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Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide) is a large area of heath, geest, and woodland in the northeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany.^[1]

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African stonechat

The African stonechat or common stonechat (Saxicola torquatus) is a species of the Old World flycatcher family (Muscicapidae), inhabiting sub-Saharan Africa and adjacent regions.

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Ahlden House

Ahlden House (Schloss Ahlden) is a stately home at Ahlden on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Aller (Germany)

The Aller is a river in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony in Germany.

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The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Amelinghausen

Amelinghausen is a municipality in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Arctic wolf

The Arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos), also known as the white wolf, polar wolf, and the Arctic grey wolf, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to the High Arctic tundra of Canada's Queen Elizabeth Islands, from Melville Island to Ellesmere Island.

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Aue (Elbe)

The Aue is a river in northern Germany in the district of Stade in Lower Saxony.

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Auf der Lüneburger Heide

The song Auf der Lüneburger Heide ("On the Lüneburg Heath") was composed in 1912 by Ludwig Rahlfs based on a poem from the collection Der kleine Rosengarten ("The Little Rose Garden") by Hermann Löns.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (German plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Örtze

Örtze is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Bad Fallingbostel

Bad Fallingbostel (Northern Low Saxon: Bad Fambossel) is the district town (Kreisstadt) of the Heidekreis district in the German state of Lower Saxony. Lüneburg Heath and Bad Fallingbostel are Heidmark.

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Böhme (river)

The Böhme is a right-bank, northeastern tributary of the Aller in the district of Soltau-Fallingbostel in the north German state of Lower Saxony. Lüneburg Heath and Böhme (river) are Heidmark.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Beekeeping

Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in artificial beehives.

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Bergen, Lower Saxony

Bergen (Eastphalian: Bargen) is a town in the north of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Lüneburg Heath and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are Heidmark.

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Bergen-Hohne Training Area

The Bergen-Hohne Training Area (German: NATO-Truppenübungsplatz Bergen or Schießplatz Bergen-Hohne) is a NATO military training area in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Bergen-Hohne Training Area are Heidmark.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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Betula pendula

Betula pendula, commonly known as silver birch, warty birch, European white birch, or East Asian white birch, is a species of tree in the family Betulaceae, native to Europe and parts of Asia, though in southern Europe, it is only found at higher altitudes.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Bispingen

Bispingen is a municipality in the Heidekreis district of Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Bispingen are Heidmark.

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Black grouse

The black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix), also known as northern black grouse, Eurasian black grouse, blackgame or blackcock, is a large game bird in the grouse family.

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Black stork

The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

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Blueberry

Blueberry is a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plant with blue or purple berries.

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Bog

A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

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Bothel, Lower Saxony

Bothel is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, Germany in the Stade Geest region of central Lower Saxony.

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Braunschweig

Braunschweig or Brunswick (from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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Bremen

Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.

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British Army of the Rhine

British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) was the name given to two British Army formations of the same name.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Brown bear

The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.

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Brunsberg (Harburg)

The Brunsberg is a high hill on the northwestern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany.

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Brunswick–Uelzen railway

The Brunswick–Uelzen railway line is a largely, single-tracked, non-electrified branch line in the north German state of Lower Saxony.

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Buchholz in der Nordheide

Buchholz in der Nordheide (Northern Low Saxon: Bookholt) is the largest town in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Bullenkuhle

The Bullenkuhle is a predominantly marshy lake in the extreme north of the district of Gifhorn in the north German state of Lower Saxony.

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Bundesautobahn 250

was an autobahn in north Germany, which was colloquially referred to as the Maschener Autobahn ("Maschen Motorway").

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Bundesautobahn 27

branches off the A 7 at Autobahndreieck Walsrode to the northwest, crossing A 1 at the Bremer Kreuz and continuing eastwards of Bremen, toward Cuxhaven.

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Bundesautobahn 7

is the longest German Autobahn and the longest national motorway in Europe at 963 km (598 mi).

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Bundesstraße 3

The Bundesstraße 3 (abbr. B3) is one of the longest federal highways in Germany.

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Bundesstraße 440

The B 440 is a German federal road in Lower Saxony.

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Bundesstraße 71

The Bundesstraße 71 (abbr: B 71) is one of the longer German federal roads numbered in the 60s and 70s series.

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Calluna

Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carex pilulifera

Carex pilulifera, the pill sedge, is a European species of sedge found in acid heaths, woods and grassland from Macaronesia to Scandinavia.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß; Carolus Fridericus Gauss; 30 April 177723 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science.

