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Where ships are lifted and "white gold" (salt) is extracted by boiling
Lüneburg's museums alone are worth the journey: In the Deutsches Salzmuseum (German Salt Museum) at the Lüneburg salt works, great importance is attached to grasping what it's all about. Here, the "white gold" of the hanseatic city was produced as early as 1276. And when visitors have had enough of Lüneburg's history, they can themselves take a turn at boiling brine.
Or would you like to take in a little more history? The Ostpreußisches Landesmuseum (East Prussian Land Museum), the Brauereimuseum (Brewery Museum), the Fürstentummuseum (Principality Museum) and the Kloster Lüne (Lüneburg Convent) are full of unique treasures and curiosities. You can explore these places either on your own or on guided tours which are arranged for different age groups and on various themes.
Technology fans are well catered for at the Scharnebeck ship lift. Modern cargo ships are raised no less than 38 metres in one of the biggest ship lifts in Europe. And just outside Lüneburg, nature in a multitude of facets awaits your pleasure. Here there is idyllic countryside dissected by the rivers Ilmenau, Luhe and Neetze, a patchwork of meadows, fields and forests, and not least the biosphere nature reserve known as the "Flusslandschaft Elbe" (Elbe Fluvial Landscape).
Youth Hostel Lüneburg
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