Lüchow-Dannenberg district
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Coordinates: 53 ° 1 ' N , 11 ° 7' E |
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Basic data | |
State : | Lower Saxony |
Administrative headquarters : | Lüchow (Wendland) |
Area : | 1,220.75 km 2 |
Residents: | 48,412 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 40 inhabitants per km 2 |
License plate : | DAN |
Circle key : | 03 3 54 |
NUTS : | DE934 |
Circle structure: | 27 municipalities |
Address of the district administration: |
Königsberger Strasse 10 29439 Lüchow (Wendland) |
Website : | |
District Administrator : | Jürgen Schulz (independent) |
Location of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in Lower Saxony | |
The district of Lüchow-Dannenberg is the easternmost district in Lower Saxony and, with a good 48,000 inhabitants, the smallest in Germany in terms of population and the most sparsely populated district in the old federal states . The district is a member of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and the Lüneburg Landscape Association . The district town and most populous place in the district is the eponymous Lüchow (Wendland) , the second largest and also eponymous city is Dannenberg (Elbe) .
The name Hannoversches Wendland (often simplified also just Wendland ) is derived from the Wends ( Polaben ), the Slavic natives who settled there around the 9th century and left the typical round villages .
geography
location
The Lüchow-Dannenberg district is located in the northern German transition zone from the subatlantic to the subcontinental climate . The Göhrde-Drawehn ridge , which separates the Wendland and Altmark natural areas from the Lüneburg Heath in the west, acts as a weather and climate divide and increases the continental influence on the east side.
The second determining landscape element is the Elbe with its extensive floodplain. The Elbe glacial- shaped Elbe- Urstromtal can be subdivided into the actual Elbe valley and the Lüchower low terrace with the Jeetzel low , the Gartower drifting sand hill and several hall- glacial Geestinseln. The most important island-like geest plates protruding from the lowlands are the Langendorfer Geestinsel ("Langendorfer Berg"), the Lemgow and the Öring. In addition, as a special feature, there is the elevation of the Höhbeck , a so-called compression moraine in the middle of the Elbe valley lowlands. (A more detailed natural description can be found at: Wendland and Altmark .) The elevations in Lüchow-Dannenberg range from less than 9 m above sea level in parts of the Elbe valley up to 142 m above sea level ( Hoher Mechtin ) in Drawehn.
Neighboring areas
It borders clockwise in the northeast, starting with the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim (in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ), the district of Prignitz (in Brandenburg ), the districts of Stendal and Altmarkkreis Salzwedel (both in Saxony-Anhalt ) and the districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg (both in Lower Saxony).
Flora and fauna
Due to the climatic transition, the natural diversity and the low human settlement density - which is also the result of the extensive floods of the Elbe and its tributaries that used to occur regularly - the Lüchow-Dannenberg district still has a particularly species-rich and sometimes rare flora and fauna. Large parts of the Elbe landscape in particular are protected as biosphere reserves and FFH areas. The rest of the district is an integral part of the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park .
Nature reserves
There are 14 nature reserves in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . The largest ( Die Lucie ) has an area of 1,800 ha , the smallest ( Black Mountain near Krummasel ) an area of 3 ha.
See also:
- List of nature reserves in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- List of landscape protection areas in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- List of natural monuments in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- List of protected landscape components in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
history
Administrative history
The Lüchow-Dannenberg district was created on October 1, 1932 through the merger of the two Prussian districts of Dannenberg and Lüchow formed in 1885 . The area of the new district thus corresponded to the old Hanoverian offices of Dannenberg and Lüchow together with the two independent cities of Dannenberg and Lüchow until 1885 . The new district was initially called the district of Dannenberg and its district town was initially the city of Dannenberg . By the demarcation of the zones of occupation after the Second World War until then to come in 1945 Mecklenburg belonging linkselbische community Kaltenhof added to the district, which has since 232 municipalities and two unincorporated areas included.
