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Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

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Hitzacker (Elbe)

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

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Location: Hitzacker (Elbe), Lüchow-Dannenberg, Wendland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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JR56

May 16, 2019

The customs house from 1589 stands in the heart of the town of Hitzacker (Elbe).

Here the customs officer administered the once lucrative Elbe toll for the Celle line of the House of Welf. The customs house is now a museum.

Here you can learn interesting facts about the eventful history of the town surrounded by water and often threatened by the Elbe. In addition to the history of the customs house, the Elbe toll, the history of the robber baron Riebe at the Weinbergburg or everyday urban finds, one embarks on a journey through time to the recent past and can imagine how the topic of borders challenged people here. In addition, shipbuilding, shipping and hydraulic engineering played a central role for centuries.

We also meet the great sons of the city: the book prince, the Welf duke August d. J., who resided here from 1604 to 1634 and the beginnings of his library with the book wheel he developed, the founder of modern geography Bernhard Varenius and Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who was born in Hitzacker as Claus von Amsberg.

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January 8, 2022

the city of Hitzacker is ripe for a film set

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Tom Spandau

January 8, 2019

If you visit Hitzacker you should also visit the old customs house (museum).

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Location: Hitzacker (Elbe), Lüchow-Dannenberg, Wendland, Lower Saxony, Germany

Old Customs House Hitzacker Museum

1. Hitzacker Old Town Island – Wolfsschlucht near Hitzacker loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

2. Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

3. Prinz-Claus-Promenade – Hitzacker Old Town Island loop from Hitzacker (Elbe)

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