Lüneburg - City of Salt

The former salting and hanseatic city Lüneburg is for the first time mentioned in 956 in connection with the saltworks. It is located on the edge of the “Lüneburger Heath” between Hamburg and Hannover. Splendid gables show the former fortune of the city at times of the Hanseatic League and emboss whole street traits.

Especially impressive are the commercial centre "Am Sande" and the St. Johannes Church with its 108 meter brick tower. It is the oldest of the three maintained medieval churches of Lüneburg. Especially worth seeing is the city hall, one of the biggest maintained medieval city halls of Germany. As a city with a young university Lüneburg has approx. 69.000 inhabitants.

To go shopping and a cultural excursion are easily combined in Lüneburg. Everywhere in historical vaults, medieval breweries or the old port, restaurants, beer gardens and street cafés invite you to stay. Salt, "white gold“, made Lüneburg into a rich and powerful city in the middle ages. Find out how it was found and extracted on the "Salted Day" and how important it is to Lüneburg even today. The saltworks, with an output of 20,000 tons of salt a year, supplied half of Europe.

SaLü – Lüneburg salt thermal baths

Warm salt water at up to 36 degrees or relaxing saunas. This is the way to destress, enjoy some peace and quiet and recharge your batteries – really taking it easy! From wood-fired or eucalyptus sauna to steam bath, there are a whole range of ways to sweat it all out waiting for you at the SaLü Lüneburg salt thermal baths.

Health-conscious visitors can receive out-patient treatment at the health spa or enjoy skin, breathing, back or joint treatments. The kids can splash, slide, rollick about and play to their heart's content in the Kinderbadeland children's water world. Every day's a holiday at the SaLü Lüneburg salt thermal baths!

• http://www.salue-lueneburg.de (German)

The German Salt Museum

Salt is white, salt makes you thirsty, salt is odourless, salt is cheap, salt is an innocuous white grain. But this little grain plays a very important role in the North German salt capital, Luneburg. For more than 1000 years salt has determined the history of the city and made it powerful and wealthy. It was not until 1980 that the Luneburg Saline saltworks finally closed its gates.

Today, the former saltworks houses the German salt museum. The museum brings Luneburg's history and its significance as a salt town to life - a plethora of professions concerned themselves with the production of salt from the brine, of which the most powerful were the so-called "Sülfmeisters". They owned the rights to and the salt pans necessary for salt production and were appointed annually. With the "Sülfmeister“ days, the whole town commemorates the significance of "white gold".

• http://www.salzmuseum.de (German)

Highlights

• Costume guided tours
• Old craftmen’s market and traditional festivals
• Salt makers in the salt museum
• Visit North Germany’s only brewery museum
• Water tower: panoramic view over Lüneburg (56 metre)
• Boat lift in Scharnebeck
• Cycle tours
• Historical Christmas market

360° panoramas: experience Lüneburg interactively!

Lüneburg - a town that has a great deal to offer. Take a moment to make an interactive visit to one of the following sights: Pedestrian Area I, Pedestrian Area II, Park, St. Michaelis, St. Michaelis - Ausblick, St. Nicolai, Theater, Wasserviertel.

• 360°-Panorama

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