Lüneburg (district)

Ostheide is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Lüneburg. Its seat is in the village Barendorf.

Barendorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Barendorf has an area of 9.24 km² and a population of 2,344 (as of December 31, 2007).

The Scharnebeck twin ship lift is a 38-metre (125 ft) boat lift in Scharnebeck, northeast of Lüneburg, in the District of Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on the Elbe Lateral Canal, which connects the Elbe (northern and lower endpoint, at Artlenburg) and the Mittellandkanal (southern and upper endpoint, near Wolfsburg), and is one of two constructions on the canal that overcomes the height difference between the canal endpoints, the other being a 23-metre (75 ft) lock further south at Uelzen. The Scharnebeck twin ship lift was built in 1974 (1974) and was at that time the largest ship lift in the world. The first ship passed through the lift on 5 December 1975. There is a museum at the site.

Wendisch Evern is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Rullstorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Scharnebeck is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the village Scharnebeck.

Scharnebeck is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Lüneburg. The Scharnebeck twin ship lift on the Elbe Lateral Canal is in the municipality. Scharnebeck is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Scharnebeck.

Adendorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Vastorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Reinstorf is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Echem is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Echem has an area of 10.72 km² and a population of 1,021 (as of December 31, 2007).

Lüne Abbey (German: Kloster Lüne) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover (Hanover Monastic Chamber). The current abbess is Reinhild Freifrau von der Goltz.Founded in 1172, the convent soon established itself as a wealthy and autonomous local power in the Lüneburg Heath region. It recruited its nuns mostly from the influential patrician families of Lüneburg and accommodated up to 60 women over most of its existence. These women would be thoroughly educated in Latin, Liberal Arts and in Christian doctrine and liturgy. Over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries, the convent structure changed first through the monastic reform (1481), then through the Protestant Reformation but was never resolved.