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Lüchow

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 Half-timbered facade on the Long Road
Half-timbered facade on the Long Road.

Lüchow in Hanover's Wendland with its Rundling villages

"Half-timbered impressions" - this is probably the correct description of the townscape of the historic old town
of Lüchow (Wendland).
Anyone who walks through the town center will encounter a rarely uniform and balanced architectural image on
the main street, at the central market square and also in the side streets. It is a simple and functional framework,
the uniformity of which is no coincidence. Early Biedermeier stylistic elements refer to the time it was built and the
previous event: a fire in 1811 destroyed the entire town center and also the imposing castle, of which the official
tower was preserved as a relic. An attractive balance determined the reconstruction; civic pride was represented
in the Ratskeller with its impressive facade on the market square. The Rundlings area, which is unique in Germany,
begins in Lüchow's immediate surroundings, with the villages as a special form with their uniform half-timbered
farmhouses grouped around a central village square.