Lüneburg (district)
The district of Lüneburg is a district in the north- east of Lower Saxony. It is bordered to the west by the district of Harburg, on the north by the Schleswig-Holstein Duchy of Lauenburg, and the north and east by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim and on the south by the counties Lüchow- Dannenberg, Uelzen and Heidekreis. The county is part of the Regional Association of the same name and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.
- 3.1 Constituencies
- 3.2 District Administrators
- 3.3 Oberkreisdirektor Directors
- 3.4 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 traffic
Geography
The district of Lüneburg is located south of Hamburg, between the river Elbe and Lüneburg Heath. It is drained by the Elbe - it separates the Amt Neuhaus and parts Bleckedes from the rest of the district.
History
Office and District
The Office Lüneburg was born 1862. At this time the Office Luna moved his official residence from Lüne monastery in the former Lüneburg Knight Academy. Hereby also the official name was changed. As of 1867, the offices of Lüneburg, Lüneburg Bleckede and the city were named members of the district of Lüneburg, and control circuit, which was exclusively responsible for taxes and military.
County
On April 1, 1885 from the Office of Lüneburg - ie without the city of Lüneburg and the Office Bleckede - the district of Lüneburg.
1929 Gutsbezirk from the district Uelzen it was slammed. On 1 October 1932, the territory of the dissolved district Bleckede was annexed to the district of Lüneburg.
1942, the municipalities Oldershausen and Wittorf came from the district of Harburg district. 1943, the municipalities Hagen, Luna and Ochtmissen were incorporated from the district in the urban district of Lüneburg. In 1969, founded the Municipality Bardowick to forestall impending incorporations in the town of Lüneburg. As part of the now upcoming fourth Lower Saxony district reform on March 1, 1974, some communities were due to various territorial changes off and incorporated, as was for example the city to the county. By dividing the occupation zones after the war, on the right bank Amt Neuhaus plus rechtselbischen Districts Bleckedes as an official was in a circle Hagenow become part of the territory of the GDR. On 30 June 1993, it came to a referendum back to the Lower Saxony district.
The county is one of the core areas of monuments and sites from prehistoric times. Ernst Sprockhoff listed 17 turbines west and 32 km east of Ilmenau. The investments of the necropolis of Soderstorf and Totenstatt at Oldendorf stand out among them.
Policy
Constituencies
The district of Lüneburg is part of the parliamentary constituency 38 Lüchow -Dannenberg - Lüneburg. The Diet Constituency 49 Lüneburg includes the city of Lüneburg, Adendorf community and the joint communities Amelinghausen, Bardowick and Gellersen. The city Bleckede, the municipality Amt Neuhaus and the joint communities Dahl Castle, Ilmenau, Ostheide and Scharnebeck belong to the state election district 48 Elbe.
District administrators
Senior district directors
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was the district of Lüneburg in 1927 awarded by the Prussian State Ministry and is one of the earliest German county coat of arms. Finally, the district of Lüneburg has been the first among all Hanoverian, even Prussian counties, has taken the opportunity to apply their own coat of arms and gain. In addition, a model for the design of the county coat of arms of the neighboring districts of Harburg, Celle, Dannenberg, Gifhorn, Soltau and Uelzen the crest is apparently been, who also assumed the blue or Welf lion in subsequent years. Reproduced also are the heart in accordance with the Danish royal coat of arms as a result of the marriage of Duke William of Lüneburg with the Danish actress Helene. The design and the design will go back to the Berlin painter Gustav Adolf Closs.
Economy and infrastructure
The Municipal Hospital of Lüneburg is part of the same heath hospital network, which includes several hospitals in the southern outskirts of Hamburg.
For the maintenance of cultural institutions of Lüneburgische Regional Association was founded as a registered association.
Traffic
For inland waterways, the Elbe and the Elbe Lateral Canal is significant. By the district run several federal highways and the Federal Highway 39 from Lüneburg to Hamburg (formerly A250 ). The combination of Amt Neuhaus across the river Elbe to the rest of the district is guaranteed by the ferries between New Tanja Darchau and Darchau and Amt Neuhaus between Bleckede and New Bleckede.
The railway lines from Hamburg to Hannover, running from Lüneburg to Lübeck and from Lüneburg to Dannenberg by the district area. Lüneburg has intercity connection by the IC line Karlsruhe - Frankfurt - Kassel - Hannover - Hamburg - Stralsund and other individual ICs. Also, keep isolated Intercity Express ( ICE) to and from Basel, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart.
On lines of Osthannoverschen Railways ( OHE ) from Lüneburg to Bleckede and to Soltau no regular passenger longer takes place.
Bus transport is largely in the hands of Stade CCG (CCG ) and the OHE subsidiary transport companies Osthannover ( VOG). In the 1990s, a rapid bus was introduced on major routes, the Lüneburg directly and partly by the hour with surrounding properties centers more ( Bleckede, Dahl Castle, Amelinghausen, salt Hausen ). Frequent connections exist in the suburbs of Lüneburg ( Bardo Wick, Adendorf, German evern, Reppenstedt ). Retrieval and school bus lines bind to smaller places.
All transport lines belonging to the Hamburg Transport Association ( HVV).
Cities and Towns
In brackets the number of inhabitants on 31 December 2012.
Unit communities
Joint communities with their member communities
* = Seat of the velvet municipality administration
- 2 Samtgemeinde Bardowick ( 16,812 )
- 3 Samtgemeinde Dahl Castle ( 6072 )
- 4 Samtgemeinde Gellersen ( 12,864 )
- 5 Samtgemeinde Ilmenau ( 10,519 )
- 6 Samtgemeinde Ostheide ( 10,282 )
- 7 Samtgemeinde Scharnebeck ( 15,070 )
Others
The district of Lüneburg is located in three different area codes. The majority of the county has numbers in the range 4 (Hamburg). The South East is, however, in the range 5 (Hannover) and the acceding territory belonging east of the Elbe areas in region 3 (Berlin).