Faßberg
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Faßberg is a municipality in the district of Celle
, in Lower Saxony
, Germany
. It is situated approx. 35 km north of Celle
, and 30 km west of Uelzen
.
Celle (district)
Celle is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Uelzen, Gifhorn, Hanover and Heidekreis.- Geography :...
, in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is situated approx. 35 km north of Celle
Celle
Celle is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the River Aller, a tributary of the Weser and has a population of about 71,000...
, and 30 km west of Uelzen
Uelzen
Uelzen is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality....
.
Places of interest
- Historic village centre of Müden (Örtze)Müden (Örtze)Müden is a village in the municipality of Faßberg in the southern part of the Lüneburg Heath in the German state of Lower Saxony.The village, which is situated in the county of Celle has around 2220 inhabitants and is a very popular tourist centre, whose catchment area includes Hamburg, Bremen and...
- Berlin Airlift memorial
- St. Laurentius church
- TreppenspeicherTreppenspeicherA Treppenspeicher is the German term for a small barn or secondary farm building used for storage and typical of the Lüneburg Heath area in northern Germany...
barns from the 18th and 19th centuries - Old village square with its old smithy with Sod and Wippe
- Old cemetery with the graves of poetess Felicitas Rose, and artist Fritz Flebbe
- Former residence of the heath poetess Felicitas Rose
- Hermann LönsHermann LönsHermann Löns was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs...
memorial plaque on house at Salzmoor 2a - Heath farmsteads with TreppenspeicherTreppenspeicherA Treppenspeicher is the German term for a small barn or secondary farm building used for storage and typical of the Lüneburg Heath area in northern Germany...
barns in Schmarbeck and Oberohe - Löns StoneHermann LönsHermann Löns was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Löns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs...
with area of heathland on the Wietzer BergWietzer BergThe Wietzer Berg is a low hill, 102 metres above sea level, on the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle. It lies about 2 kilometres west-southwest of the tourist village of Müden and is a popular destination in the generally flat landscape of the Südheide Nature Park...
(towards Hermannsburg on the L214 state road) - HaußelbergHaußelbergThe Haußelberg is a above NN high hill in the Lüneburg Heath in the north German district of Celle. It is a popular viewing point in the otherwise very flat terrain of the Südheide Nature Park....
with large areas of heath near Gerdehus - Juniper wood and shattered glacial erraticGlacial erraticA glacial erratic is a piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests. "Erratics" take their name from the Latin word errare, and are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundreds of kilometres...
boulders in the heathland of Schmarbeck - KiehnmoorKiehnmoorThe Kiehnmoor is a nature reserve in Germany. It was designated as a nature reserve in 1992. It has an area of of which lie in Celle district and in Uelzen district. The nature conservation authorities of these districts are responsible for the reserve. A large part of the area is wet meadow,...
nature reserve near Schmarbeck - Historic water mill in Müden (now a tourist office, bookshop and marriage office)
- Deer park and adventurous climbing park in Heuweg in Müden