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Celle

Celle is a town and capital of the district of Celle in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany.

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Celle (district)

Celle is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Center Parcs Europe

Center Parcs Europe N.V. (formerly Center Parcs) is a European network of holiday villages that was founded in the Netherlands in 1968, and is currently operated by Pierre & Vacances.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Central Uplands

The Central UplandsDickinson (1964), p.18 ff. Lüneburg Heath and Central Uplands are natural regions of Germany.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.

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Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist.

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Christianization

Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity.

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Cladonia

Cladonia is a genus of moss-like lichens in the family Cladoniaceae.

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Common land

Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Common quail

The common quail (Coturnix coturnix), or European quail, is a small ground-nesting game bird in the pheasant family Phasianidae.

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Convent

A convent is a community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.

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Cultural landscape

Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment. Lüneburg Heath and Cultural landscape are cultural landscapes.

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Danthonia decumbens

Danthonia decumbens (formerly Sieglingia decumbens) is a species of grass commonly known as the heath grass, heath-grass, or staggers grass It is a tussock grass native to Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and North Africa.

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Dat ole Huus

Dat ole Huus Heath Museum is a local history museum in Wilsede in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Deschampsia flexuosa

Deschampsia flexuosa, commonly known as wavy hair-grass, is a species of bunchgrass in the grass family widely distributed in Eurasia, Africa, South America, and North America.

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Districts of Germany

In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a Gemeinde (municipality) is the Landkreis or Kreis.

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Drawehn

The Drawehn is a partly wooded and partly agricultural region of hills in the northeastern part of the German state of Lower Saxony, lying between the districts of Lüneburg and Uelzen in the west and Lüchow-Dannenberg in the east. Lüneburg Heath and Drawehn are forests and woodlands of Lower Saxony and regions of Lower Saxony.

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Duchy of Saxony

The Duchy of Saxony (Hartogdom Sassen, Herzogtum Sachsen) was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804.

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Ebstorf Abbey

Ebstorf Abbey (Abtei Ebstorf or Kloster Ebstorf) is a Lutheran convent of nuns that is located near the Lower Saxon town of Uelzen, in Germany.

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Ecological succession

Ecological succession is the process of change in the species that make up an ecological community over time.

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Egestorf

Egestorf is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Elbe

The Elbe (Labe; Ilv or Elv; Upper and Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

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Elbe Valley

The Elbe Valley (Elbtal or Elbetal) is most often used as a term for that section of the river valley in which most of the quarters of Dresden are located.

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Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park

The Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park (Naturpark Elbhöhen-Wendland), formerly known as the Elbufer-Drawehn Nature Park (Naturpark Elbufer-Drawehn) is a German nature park east of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony.

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End of World War II in Europe

The final battles of the European theatre of World War II continued after the definitive surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies, signed by Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel on 8 May 1945 (VE Day) in Karlshorst, Berlin.

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Erica tetralix

Erica tetralix, the cross-leaved heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to western Europe.

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Erosion

Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.

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Eschede

Eschede is a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Eurasian curlew

The Eurasian curlew or common curlew (Numenius arquata) is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae.

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European bison

The European bison (bison) (Bison bonasus) or the European wood bison, also known as the wisent, the zubr, or sometimes colloquially as the European buffalo, is a European species of bison.

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European green woodpecker

The European green woodpecker (Picus viridis), also known as the yaffle and sometimes called a nickle, is a large green woodpecker with a bright red crown and a black moustache.

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Expressionism

Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century.

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Falkenberg (Lüneburg Heath)

The Falkenberg lies in the northwestern part of the district of Celle in northern Germany.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) is the German government's scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Field marshal

Field marshal (or field-marshal, abbreviated as FM) is the second most senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks, but junior to the rank of Generalissimo.

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Fintel

Fintel is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany and has about 3,000 inhabitants.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Francia

The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

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Göhrde

Göhrde is a municipality in the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Geest

Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gesamtkunstwerk

A Gesamtkunstwerk (literally 'total artwork', translated as 'total work of art', 'ideal work of art', 'universal artwork', 'synthesis of the arts', 'comprehensive artwork', or 'all-embracing art form') is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.

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Gifhorn

Gifhorn is a town and capital of the district of Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Gifhorn (district)

Gifhorn is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Great grey shrike

The great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor) is a large and predatory songbird species in the shrike family (Laniidae).

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Grindau

The Grindau is an right-hand tributary of the River Leine in Lower Saxony (Germany).

