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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Lüchow-Dannenberg

Postal codes
  
29451

Area
  
76.31 km²

Local time
  
Friday 11:20 AM

Dialling code
  
05861

State
  
Lower Saxony

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Dialling codes
  
05861

Population
  
8,230 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
29451

Municipal assoc.
  
Elbtalaue

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Weather
  
7°C, Wind S at 16 km/h, 71% Humidity

Dannenberg (Low German: Dannenbarg) is a town in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the river Elbe, approx. 30 km north of Salzwedel, and 50 km south-east of Lüneburg. Dannenberg has a population of 8,147 inhabitants (December 2010).

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Map of 29451 Dannenberg, Germany

Dannenberg is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.

It is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Elbtalaue.

The actual history of the town began with the construction of the castle (first mentioned in 1153) during the rule of Volrad I, Count of Dannenberg (1153–1169), who had been given the task of settling and securing the territory by Duke Henry the Lion.

The Polabian Names for Dannenberg are Weidars and Woikam.

Twin towns

Dannenberg is twinned with:

  • Łask, Poland, since 1999

    • People

  • Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579-1666)
  • Johannes Schultz (1582-1653), composer
  • Augustin Gottfried Ludwig Lentin, (1764-1823), writer and translator of works on chemistry and metallurgy
  • Eleonore Prochaska (1785-1813), who died in Dannenberg, female soldier of Napoleonic Wars
  • Theodor Körner (1791-1813), wrote in Dannenberg before Battle of the Göhrde the Federal song Before the battle
  • Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), important mathematician
  • Harry Bresslau, (1848-1926), Jewish historian and diplomat
  • Detlef Weigel (born 1961), development biologist
  • Kai Fagaschinski (born 1974), jazz clarinetist and composer
  • Nicolas Born (1937-1979), writer

    • References

    Dannenberg (Elbe) Wikipedia
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