In 1951 the district seat was relocated to the city of Lüchow and the district was renamed Lüchow-Dannenberg district . This was preceded by five years of bitter dispute between Lüchow and Dannenberg; Thoughts and pamphlets were written in which both sides accused each other of falsifying history and egoism. The old rivalry later broke out again in the dispute over structural reform. To smaller changes in the administrative structure, it came on July 1, 1957, when Sarchem after Hitzacker was incorporated on 1 January 1961, when Seelwig to Clenze , was incorporated and on 1 February 1971 as Prisser was incorporated to Dannenberg.
A comprehensive reform of the community took place through the law on the reorganization of the communities in the Lüchow area on July 1, 1972, when the current administrative structure was created through a drastic reduction in the number of communities. Before that, the district last consisted of 229 communities. This was the highest number of parishes in all districts of the then Federal Republic. This is all the more remarkable given that in 1972 the district had the lowest population of any district in West Germany (today it has the lowest population of any district in Germany). About 80 communities had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The smallest municipality in Germany, Liepehöfen , had a population of 3 at the time it was incorporated into the city of Dannenberg. Due to the regional reform of 1972, the outer borders of the district also changed. The municipalities of Meußiessen and Reddien from the district of Uelzen were incorporated into the municipalities of Clenze and Zernien , respectively . In addition, the communities of Dübbekold and Katemin from the Lüneburg district were incorporated into the communities of Göhrde and Neu Darchau , respectively . The two communities Kakau and Varbitz left the Lüchow-Dannenberg district and were incorporated into the Soltendieck community in the Uelzen district.
A detailed description of the cities, towns and villages in the district can be found in the article List of Settlements in the Lüchow-Dannenberg District .
The amber animal, one of the oldest amber figures from prehistoric times, was found in the community of Weitsche in 1994 .
On June 28, 2001 the municipal partnership agreement with the Polish Obornicki district was signed. After the district administration has moved, the district court and the former district hospital (now privatized as the Elbe-Jeetzel-Klinik) are still in Dannenberg.
Structural reform of the administration
Due to the over-indebtedness of the poorly populated district and its communities, various approaches to municipal reform were under discussion. Variant 1 envisaged the conversion of the district into a city without a district , whereby the 27 municipalities would then become districts without their own administration. Alternatively, a merger of the integrated communities into only two integrated communities was considered, possibly with the dissolution of the district and assignment of the two integrated communities to the neighboring districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg.
The conversion of the district into an independent city was clearly rejected by the 27 municipalities in the district. They claimed that the main cost driver would be the county administration and rather advocated a dissolution of the county. Later considerations were to reduce the number of congregations to 15 first. In addition, it was suggested that only one congregation should be formed. This joint congregation should then also take on the tasks of the district administration. This would have created the new construct of an independent communal community. On December 17, 2004, the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung quoted Interior Minister Schünemann as saying that this was legally possible. After all, the dissolution of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district was already planned with the district reform on August 1, 1977, but was postponed.
By mid-May 2005, a large majority in the councils and in the opinion published by the local newspaper emerged in favor of the variant of the independent municipality. However, it was questionable whether this construction would last. Critics suspected that a state-wide district reform in Lower Saxony in 2008 (or later) would in any case lead to a redesign of the regional authorities, with a "district-free joint municipality Lüchow-Dannenberg" in all probability merging into the neighboring districts of Uelzen and / or Lüneburg.
After the municipal council resolutions it became clear that there was still no unanimity in the variant "Kreisfrei Samtgemeinde". Rather, the historically grown rivalry between the south (former Lüchow district) and the north (former Dannenberg district) seemed to break up again. The supporters of the independent community (based in Lüchow) all came from the southern district. The committees of the two joint communities and all twelve communities in the southern district voted for the formation of a non-district joint community. In the votes that took place in the two integrated municipalities and in all ten municipalities in the northern district, on the other hand, a unanimous vote was against a single independent municipality and instead for the merger of the current municipalities of Dannenberg and Hitzacker to form a single municipality of Elbtalaue . This was justified with a better regional identity and closeness to the citizen, and in any case only a transitional step was assumed with regard to a future national structural reform. Of the six committees of the Ostkreis (integrated community Gartow), three each voted for or against the independent integrated community.
