Travel Guide Lüneburg

Lüneburg is a charming town of 72 000 inhabitants, one of the few in Northern Germany to have been completely spared by the destruction of the last war. Here you will find a superb centre with half-timbered houses, canals and monuments carefully maintained. It is located in the Land of Lower Saxony, and is a decidedly tournée tour of Hamburg. Moreover, it became the weekend paradise for the Hamburg. And for the reason: It is ideal for sightseeing, sightseeing and coffee terraces. In addition, Lüneburg is capital and is the largest historic forest in Germany, the Lüneburger Heide.You will go to Lüneburg as much for a visit to the Prisée's "city-museum" as to undertake excursions in the Heide. The city deserves a stay if you make this last choice; if one is satisfied with an urban visit, half a day will suffice - it is quite out of the tourist entertainment.HistoryA major Hanseatic city, Lüneburg was the city of brick and salt (hence the colours of the city, red and white), which the industry only undermined in 1980. It was one of the two poles of a powerful medieval German state, the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and was even briefly the capital of an independent state, the Principality of Lüneburg. In the th century, the city's bourgeois bourgeois rebelled against the prince, the expelled and destroyed the castle; in 1392, they obtained a free city status, freeing their trade in feudal taxes. This status continued until the horrors of the Thirty-Year War, in 1627. Apart from the road axes of modern Europe, Lüneburg has not experienced vertigineuse industrialization - for the sake of the visitor.