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Lüneburg, officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is located about southeast of another Hanseatic city, Hamburg, and belongs to that city's wider metropolitan region. The capital of the district which bears its name, it is home to roughly 77,000 people. Lüneburg's urban area, which includes the surrounding communities of Adendorf, Bardowick, Barendorf and Reppenstedt, has a population of around 103,000. Lüneburg has been allowed to use the title ('Hanseatic Town') in its name since 2007, in recognition of its membership in the former Hanseatic League. Lüneburg is also home to Leuphana University. History ImageSize = width:1050 height:100 PlotArea = width:1000 height:50 left:50 bottom:25 DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:950 till:2000 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:100 start:950 Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar PlotData= bar: ...
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Lüneburg Water Tower
Lüneburg Water Tower () is a water tower in the southeastern part of the Lüneburg old town in Lower Saxony, Germany, built by the architect Franz Krüger (architect), Franz Krüger (1873–1936), from designs by Richard Kampf. Its erection was initiated on 3 October 1905, and the tower was taken into use in November 1907. The water tower is tall, and is the tallest building in the Lüneburg old town that is not a church. It stands between the considerably newer Nordlandhalle (which has been demolished meanwhile) and the Johanneum Lüneburg, Johanneum, the latter now used as a school. The tower consists of a square base of and a round portion which is walled up around a large water tank. The upper part is carried by 16 solid columns. The tower was in operation until summer 1986. It was planned to demolish it, but this was cancelled because of too high costs, and later the tower was declared a cultural heritage monument. Starting 1997 it was renovated for the EXPO 2000, and tod ...
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