From October 26th to November 6th, 2005, the population in the district voted by postal vote with 53.27 percent for a district-free joint municipality with the district dissolved. However, no determination of the results at the community or all-inclusive community level was carried out, which reduces the informative value of the vote. The voting was only counted at the district level. The result is remarkable in that it essentially only reflects the population distribution (north district 42.3%, east district 7.8% and south district 50.0%).
Although the majority of the population voted for the dissolution of the district or for the conversion of it into a district-free joint municipality, the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior has not dissolved the district due to legal concerns and the threat of legal action by some communities.
The new model finally envisaged the formation of three integrated communities. The integrated municipality Gartow was retained, Hitzacker and Dannenberg merged to form the integrated municipality Elbtalaue and Lüchow and Clenze formed the integrated municipality Lüchow (Wendland).
History of religion
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1933 | 41,246 | |
1939 | 40,530 | |
1950 | 72,741 | |
1960 | 52,500 | |
1970 | 50,600 | |
1980 | 48,700 | |
1990 | 49,215 | |
2000 | 52,100 | |
2010 | 49.213 | |
2015 | 50.128 |
politics
The Lüchow-Dannenberg district is part of the Elbe state electoral district 48 and the Lüchow-Dannenberg-Lüneburg federal electoral district 38 .
District council
Since the last election on September 11, 2016, the district council has had 42 members and the district administrator. The local election resulted in the following result:
Parties and constituencies | Percent 2016 |
Seats 2016 |
Percent 2011 |
Seats 2011 |
Percent 2006 |
Seats 2006 |
Percent 2001 |
Seats 2001 |
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CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 30.26 | 13 | 30.62 | 12 | 42.0 | 16 | 46.4 | 20th |
SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 17.89 | 7th | 19.78 | 8th | 22.4 | 8th | 23.2 | 10 |
Green | Alliance 90 / The Greens | 11.65 | 5 | 19.68 | 7th | 7.3 | 3 | 4.7 | 2 |
FDP | Free Democratic Party | 3.04 | 1 | 2.76 | 1 | 5.1 | 2 | 4.5 | 2 |
UWG | Independent voter community | 16.76 | 7th | 13.36 | 5 | - | - | - | - |
SOLI | Socio-ecological list / SOLI | 8.66 | 4th | 8.26 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
Citizen List | Citizen List | 3.98 | 2 | 3.93 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
FWW | Free voters Wendland | - | - | 1.60 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Flat share | Voter communities | - | - | - | - | 23.3 | 9 | 20.2 | 8th |
AfD | Alternative for Germany | 7.26 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
total | 100 | 42 | 100 | 38 | 100 | 38 | 100 | 42 | |
Turnout in percent | 59.09 | 59.41 | 56.2 | 62.6 |
- Voting communities, as the results from 2001 and 2006 cannot be broken down to individual voter communities.
- In addition to the elected members of the district council, the district administrator belongs to the district council.
District Administrator
Jürgen Schulz ( independent ) was elected district administrator in 2006 . In 2014 he was confirmed in his office.
coat of arms
The coat of arms was approved by the Prussian State Ministry by decree of July 24, 1935. The blazon reads: “Split: In front on a white background a green fir tree growing on a black mountain, wood and roots red (Dannenberg); in the back three golden diamonds (Lüchow). "
The coats of arms of the communities in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district can be found under List of coats of arms in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district .
