Körner-Strasse 14 ; 29439 Lüchow (Wendland)
Website :	luechow-wendland.de
Mayor :	Manfred Lover ( SPD )
Location of the city of Lüchow (Wendland) in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district

Lüchow (Wendland) [ ˈlyːçoː ] is a city in northeast Lower Saxony in southern Wendland . Lüchow is the administrative seat of the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland) and the district town of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district .

location

Lüchow is located in the southern part of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . The Jeetzel River flows through the city . The landscape is determined by the in Saale complex incurred Drawehn in the west and the largely weichselglazial shaped overmolded Lüchower lowland (lower terrace), still part of the same - glacial valley is. The locally significant heights are the Kolborner Berg with 24 m in the east and the somewhat lower Jeetzeler Berg in the southwest.

expansion

The urban area of Lüchow covers 89.01 km².

City structure

Long Street (1956)

The city of Lüchow is divided into 24 districts :

Climate table

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Lüchow

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2	4th	8th	13	18th	21st	23	23	19th	13	7th	4th	O	13
Min. Temperature (° C)	−3	−3	0	3	7th	10	12	11	9	6th	2	−1	O	4.5

Precipitation ( mm )	40	35	35	40	50	60	65	55	40	35	43	45	Σ	543

Hours of sunshine ( h / d )	1.4	2.3	3.7	5.2	7.2	7.4	6.9	6.7	4.8	3.3	1.7	1.2	O	4.3

Rainy days ( d )	18th	16	13	14th	14th	14th	17th	16	15th	17th	18th	18th	Σ	190

Humidity ( % )	88	85	80	75	71	73	74	75	80	85	87	88	O	80.1

Source: wetterkontor.de

history

The official tower as the last remnant of Lüchow Castle

The place was first mentioned in 1158 and received city rights in 1293 . In 1320 the County of Lüchow became the property of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . From the late medieval city fortifications, only one tower remains today, which is used as a bell tower for the 13th century St. John's Church . A city gate built in 1555 , which separated the city center from the Drawehner suburb in the west, was demolished in 1793. Between 1471 and 1473, the wife of Duke Otto V of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Countess Anna von Nassau-Dillenburg (1440–1513), had the Count's Castle expanded into a palace. Lüchow Castle served her as a widow's residence for a number of years (1496–1504). In 1537 Lüchow was hit by the plague . Most of the city burned down in 1589. In 1608, a conflagration left most of the city of Lüchow in ashes.

The greatest catastrophe in the history of the city occurred in 1811. Large areas of Lüchow were destroyed in a great fire that also destroyed the town hall and the castle. In 1855 the union with the two suburbs, the Salzwedeler and the Drawehner Vorstadt took place.

The Polish name for Lüchow is Ljauchüw (written as Lgauchi or Lieuschü in older German sources).

The Lüchow overseas radio reception center existed from 1938 to 1986.

From 1852 to 1974 Lüchow was the seat of a local court. In 1972, as part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony, the joint municipality Lüchow was created. In 2006 the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland) was formed from the joint municipalities Lüchow and Clenze.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the communities in the Lüchow area were reorganized and 19 previously independent communities were incorporated into the city of Lüchow. Beutow, Bösel, Gollau, Grabow, Jabel, Jeetzel, Kolborn, Krautze, K Wunsch, Loge, Plate, Ranzau, Reetze, Rehbeck, Saaße, Satemin, Seerau in der Lucie, Tarmitz and Weitsche were incorporated.

Population development

year	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	10,418	10,631	10,623	11.097	9,955	10,078	9,826	9.432	9,481

politics

The city of Lüchow belongs to the state electoral district 48 Elbe and to the federal electoral district 38 Lüchow-Dannenberg-Lüneburg .

City council

Lüchow market square with the old town hall (left) and the Ratskeller (right)

The City Council of Lüchow has 25 members including the mayor.

Party / list	CDU	SPD	UWG	Green	SOLI ¹	EB ²	BL ³	total
Seats 2011	7th	7th	5	3	1	2	-	25 seats
Seats 2016	7th	8th	6th	2	1	-	1	25 seats

¹ socio-ecological list, ² individual applicants in the Green parliamentary group , one each in the CDU parliamentary group and one in the UWG parliamentary group,
³ citizens' list

mayor

Mayor of the city of Lüchow is Manfred Lover (SPD).

