Luckau is a village or '' Gemeinde'' (municipality) in the south of the '' Kreis'' (local government district) of

Lüchow-Dannenberg Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany, which is usually referred to as Hanoverian Wendland (''Hannoversches Wendland'') or Wendland. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg and the ...

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, where it forms part of the ''

Samtgemeinde A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division) ...

'' (joint municipal association) of

Lüchow Lüchow (; ) is a city in northeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the seat of the ("collective municipality") Lüchow, and is the capital of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg. Situated in the historical region of Wendland, approximately 13&nb ...

. The village lies some eight kilometres southwest of

itself, the administrative centre of both the ''Kreis'' and the ''Samtgemeinde''. The southern border of the municipality coincides with that between the German federal states of

and

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...

. Situated in the region known as the

Wendland The Wendland () is a region in Germany on the borders of the present states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Its heart is the Hanoverian Wendland in the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony. ...

, Luckau is one of the ''rundlings'' (villages arranged in a circle around a common land, common) that are characteristic of the area. The name Luckau comes from the Slavic languages, Slavic ''lauck'', signifying a leek- or onion-field.

Parishes included in the municipality

*Bülitz *Köhlen *Mammoißel *: This hamlet is one of the best-preserved Wendland ''rundlings''. Worth seeing is a Timber framing#The vertical timbers, four-post Low German house, Low German "hall house" dating from 1777, which displays a diagonal pattern of tiling and Timber framing, half-timbers. The placename stems from the Slavic and means ''Seat of the Malomysl''. Around 40 people live here. *Nauden *Püggen *Steine *Zargleben *Zeetze

References

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