The old Harbour.
I met my Hamburg friends at the railway station, and the first thing we decided to do was to find a nice café and have a beer! A very sensible idea, considering how warm the day was. M and J have visited Lüneburg before, so we walked directly to the old Harbour area, and sat under a sunshade, roughly in the middle of the above photo.
Lüneburg, which was hardly damaged in WW2 is one of many cities on the "European Gothic Brick Trail." In the absence of stone for building houses, clay bricks were the only Option apart from timber. Anyone with a real interest in bricks of all colours should visit this wonderful city.
The old crane in the harbour area.
Lüneburg´s wealth was built on salt, (it stands on a salt dome) and there is a Salt Museum in the city, but with limited time we did not manage to visit. Salt was shipped from here on the River Ilmanau, to others towns, and used for the preservation of fish.
Lüneburg´s wealth was built on salt, (it stands on a salt dome) and there is a Salt Museum in the city, but with limited time we did not manage to visit. Salt was shipped from here on the River Ilmanau, to others towns, and used for the preservation of fish.
Houses near the Michaelis church.
It was good to walk the narrow streets of the old town, where my dear friend JS Bach must have walked as a teenager. He attended the school in the cloisters of the Michaelis Church from 1700 to 1703, aged 15 years old.
The link below will give you more Information about the City, although you may have to cut and past the Website address to your seach box. The links used to work automatically, but some don´t seem to anymore.
It was good to walk the narrow streets of the old town, where my dear friend JS Bach must have walked as a teenager. He attended the school in the cloisters of the Michaelis Church from 1700 to 1703, aged 15 years old.
The link below will give you more Information about the City, although you may have to cut and past the Website address to your seach box. The links used to work automatically, but some don´t seem to anymore.
Lüneburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gothic brick houses, for which the city is famous.
The detail of the brickwork was most interesting, with alternating colours and various textures.
The detail of the brickwork was most interesting, with alternating colours and various textures.
The Rathaus
Michaelis Church, where JS Bach sang and was educated from 1700 til 1703
Bach sang in the choir of this brick built church, but when his voice broke, he received his first tuition on the organ here.
Bach sang in the choir of this brick built church, but when his voice broke, he received his first tuition on the organ here.
The organ built in 1705, after Bach's time, in the organ loft.
The 17th century marble pulpit.
The city stands on the edge of Lüneburg Heath, and area of extensive heathland, typical of those that once covered most of the North German countryside until about 1800, but which have almost completely disappeared in other areas.
The heaths were formed after the Neolithic period by the overgrazing of the once widespread forests on the poor sandy soils of the geest, as this slightly hilly and sandy terrain in northern Europe is called, making Lüneburg Heath a historic cultural landscape.
The remaining areas of heath are kept clear mainly through grazing, especially by a North German breed of moorland sheep called the Heidschnucke. The Heath´s unique landscape make it a popular tourist destination in Northern Germany.
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