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Grundloses Moor

The Grundloses Moor (literally: "Bottomless Bog") is the largest, virtually intact raised bog in the district of Heidekreis and a nature reserve in Walsrode in the German state of Lower Saxony. Lüneburg Heath and Grundloses Moor are Heidmark.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Hanover

Hanover (Hannover; Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Hanover–Hamburg railway

The Hanover–Hamburg railway is one of the most important railway lines in Lower Saxony and Germany.

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Harburg (district)

District Harburg is a district (Landkreis) in Hamburg and Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Harburg (quarter)

Harburg is a quarter (Stadtteil) in the Harburg borough (Bezirk) of Hamburg, Germany.

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Harburg Hills

The Harburg Hills (German: Harburger Berge) are a low ridge in the northeastern part of the German state of Lower Saxony and the southern part of the city state of Hamburg.

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Hardpan

In soil science, agriculture and gardening, hardpan or soil pan is a dense layer of soil, usually found below the uppermost topsoil layer.

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Haußelberg

The Haußelberg is a hill, above NN, in the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle.

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Hazel

Hazels are plants of the genus Corylus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Lüneburg Heath and heath are cultural landscapes.

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Heath Railway

The Heath Railway (German: Heidebahn) is a regional railway line in North Germany that crosses the Lüneburg Heath from which it derives its name. Lüneburg Heath and Heath Railway are Heidmark.

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Heide Express

The Heide Express (literally: "Heath Express") is the name used by the Lüneburg Transport Society (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg) or AVL to market special railway trips with their historic trains on the East Hanoverian Railways (OHE) railway network in northern Germany.

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Heide Park

Heide Park Resort, commonly known as Heide Park, is a theme park in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Heidekreis

Heidekreis ("Heath district") is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Heidschnucke

The Heidschnucke is a group of three types of moorland sheep from northern Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Heidschnucke are Heidmark.

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Heimatfilm

(German for "homeland-films"; German singular) were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

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Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.

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Hermann Löns

Hermann Löns (29 August 1866 – 26 September 1914) was a German journalist and writer.

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Hermannsburg

Hermannsburg is a village and a former municipality in the Celle district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Hinterland

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).

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Hoher Mechtin

At a height of (466 feet) the Hoher Mechtin is the highest elevation in the Wendland in the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg in northern Germany, and is at the same time a significant high point on the entire North German Plain.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ilmenau (river)

Ilmenau is a river south of Hamburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Isenhagen Abbey

Isenhagen Abbey (Kloster Isenhagen) is a convent in Hankensbüttel in the district of Gifhorn in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Jesteburg

Jesteburg is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Juniperus communis

Juniperus communis, the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover (Königreich Hannover) was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Kirchlinteln

Kirchlinteln is a municipality in the district of Verden, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Kunststätte Bossard

Kunststätte Bossard is an expressionist Gesamtkunstwerk, sometimes also referred to as a visionary environment, located in the town of Jesteburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Lachte

The Lachte is a right-hand tributary of the Aller in the Südheide Nature Park in the north German state of Lower Saxony.

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Lüchow-Dannenberg

Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany, which is usually referred to as Hanoverian Wendland (Hannoversches Wendland) or Wendland.

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Lüne Abbey

Lüne Monastery (Kloster Lüne) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg.

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Lüneburg

Lüneburg (Lümborg; Luneburgum or Lunaburgum; Luneburc; Hliuni; Glain), officially the Hanseatic City of Lüneburg (Hansestadt Lüneburg) and also known in English as Lunenburg, is a town in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Lüneburg (district)

Lüneburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Lüneburg Heath Nature Park

Lüneburg Heath Nature Park (German: Naturpark Lüneburger Heide) is a nature park, a form of protected environment, located in the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Lüneburg Heath Nature Park are cultural landscapes of Germany.

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Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve

The Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve (German: Naturschutzgebiet Lüneburger Heide) is one of the oldest and largest nature reserves (Naturschutzgebiete or NSGs) in Germany, and the oldest and largest in Lower Saxony.

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Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park

The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park (Wildpark Lüneburger Heide) is a wildlife park near Nindorf in the municipality of Hanstedt in the north German state of Lower Saxony. Lüneburg Heath and Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park are geography of Lower Saxony.

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Linteln Geest

The Linteln Geest (German: Lintelner Geest or Lint(e)ler Geest), shown on some maps as the Verden Heath, (German: Verdener Heide) is a geest region in the north German state of Lower Saxony and belongs administratively to the borough of Kirchlinteln. Lüneburg Heath and Linteln Geest are natural regions of Germany and regions of Lower Saxony.

