Luckau (Wendland) is a village or ''

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'' (

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) in the south of the '' Kreis'' (local government district) of Lüchow-Dannenberg in

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, where it forms part of the ''

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'' (joint municipal association) of

Lüchow (Wendland) Lüchow (Wendland) () is a city in northeastern Lower Saxony, in Germany. It is the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Lüchow (Wendland), and is the capital of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg. Situated approximately 13&nbs ...

. The village lies some eight kilometres southwest of

Lüchow Lüchow (Wendland) () is a city in northeastern Lower Saxony, in Germany. It is the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Lüchow (Wendland), and is the capital of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg. Situated approximately 13&nbs ...

itself, the administrative centre of both the ''Kreis'' and the ''Samtgemeinde''. The southern border of the municipality coincides with that between the German federal states of

and

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. Situated in the region known as the

Wendland The Wendland is a region in Germany on the borders of the present states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Its heart is the Hanoverian Wendland in the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony. In 2 ...

, Luckau is one of the ''

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s'' (villages arranged in a circle around a

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) that are characteristic of the area. The name Luckau comes from the Slavic ''lauck'', signifying a leek- or onion-field.

Parishes included in the municipality

*Bülitz *Köhlen *Mammoißel *: This hamlet is one of the best-preserved Wendland ''rundlings''. Worth seeing is a four-post Low German "hall house" dating from 1777, which displays a diagonal pattern of tiling and half-timbers. The placename stems from the Slavic and means ''Seat of the Malomysl''. Around 40 people live here. *Nauden *Püggen *Steine *Zargleben *Zeetze

References

Lüchow-Dannenberg {{LüchowDannenberg-geo-stub