Partnerships
The Lüchow-Dannenberg district maintains partnerships with
- the Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf (since 1979, then the district of Steglitz )
- the Polish Powiat Obornicki (since 2001)
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
The district is structurally weak and has a strong agricultural character. In addition to agriculture and tourism, the labor market is dominated by a few larger industrial companies, including “ ContiTech AG ” in Dannenberg and “ SKF ” in Lüchow, as well as WZT (Wendland Zerspanungstechnik) in Hitzacker and Zuther GmbH in Karwitz. In the Future Atlas 2016 , the Lüchow-Dannenberg district was ranked 393 out of 402 districts and independent cities in Germany, making it one of the regions with "very high future risks". The district takes the last place among all districts and cities in western Germany.
In the municipality of Gorleben , the "Brennelementlager Gorleben GmbH - BLG", a subsidiary of the Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service (GNS), operates the well-known interim storage facility for highly radioactive nuclear waste. In addition to the interim storage facility, there are other facilities (partly planned) for the treatment and storage of radioactive waste in the community (including a pilot conditioning system (PKA) and a mine that is known nationwide for its suitability as a repository for highly radioactive waste due to the exploration of a salt dome there) has been.
In 1997 the district council decided to strive for a power supply from 100% renewable energies . To support this development, the Academy for Renewable Energies Lüchow-Dannenberg GmbH was founded in 2008, based in Lüchow. In 2012, 15% more electricity was generated than the region itself consumed.
The official circular gazette is the Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung .
traffic
Streets
The federal highways B 71 (Bremerhaven) - (Uelzen) - Bergen (Dumme) - (Salzwedel) - Magdeburg - (Könnern), B 191 (Plau am See) - (Dömitz) - Dannenberg - Zernien - (Uelzen) run through the district. - (Celle), B 216 (Lüneburg) - Dannenberg, B 248 (Northeim) - (Salzwedel) - Lübbow - Lüchow - Dannenberg and B 493 Schnackenburg - Gartow - Lüchow - Waddeweitz - (Uelzen).
Originally the A 25 was supposed to lead from Hamburg to Berlin and would have connected the district to the motorway network. However, this plan was discarded and an alternative route was built that corresponds to the A 24 .
During the GDR era it was also planned to build a motorway (A 24a) to the inner-German border . A northern bypass of Bardowick and Adendorf and a route north from Neetze to Schnackenburg were planned as the route. Due to the political decision in favor of the A 24 in the Schleswig-Holstein area, the A 24a was not implemented in the form shown.
In 2011, the district had the highest number of road deaths in terms of population in Germany.
railroad
- The Stendal – Uelzen railway line touches the south of the district.
- The " Wendlandbahn " Lüneburg – Dannenberg Ost opens up the north of the district.
- Rail traffic on the Dannenberg – Salzwedel railway line is idle . There are occasional special trips between Dannenberg and Lüchow
- On the disused Uelzen – Dannenberg line , some of the tracks were removed in 2005/2006, but the sleepers remained. Some level crossings on this route have also been paved over.
- The Dannenberg-Dömitz line was dismantled due to the division of Germany and war damage.
- The Lüchow-Schmarsau railway line was first shut down due to insufficient demand and then dismantled.
Public transport
The bus traffic is currently run by the RBB and the LSE . Individual lines are also served by the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel mbH (PVGS) and the KVG Stade .
Transmission masts
On the Höhbeck , a 76 m above sea level. NN high elevation on the Elbe, there were two transmission masts with 326 meters and 344 meters high. The latter served until 1990 for the implementation of a radio link to Berlin-Frohnau . The smaller Gartow I transmission mast was blown up in August 2009. See transmitter Höhbeck .
In Zernien operates NDR the transmitter Dannenberg / Zernien with a 258 meter high transmission tower.