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List of glacial moraines

This a partial list of glacial moraines.

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List of monocotyledons of Great Britain and Ireland

This page's list covers the monocotyledon plants found in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Lombards

The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.

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Low German

Low German is a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands.

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Low German house

The Low German house or Fachhallenhaus is a type of timber-framed farmhouse found in northern Germany and the easternmost Netherlands, which combines living quarters, byre and barn under one roof.

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Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state in northwestern Germany.

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Luhe (Ilmenau)

The Luhe is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Lutter (Lachte)

Lutter is a small river in the Lüneburg Heath, Lower Saxony, Germany, right tributary of the Lachte.

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Luzula campestris

Luzula campestris, commonly known as field wood-rush or Good Friday grass is a flowering plant in the rush family Juncaceae.

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Marchantiophyta

The Marchantiophyta are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts.

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Münster

Münster (Mönster) is an independent city (Kreisfreie Stadt) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Mecklenburg

Mecklenburg (Mękel(n)borg) is a historical region in northern Germany comprising the western and larger part of the federal-state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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Medingen (Bad Bevensen)

Medingen is a village in the borough of Bad Bevensen in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Meiße

Meiße is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany that flows through part of the Lüneburg Heath.

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Meinersen

Meinersen is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Mesolithic

The Mesolithic (Greek: μέσος, mesos 'middle' + λίθος, lithos 'stone') or Middle Stone Age is the Old World archaeological period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

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Michel Ange Bernard Mangourit

Michel Ange Bernard de Mangourit (21 August 1752, Rennes – 17 February 1829) was a French diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1796 to 1800, during the Quasi-War.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Migration Period

The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.

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Military training area

A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat.

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Molinia caerulea

Molinia caerulea, known by the common name purple moor-grass, is a species of grass that is native to Europe, west Asia, and north Africa.

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Moose

The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.

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Moraine

A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Munster Training Area

The Munster Training Area (German: Truppenübungsplatz Munster) is a military training area in Germany on the Lüneburg Heath.

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Munster, Lower Saxony

Munster (West Low German: Munste), also called Munster (Örtze) or formerly Munsterlager, is a small town in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany almost equidistant from Hamburg and Hanover.

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Nardus

Nardus is a genus of plants belonging to the grass family, containing the single species Nardus stricta, known as matgrass.

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National park

A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.

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Natural landscape

A natural landscape is the original landscape that exists before it is acted upon by human culture.

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Natural region

A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit.

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Nature reserve

A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, funga, or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for purposes of conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.

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Naturschutzgebiet

A Naturschutzgebiet (abbreviated NSG) is a category of protected area (nature reserve) within Germany's Federal Nature Conservation Act (the Bundesnaturschutzgesetz or BNatSchG).

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Neudorf-Platendorf

Neudorf-Platendorf is a village in the municipality of Sassenburg in Gifhorn district in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Nightjar

Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae and order Caprimulgiformes, characterised by long wings, short legs, and very short bills.

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Normalnull

Normalnull ("standard zero") or Normal-Null (short N. N. or NN) is an outdated official vertical datum used in Germany.

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North European Plain

The North European Plain (Norddeutsches Tiefland – North German Plain; Mitteleuropäische Tiefebene; Nizina Środkowoeuropejska – Central European Plain; Nordeuropæiske Lavland and Noord-Europese Laagvlakte; French: Plaine d'Europe du Nord) is a geomorphological region in Europe that covers all or parts of Belgium, the Netherlands (i.e.

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North German Plain

The North German Plain or Northern Lowland (Norddeutsches Tiefland) is one of the major geographical regions of Germany. Lüneburg Heath and North German Plain are natural regions of Germany.

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Northern Germany

Northern Germany (Norddeutschland) is a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural and historic region in the northern part of Germany which includes the coastal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen.

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Northern Low Saxon

Northern Low Saxon (in Standard High German: Nordniedersächsisch, also Nordniederdeutsch, lit. North(ern) Low Saxon/German; in Standard Dutch: Noord-Nedersaksisch) is a subgroup of Low Saxon dialects of Low German.

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Northern wheatear

The northern wheatear or wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.

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Oldendorfer Totenstatt

The Oldendorfer Totenstatt is a group of six burial mounds and megalith sites in Oldendorf north of Amelinghausen in the valley of the River Luhe in Lüneburg district in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Osterheide

Osterheide is an unincorporated area in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Osterheide are geography of Lower Saxony and Heidmark.

