LÜNEBURG, GERMANY: Best Day Trip in Northern Germany? Lüneburg Travel Guide | Lüneburg Day Trip

[@jogpoel5391]

Thanks for Sharing :))

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@@jogpoel5391 You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@chuckcooper272]

A bit too short, as Lüneburg has much to offer. In the St. Johns Church Johann Sebastian Bach played on the Organ. The new main building of the University was designed by the famous American Architect, Daniel Liebeskind. Worth the visit.Otherwise alles was presented most interesting...and nice and warn, seeing how it has gotten colder fast.

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We realize we didn’t hit everything, but we got to as much as we could in a day while not rushing around, with a kid too. The weather was also much nicer than it is now too😅

[@christiankastorf4836]

Building the houses over the saline was a silly idea, but people did not know any better. What they did was pumping the salty water up and boiling it till the water had evaporated. At first it was done with wood*, later with fosil fuels. By the early 18-hundreds a church had to be demolished because the ground had sunk so much the spire and vaults cracked and were a danger for the public. More and more houses stood in absurd angles. By the 1950s the situation had become even more serious. Entire streets were put on the waiting list for demolition. Carpenters risked their lives when they cut through roof timbers as the twisted beams jerked back as soon as they were "relieved". Lüneburg was in danger of a complete re-development as a modern city when initiatives started to save what could still be saved and restored. The end for the saline came in the 1970s when oil-prizes had gone up. *Fun fact: the area around the city is called Lunenburg Heath/Lüneburger Heide, because all the trees had been chopped down for firewood. The infertile soil was only good for grazing sheep. Later modern ways of agriculture brought a big change so that today only a small part of the heath with its meagre vegetation is kept under protection. Sheer irony as the heath is the result of an ecological catastrophe.

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@@christiankastorf4836 Fascinating! Thanks for sharing so much more about the history of Lüneburg. It was such an interesting town to visit!

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@@MYTravelBF In the 1970s a TV-series about a fictive 14th/15th century merchant family (so called "Patrizier") in Lübeck was filmed almost entirely in Lüneburg (plus studio for the indor scenes) as that smaller city still had more of its original medieval looks, including the treadmill crane. The iconic "Holstengate" in Lübeck would have spoilt anything by the way as it had not been built in that period.

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3:25 "I don't believe salt put a lot of places on the map." Salzburg, Halle, Hallein, Bad Reichenhall, Salzgitter, Hallstadt, Schwäbisch Hall*: "Are we a joke to you?" 😡🤪 * "hall" meant salt in the Celtic language.

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@@hape3862 Oops! Thank you for the clarification!😅

[@arnodobler1096]

No foam on the beer 😢

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We didn’t pour it😂 It was tasty though!