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Kalkberg Nature Reserve Viewpoint

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Kalkberg Nature Reserve Viewpoint

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Location: Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. Kalkberg Nature Reserve – Stairs to Kalkberg loop from Mittelfeld

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2. Kalkberg Nature Reserve – Lüneburg Old Town loop from Lüneburg

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3. Stairs to Kalkberg – Kalkberg Nature Reserve loop from Mittelfeld

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Siegfried LG

December 29, 2016

The Kalkberg with a height of 56 m is the natural lookout point in Lüneburg par excellence. 10% remained after centuries of gypsum breakdown. The castle was also disposed of in this way.

Today a nature reserve, maintained by the BUND near the old gypsum kiln. The two goats are also part of it. This area wants to be hiked with its steep stairs, some of which are old.

Links for information:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüneburger_Kalkberg

kalkberg-lueneburg.de

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Siegfried LG

September 13, 2017

Until February 1371 there was a castle on the Kalkberg, from which the Principality of Lüneburg-Braunschweig was ruled. As part of the War of the Lüneburg Succession, the lordly castle on the Kalkberg was destroyed, as was the nearby Benedictine monastery of St. Michael, which then moved to the city.

The obelisk halfway up is reminiscent of the garrison church, which was built in 1663 for the ducal troops on the Kalkberg and demolished in 1783 due to its dilapidation.

The cannon on the summit is of more recent origin and was only fired when convicts had escaped from the neighboring penitentiary.

The Lüneburg building officer Eduard Schlöbcke ensured that the rest of the Kalkberg became one of the first nature reserves in Germany in 1932. The former quarry can still be recognized by its steep, steep walls. At the bottom of the Kalkberg there is a small wet biotope with reed areas and swamp areas. The rock walls show only a very sparse vegetation with animals and plants of the dry grass communities. 180 species of flowering plants settled on an area of 3.6 hectares, including some heat, light and lime-loving species that are otherwise only found in southern Central Europe. Some smaller caves are inhabited by bats.

Sources:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüneburger_Kalkberg

kalkberg-lueneburg.de

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JR56

October 11, 2020

The Lüneburg Kalkberg has a long and very interesting history: In the Middle Ages, the Hliuniburg, which once gave the city its name, stood here. Built around the year 956 by Hermann von Billung, the castle later became the property of the Guelphs. After the Lüneburg line of the Guelphs died out, the so-called Lüneburg War of Succession broke out in 1370. After the occupation by Brunswick Duke Magnus Torquatus, it was finally the Lüneburgers themselves who completely destroyed the castle in February 1371 in order to push the Duke back to his residence in Celle. Today visitors can get an impression of the Hliuniburg on the altar panels in the St. Nicolaikirche. Two loot items, an elaborately crafted door and the oldest surviving folding table from 1330 are exhibited in the town hall and in the Lüneburg Museum.

In the same year, on October 21, 1371, Duke Magnus Torquatus and his soldiers overcame the city fortifications in order to bring the rebellious Lüneburgers to reason. But the Lüneburgers could not be duped: They handed the Duke the city key, but only to strike a direct counter blow. While the Duke and his men fought over the wine and beer supplies in Lüneburg, confident of victory, the Lüneburgers armed themselves and recaptured their city at dawn.

Strictly speaking, the Kalkberg should actually be called Gipsberg. Finally, the salt dome stored under Lüneburg brought the valuable building material gypsum to light. Until 1878, the people of Lüneburg diligently mined gypsum here, so that the once 80 m high mountain is now only 1/16 of its original circumference and 58 m. the rest of the Lüneburg mountain to the nature reserve and natural monument. A visit to the Kalkberg is still absolutely worthwhile, because from up here you have a wonderful view of the old town of Lüneburg around the St. Michaelis Church.

lueneburg.info/kalkberg

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Location: Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany

Kalkberg Nature Reserve Viewpoint

1. Kalkberg Nature Reserve – Stairs to Kalkberg loop from Mittelfeld

2. Kalkberg Nature Reserve – Lüneburg Old Town loop from Lüneburg

3. Stairs to Kalkberg – Kalkberg Nature Reserve loop from Mittelfeld

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