Culture
The Lüchow-Dannenberg district has - compared to other districts of its size - an extraordinarily diverse range of cultural activities. The following annually recurring cultural events in particular are known beyond the district boundaries:
- Hitzacker Music Week (February / March)
- Dannenberg Chamber Music Week (April / May)
- Cultural country party (May / June, between Ascension and Pentecost)
- Mützingenta (May / June, between Ascension and Pentecost)
- Summer Music Days Hitzacker (July / August)
- Schubertiaden Schnackenburg (July / August)
- Trebel Organ Night (end of July)
- Gartow Organ Summer (beginning of July to end of August)
Twelve museums are dedicated to the regional history of Lüchow-Dannenberg:
- Amtsturm Museum Lüchow
- Hitzacker Archaeological Center
- Blue House Museum Clenze
- Museum Old Customs House Hitzacker (Elbe)
- Grenzlandmuseum Schnackenburg
- Höhbeckmuseum Vietze
- Historical fire brigade museum Neu Tramm
- Museum Wustrow
- Naturum Göhrde
- Rundlingsmuseum Wendlandhof Lübeln
- Swinmark-Grenzlandmuseum Göhr
- Museum in the Waldemarturm Dannenberg
A thirteenth museum is dedicated to the history of the Rolling Stones:
- Stones Fan Museum Lüchow
The thirteen museums are united in the Lüchow-Dannenberg Museum Association .
Other cultural sights:
- Westwendischer Kulturverein: the association regularly presents changing exhibitions in Gartow in the Zehntspeicher and in the Kunstkammer
- Damnatz Sculpture Garden : The 10,000 square meter artist park shows 30 large sculptures on the open-air site directly on the Elbe. Art exhibitions, readings and concerts take place in a former barn.
- Peace Church in Coasts: contemporary design of the church by the modern artist Jürgen Goertz , which has thus received a unique design that extends far beyond the region.
- There are reliably open churches in Kuesten, Lüchow, Dannenberg, Hitzacker , Bergen an der Dumme, Gartow, Restorf, Holtorf, Schnackenburg, Meetschow, Kapern and Trebel, most of which are also cycle path churches .
- Wendland Summer Academy : originally an open education and art program in August, which now takes place all year round
architecture
The district belongs to the area of the Low German Fachhallenhaus .
This type of building, which used to be found here exclusively, whose peculiarity is based on the principle of uniting cattle shed, harvest area and apartment under one roof, still determines the appearance of numerous villages today. The older form of this house is the two- column house (Kübbungsbau), which has been increasingly replaced by the four-column house since the 17th century . The three-column house is a hybrid of two- and four-column construction. With almost the same volume, the same house width and height, but often changed half-timbered and gable structure, the same building materials and the same scale, these houses determine the spatially closed image of these villages.
Communities
Since November 1, 2006, the Lüchow-Dannenberg district has been divided into three joint municipalities with a total of 27 municipalities and two municipality-free areas . The current structure was created with the law to strengthen local self-government in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district.
The number of inhabitants on December 31, 2019 in brackets.
Joint municipalities with their member municipalities
* Seat of the joint municipality administration
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Former parishes
The following list contains all former municipalities that ever belonged to the Lüchow-Dannenberg district.
Incorporation dates: 1) February 1, 1971, 2) July 1, 1957, 3) January 1, 1961
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive sign DAN (name of the district until 1951: district of Dannenberg ) when the vehicle license plates were introduced . It is still issued today.
District administrators
- Karl zu Solms-Laubach (1907 to 1919)
See also
- List of settlements in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- Church district Lüchow-Dannenberg
- List of secondary schools in the district
literature
- Wendland Lexicon . Ed .: Wolfgang Jürries and Berndt Wachter , Köhring, Lüchow 2008, Vol. 1: A – K, 2nd edition, 424 pp., Ill., Kt, ISBN 978-3-926322-28-9 ; Vol. 2: L-Z., 640 S., Ill., Graph. Darst., Kt., ISBN 978-3-926322-45-6
- Matthias Hardt: The Hannoversche Wendland - a border region in the early and high Middle Ages. In: Contributions to the archeology and history of Northeast Lower Saxony. Berndt Wachter on his 70th birthday. Edited by Wolfgang Jürries. Series of publications of the local history working group Lüchow-Dannenberg. Volume 8. Lüchow 1991, ISBN 3-9802114-5-2 , pp. 155-167.