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Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen

The Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) is a Celle based transportation company with railway network in North-eastern Lower Saxony around the Lüneburg Heath area of over 250 km.

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Ostheide

Ostheide is a Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Lüneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Outwash plain

An outwash plain, also called a sandur (plural: sandurs), sandr or sandar, is a plain formed of glaciofluvial deposits due to meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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Palynology

Palynology is the study of microorganisms and microscopic fragments of mega-organisms that are composed of acid-resistant organic material and occur in sediments, sedimentary rocks, and even some metasedimentary rocks.

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Pastor

A pastor (abbreviated to "Pr" or "Ptr" (both singular), or "Ps" (plural)) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation.

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PH

In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").

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Philippi Horticultural

The Philippi Horticultural area is a large semi-rural area of Philippi on the Cape Flats region of Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Pietzmoor

The Pietzmoor (literally "Pietz Bog") is a bog southeast of the town of Schneverdingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Pilosella officinarum

Pilosella officinarum (synonym Hieracium pilosella), known as mouse-ear hawkweed, is a yellow-flowered species of flowering plant in the daisy family Compositae (.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Plaggen soil

Plaggen soil or plaggic anthrosol is a type of soil created in parts of northwest Europe in the Middle Ages, as a result of so-called "plaggen" agriculture on marginal podzol soils.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Podsolisation

Podsolisation is an extreme form of leaching which causes the eluviation of iron and aluminium sesquioxides.

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Polytrichaceae

Polytrichaceae is a common family of mosses.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.

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Quercus petraea

Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, Cornish oak, Irish Oak or durmast oak, is a species of oak tree native to most of Europe and into Anatolia and Iran.

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Red-backed shrike

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family, Laniidae.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Reinsehlen Camp

Reinsehlen Camp (Camp Reinsehlen) is a largely treeless area of around 100 hectares (250 acres) close to the village of Reinsehlen near the town of Schneverdingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Reinsehlen Camp are Heidmark.

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Rischmannshof Heath Museum

The Rischmannshof Heath Museum (German: Heidemuseum Rischmannshof) is an open-air museum in Walsrode, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Rischmannshof Heath Museum are Heidmark.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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Rotenburg (district)

Rotenburg is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Rotenburg an der Wümme

Rotenburg an der Wümme (also known as Rotenburg (Wümme); Rotenburg in Hannover until May 1969; Northern Low Saxon: Rodenborg) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Saale glaciation

The Saale glaciation or Saale Glaciation, sometimes referred to as the Saalian glaciation, Saale cold period (Saale-Kaltzeit), Saale complex (Saale-Komplex) or Saale glacial stage (called the Wolstonian Stage in Britain), covers the middle of the three large glaciations in Northern Europe and the northern parts of Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Western Europe by the Scandinavian Inland Ice Sheet.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Salt evaporation pond

A salt evaporation pond is a shallow artificial salt pan designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines.

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Sander

A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper.

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Sassenburg-Stüde

Stüde is a village in the municipality of Sassenburg in Gifhorn district in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Südheide Nature Park

The Südheide Nature Park ("Southern Heath Nature Park", German: Naturpark Südheide) is a large protected area of forest and heathland in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany.

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Schaalsee

Schaalsee is a lake in Germany.

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Scheeßel

Scheeßel (Northern Low Saxon: Scheeßl) is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Schneverdingen

Schneverdingen (Low Saxon Snevern) is a city in the northern part of the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Scirpus

Scirpus is a genus of grass-like species in the sedge family Cyperaceae many with the common names club-rush, wood club-rush or bulrush.

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Sediment

Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.

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Seeve

Seeve is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany, a tributary of the Elbe.

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Serengeti Park

The Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen, Lower Saxony, is a zoo and leisure park in North Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Serengeti Park are Heidmark.

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Sieben Steinhäuser

The Sieben Steinhäuser is a group of five dolmens on the Lüneburg Heath in the NATO training area of Bergen-Hohne, in the state of Lower Saxony in northern Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Sieben Steinhäuser are Heidmark.

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Silvopasture

Silvopasture (silva is forest in Latin) is the practice of integrating trees, forage, and the grazing of domesticated animals in a mutually beneficial way.

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Sinkhole

A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.

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Snow Dome, Bispingen

The Snow Dome is an indoor ski slope at Bispingen in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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Snow leopard

The snow leopard (Panthera uncia), occasionally called ounce, is a species of large cat in the genus Panthera of the family Felidae.

