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4 unusual facts about Lüchow-Dannenberg


Langendorf, Lower Saxony

Langendorf is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Neu Darchau

Neu Darchau is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Waddeweitz

Waddeweitz is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony

Woltersdorf is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.


Alexander von Dassel

Alexander von Dassel was born in Lemförde as a son of Alexander von Dassel sen. (12 February 1817 in Lüneburg - 18 Juli 1911 Lüchow

Battle of the Göhrde

The battlefield lies on the border between the modern-day districts of Lüneburg and Lüchow-Dannenberg, between Oldendorf an der Göhrde and Göhrde.

Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Other branches that did not have full sovereignty existed in the Dannenberg, Harburg, Gifhorn, Bevern, Osterode, Herzberg, Salzderhelden and Einbeck.

Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

In a 1992 letter to Canadian humorist John Robert Colombo, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke recounts it thus: While lunching with friends at a restaurant (variously identified as Luchow's or The Algonquin), Hemingway bets the table ten dollars each that he can craft an entire story in six words.

J. G. Westphal

Westphal was born on March 18, 1824 in Colborn near Lüchow.

Julius Ernst, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg

As a result of his alleged same-gender attraction, he died without male issue and so the Dannenberg principality and his share of Hitzacker was inherited by his male partner Augustus.

Karl August Wittfogel

Karl August Wittfogel was born 6 September 1896 at Woltersdorf, in Lüchow, Province of Hanover.

Konrad Dannenberg

Dannenberg retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 and became an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma, Tennessee.

Maujahn Moor

It is located a good two kilometres west of the town of Dannenberg between the villages of Thunpadel and Schmarsau in northeastern Lower Saxony.

Möre

:Then, after the land of the Burgundians, we had on our left the lands that have been called from the earliest times Blekingey, and Meore, and Eowland, and Gotland, all which territory is subject to the Sweons; and Weonodland was all the way on our right, as far as Weissel-mouth.

Polabian language

The language left many traces to this day in toponymy; for example, Wustrow "Place on the island", Lüchow (Polabian: Ljauchüw), Sagard, Gartow etc.

Principality of Lüneburg

In 1592, after the death of Duke William, the territory was enlarged with the Ämter of Hitzacker, Lüchow and Warpke, but Henry's demands for a transfer of sovereignty were not met.

When Duke Henry went against a gentleman's agreement with his brother William and married Ursula of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1569, he had forsake sharing the government of the principality and was compensated instead with the Amt of Dannenberg and the Klosteramt of Scharnebeck.

Wustrow

Wustrow, Lower Saxony, a town in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony


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