- Matthias Hardt: Prignitz and Hannoversches Wendland. The principality of the Slavic Linons in the early and high Middle Ages. In: In the service of historical regional studies. Contributions to archeology, medieval research, onomatology and museum work, mainly in Saxony. Festive offer for Gerhard Billig on the occasion of his 75th birthday, offered by students and colleagues. Edited by Rainer Aurig, Reinhardt Butz, Ingolf Gräßler and André Thieme. Beucha 2002, ISBN 3-934544-30-4 , pp. 95-103.
- Udo Krause: The land dictionary - for residents, visitors and businesses. A guide through the Hannoversche Wendland and all neighboring areas. AJB, Lüchow 1995, ISBN 3-928117-04-1 .
- Johann Parum Schultze , Karl Kowalewski (Hrsg.): The Wendland Chronicle of the village mayor Johann Parum Schultze from Süthen, written in the first half of the 18th century. AJB, Lüchow 1991, ISBN 3-928117-02-5 .
- Lüchow-Dannenberg district (ed.): Turning times - turning times . From Lüchow and Dannenberg to Lüchow-Dannenberg. 125 years of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district. Köhring, Lüchow 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-032910-4
items
- Horst Vetten, photos Michael Wolf : Lüchow-Dannenberg district: right behind Gorleben . In: Geo-Magazin. No. 6, 1980, pp. 38-60 (informative experience report)
Web links
- Internet portal of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
- wendland-net
- Museum Association Lüchow-Dannenberg e. V.
- Museum Wustrow
- Church district Lüchow-Dannenberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ Lüchow-Dannenberg district at NLWKN
- ↑ New nature reserves from 2009 at NLWKN
- ^ [1] Nature reserve "Die Lucie", registration number: NSG LÜ 006
- ↑ [2] Nature reserve "Schwarzer Berg bei Krummasel", registration number: NSG LÜ 180
- ↑ Prussian Law Collection 1932
- ^ District regulation for the province of Hanover (1884)
- ^ Law on the integration of the municipality of Sarchem into the town of Hitzacker, July 16, 1957
- ↑ Law on the incorporation of the community of Seelwig into the community of Clenze, December 20, 1960
- ↑ Law on the integration of the municipality of Prisser into the town of Dannenberg (Elbe), January 29, 1971
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the communities in the Lüchow area, June 27, 1972
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of the communities in the Uelzen area and in the area of the city of Münster, May 16, 1972
- ↑ a b c d e Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dannenberg.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1972
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1981
- ↑ a b c d Lower Saxony regional database
- ↑ Local elections 2016 ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ - ( Memento from December 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ - ( Memento from April 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.nls.niedersachsen.de/KW2006/354k.html
- ↑ http://www.nls.niedersachsen.de/KW2006/354k.html
- ↑ Lüchow-Dannenberg voted , Wendland-net, May 25, 2014.
- ^ District Administrator Jürgen Schulz ( Memento of December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district.
- ^ City partnerships of the district - Berlin.de ( Memento from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.akademie-ee.de/akademie-erneuerbare-energien/entstehung-akademie-erneuerbare-energien
- ↑ http://www.strassenbau.niedersachsen.de/portal/live.php?navigation_id=21176&article_id=75973&_psmand=135
- ↑ Federal and State Statistical Offices - Regional Atlas Germany
- ^ Description of the organ summer concerts in Gartow. ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Website of the Museum Association Lüchow-Dannenberg e. V.
- ^ Website of the Westwendischer Kulturverein
- ↑ Damnatz sculpture garden
- ↑ Website of the Wendland Region Tourism Association on the Friedenskirche ( memorial from December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 25, 2013)
- ↑ List of open churches in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district (accessed on December 25, 2013)
- ↑ Website cycling churches
- ^ Website of the Wendland Summer Academy .
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ^ Territorial.de: Lüchow-Dannenberg district