Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany, which is usually referred to as Hanoverian Wendland or Wendland. It is bounded by the districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg and the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt.
Lüchow-Dannenberg
The Wendland is a region in Germany on the borders of the present states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Its heart is the Hanoverian Wendland in the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony.
In the north the Wendland is bounded by the flood plain of the Elbe
In the west the partially wooded Drawehn ridge dominates the Hanoverian Wendland; view from the Hoher Mechtin
The Lüchower Landgraben and Grenzgraben depressions separate the Wendland in the south from the Altmark; view over the Flötgraben of Lemgow
View of the rundling village of Satemin, 3 kilometres west of Lüchow