Clenze is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg

Lüchow-Dannenberg

Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany which is usually referred to as Hannoversches 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 is a district in...

, in Lower Saxony

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, Germany

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. It is situated approx. 20 km northwest of Salzwedel

Salzwedel

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, and 25 km east of Uelzen

Uelzen

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.

The Polabian

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 name of Clenze is Klǫcka (spelled Cloontzka in older German reference material).

Up until November 1, 2006 Clenze was the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Clenze. It is now part of the Samtgemeinde Lüchow (Wendland).