Community partnerships

Lüchow maintains partnerships with the following cities and municipalities:

Céret (France), since 1983
Newberg (USA), since 1985
Oborniki (Poland), since 2007
Hallefors (Sweden)

religion

St. John's Church

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannis Church is the oldest church in Lüchow, it is named after John the Baptist . Your parish is part of the church district Lüchow-Dannenberg of the Church of Hanover and is home to the superintendent. Other evangelical institutions in Lüchow are the St. Johannis kindergarten, the St. Georg nursing home, the Georgshof evangelical counseling service, the cafeteria in the school district and the Lüchow cemetery. In Plate stands the church of St. Mary , which is unusually large for a village . Other Protestant churches and chapels are located in the towns of Satemin, Kolborn and Jeetzel, which are incorporated into Lüchow.

St. Agnes Church

The Catholic St. Agnes Church is located on Hindenburgstrasse, the church named after Agnes of Rome was built in 1913/14. Her parish belongs to the Dean's Office in Lüneburg, and since 2006 the Catholic Church in Dannenberg has also belonged to it . The branch church in Clenze was profaned in 2012 .

There is a New Apostolic Church on Drawehner Strasse. From 1945 onwards, New Apostolic divine services took place in various profane rooms. In 1962/63, a church that still exists today was built and consecrated in 1963. Today the congregation belongs to the New Apostolic Church in Northern Germany .

The Bible Baptist Congregation has a meeting house in Lüchow and the Jehovah's Witnesses have a Kingdom Hall .

Culture and sights

Official tower, remnant of the former castle of the County of Lüchow

Bell tower, north elevation

Museums

There are two museums in Lüchow: in a preserved tower of the Lüchow Castle, which burned down in 1811, the Amtsturm Museum opened in 1930 - the oldest museum in the district - which presents the history of the Lüchow counts and the Lüchow town history, and the Stones fan since 2011 -Museum dedicated to British rock band The Rolling Stones . Together with the other museums in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district, they belong to the Lüchow-Dannenberg e. V. at.

Buildings

The natural surroundings and some typical Wendland round villages in the neighborhood are worth seeing . There are many half-timbered houses in the city center. The German half-timbered road runs through the city .

Sports

There is an indoor pool in Plater Weg , which was extensively refurbished in terms of energy by 2013 and then reopened as a year-round pool under the name LüBad.

The three Lüchow sports clubs FC Lüchow, TuS Lüchow and SV Sporting merged on January 1, 2007 to form SC Lüchow .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The city is located on federal highway 248 and federal highway 493 . In 2010 Lüchow received a bypass road. The next train stations are in Dannenberg , Salzwedel and Schnega . The Lüchow – Dannenberg railway line is to be reactivated. There is a traffic landing pad in the Rehbeck district .

media

The daily newspaper for Wendland printed in Lüchow was published from 1855 to 1934.

The Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung appears in Lüchow , as well as the Kiebitz belonging to the same publisher and the Generalanzeiger newspaper .

The regional broadcaster Radio ZuSa reports on VHF over Lüchow and the surrounding area.

education

In the joint municipality of Lüchow (Wendland) there are ten primary schools , a secondary school , a secondary school , a grammar school ( Gymnasium Lüchow ), a vocational school with a vocational grammar school for business and a vocational grammar school for technology, a special school , a district adult education center and district music school . In 2008 the Academy for Renewable Energies Lüchow-Dannenberg GmbH was founded.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Ludolf Hawenkel , also Houdenkerle († 1521), Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Nikolaus Krage (around 1500–1559) Lutheran theologian and the reformer of Minden, brother of Tilemann Cragius
Tilemann Cragius (around 1520–1577) Lutheran theologian, brother of Nikolaus Krage
Joachim Friedrich Lehzen (1735–1800) pastor, father of Louise Lehzen
Bernhard Baurschmidt (1839–1906), member of the Reichstag, high president in Breslau
Bodo Voigts (1844–1920), lawyer and president of the Old Prussian Evangelical Upper Church Council
Theodor Abbetmeyer (1869–1944) pedagogue, author and National Socialist cultural journalist
Friedrich Syrup (1881–1945), lawyer and politician
Gottfried Wentz (1894–1945), archivist and historian
Dieter Krebs (1933–2011), gynecologist
Wolfgang Rösel (* 1936), architect, construction manager and university professor
Horst Krüger (* 1952), cantor, organist, composer and choir director
René Pascal (* 1953), pop singer
Eckhard Gnodtke (* 1958), municipal official in Salzwedel, Member of the Bundestag
Dirk Looschelders (born October 21, 1960), legal scholar
Eka von Kalben (* 1964), politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
Christian Bönig (born September 25, 1977), press spokesman for Hannover 96