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Soil retrogression and degradation

Soil retrogression and degradation are two regressive evolution processes associated with the loss of equilibrium of a stable soil.

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Solifluction

Solifluction is a collective name for gradual processes in which a mass moves down a slope ("mass wasting") related to freeze-thaw activity.

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Soltau

Soltau is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Soltau are Heidmark.

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Soltau-Lüneburg Training Area

The Soltau-Lüneburg Training Area (SLTA) was a British and Canadian military training area in North Germany from 1963 to 1994.

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Sprakensehl

Sprakensehl is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Sprötze

The former independent municipality of Sprötze in the north German state of Lower Saxony was merged in 1972 with another five villages into the town of Buchholz in der Nordheide.

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Stade Geest

The Stade Geest (German: Stader Geest; Northern Low Saxon: Stoder Geest) is a natural region of low, sandy heath (geest) in the North German Plain. Lüneburg Heath and Stade Geest are north German Plain and regions of Lower Saxony.

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Swamp

A swamp is a forested wetland.

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Terminal moraine

A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance.

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The Heath Is Green (1932 film)

The Heath Is Green (Grün ist die Heide) is a 1932 German musical film directed by Hans Behrendt and starring Camilla Spira, Peter Voß and Theodor Loos.

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The Heath Is Green (1951 film)

The Heath Is Green (Grün ist die Heide) is a 1951 West German drama film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Sonja Ziemann, Rudolf Prack, and Maria Holst.

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The Heath Is Green (1972 film)

The Heath is Green (Grün ist die Heide) is a 1972 German drama film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Roy Black, Monika Lundi and Peter Millowitsch.

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Triangulation station

A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Uelzen

Uelzen (Ülz'n), officially the Hanseatic Town of Uelzen (Hansestadt Uelzen), is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the district of Uelzen.

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Uelzen (district)

Uelzen is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Uelzen–Langwedel railway

The Uelzen–Langwedel railway runs through the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany in an east-west direction.

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Unconditional surrender

An unconditional surrender is a surrender in which no guarantees, reassurances, or promises (i.e., conditions) are given to the surrendering party.

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Undeloh

Undeloh (Low German: Unnel) is a village in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Vaccinium vitis-idaea, the lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry, is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family Ericaceae, that bears edible fruit.

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Verden (district)

Verden is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the centre of Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Vissel

Vissel (also Visselbach) is a stream in Lower Saxony, Germany, on the Lüneburg Heath.

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Visselhövede

Visselhövede is a town in the district of Rotenburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Walsrode

Walsrode (Wasra) is a town in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Walsrode are Heidmark.

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Walsrode Abbey

Walsrode Abbey (German: Kloster Walsrode) in Walsrode, Germany, is one of the historic monasteries of Benedictine nuns on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany which are collectively known as the Lüneklöster. Lüneburg Heath and Walsrode Abbey are Heidmark.

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Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway

The Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway is the shortest railway link between the Metropole Ruhr and the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and hence one of the most important railway lines in northwest Germany.

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Wümme

Wümme is a river in northern Germany, in the states Lower Saxony and Bremen, marking the border between the two states for part of its course.

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Weichselian glaciation

The Weichselian glaciation is the regional name for the Last Glacial Period in the northern parts of Europe.

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Weltvogelpark Walsrode

Walsrode World Bird Park (Weltvogelpark Walsrode), known as Jubs in English until 2010, is a bird park located in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany within the municipality of Bomlitz near Walsrode in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Lüneburg Heath and Weltvogelpark Walsrode are Heidmark.

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Weser

The Weser is a river of Lower Saxony in north-west Germany.

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Westenholz

Westenholz is a surname.

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Wienhausen Abbey

Wienhausen Abbey or Convent (Kloster Wienhausen) near Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, is a community of Evangelical Lutheran women, which until the Reformation was a Cistercian Catholic nunnery.

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Wieren

Wieren is a village and a former municipality in the district of Uelzen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Wietzer Berg

The Wietzer Berg is a low hill, 102 metres above sea level, on the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle.

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Wilseder Berg

At, the Wilseder Berg is the highest point on the Lüneburg Heath in North Germany.

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Wittingen

Wittingen is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Woodland

A woodland is, in the broad sense, land covered with woody plants (trees and shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (see differences between British, American and Australian English explained below).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lüneburg_Heath

Also known as Lueneberg Heath, Lueneburg Heath, Lueneburger Heide, Lüneberg Heath, Lüneburger Heide, Lunenburg Heath.

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Lüneburg Heath, the Glossary

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