People connected to the city

Anna von Nassau (around 1441–1513) had Lüchower Castle expanded and lived there for a time
Sophie Elisabeth of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , b. Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1613–1676), died in Lüchow
Karl Gustav Wilhelm Baurschmidt (1806–1864), Protestant theologian, known as Luther des Wendland
Heinrich Tessenow (1876–1950), architect and town planner, worked as a teacher at the building trade school in Lüchow
Jürgen Goertz (* 1939), sculptor, graduated from high school in Lüchow in 1960
Dieter Burmester (1946–2015), entrepreneur and musician, grew up in Lüchow and is a member of the Lüchow band The Echos
Detlef Weigel (* 1961), German-American biologist, grew up in Lüchow

literature

Chronicle of the city of Lüchow . Pressure u. Verlagsgesellschaft E. Köhring, Lüchow 1949, 2nd unchanged. Reprinted in 1989
Karl Kowalewski: Lüchow. From the Middle Ages to the present. Contributions to the history of the Jeetzel city . Stade 1980
Karl Kowalewski: The great fire of Lüchow in 1811 and the reconstruction of the city , Lüchow 2006
Karl Kowalewski: Of antiquity and love of home. Notes and observations on the occasion of the double anniversary; 75 years of the Wendland Antiquities Association 1905–1980; 50 years of the Wendland local history museum 1930–1980 . Lüchow 1980
Burghard Kulow: Lüchow (Wendland), The 50s and 60s . Horb 2006
Hans Nordsiek: From Lüchow to Salzwedel - on the trail of the Minden reformer Nicolaus Krage . In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsverein, 53/1981, pp. 51–106
Peter and Torsten Schoepe: Lüchow. Change of the cityscape in 120 years . Lüchow 1985
Johann Parum Schultze ; Reinhold Olesch (ed.): Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores et Chronica Venedica JP Schultzii . (= Slavic research; Volume 7). Böhlau, Cologne and Graz 1967
Christian Hennig von Jessen : Vocabularium Venedicum (or Wendish Word Book) (1705). Reprinted by Reinhold Olesch. - Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau 1959 (the informant of Pastor C. Hennig von Jessen was the Polish-speaking farmer Johann Janieschge from Klennow )
Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: Kurhannoversche Amtsjuristen in Lüchow (1694–1866), in: GENEALOGIE Deutsche Zeitschrift für Familienkunde, Verlag Degener & Co. 91610 Insingen, issue 2/2007, pp. 558–573.

Web links

Commons : Lüchow - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lüchow (Wendland) - travel guide

Wikisource: Luchow in the Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg (Matthäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Homepage of the joint community Lüchow (Wendland)
Lüchow, St. Johannis. Organ from Hermann Eule (2006) on the website of NOMINE (= North German organ music culture in Lower Saxony and Europe)

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

↑ cf. the name "Kolborn Alps"

↑ § 1, statutes defining the school districts in the primary area of the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland). In: Local law of the joint municipality Lüchow (Wendland). As of March 18, 2012, p. 36, 37 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note .; 512 kB).

↑ Jürgen Schmidt: The climate in Lüchow. In: Wetterkontor. Retrieved March 29, 2013 .

↑ Blazek, Matthias: Das Löschwesen in the area of the former Principality of Lüneburg from the beginnings to 1900, Adelheidsdorf 2006, p. 93, ISBN 978-3-00-019837-3 .

↑ § 5 (4), law on the reorganization of the communities in the Lüchow area. In: Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette. No. 30, Volume 26, Hanover June 27, 1972.

↑ Landtag constituencies from the 16th electoral term. Constituency division for the election to the Lower Saxony state parliament. Appendix to § 10 para. 1 NLWG, p. 4. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 87 kB).

↑ Description of the constituencies. Annex to Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Federal Election Act. In: Eighteenth law amending the federal electoral law. Appendix to Article 1. Bonn March 18, 2008, p. 325. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note .; 200 kB).

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Parish of St. Agnes. In: kk-lue-dan.de. Retrieved October 21, 2012 .
↑ Amtsturm Museum Lüchow. (No longer available online.) In: luechow-dannenberg.de. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013 ; Retrieved October 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Stones Fan Museum Lüchow. (No longer available online.) In: luechow-dannenberg.de. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015 ; Retrieved August 2, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Internet pages of the Museumsverbund Lüchow-Dannenberg e. V.
↑ About us. Academy for Renewable Energies Lüchow-Dannenberg, accessed on March 11, 2016 .
↑ Wendland-Lexikon, Volume 2, Lüchow 2008, p. 462.
↑ Should "be the pride of the city". ( Memento from January 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung. November 13, 2008.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-NI-1] State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).

[2] . the name "Kolborn Alps"