Dannenberg (Elbe)
Dannenberg 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.
Dannenberg is located on the German Timber-Frame Road.
It is the seat of the Samtgemeinde Elbtalaue.
The actual history of the town began with the construction of the castle during the rule of Volrad I, Count of Dannenberg, 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
- Johannes Schultz, composer
- Augustin Gottfried Ludwig Lentin,, writer and translator of works on chemistry and metallurgy
- Eleonore Prochaska, who died in Dannenberg, female soldier of Napoleonic Wars
- Theodor Körner, wrote in Dannenberg before Battle of the Göhrde the Federal song Before the battle
- Bernhard Riemann, important mathematician
- Harry Bresslau,, Jewish historian and diplomat
- Detlef Weigel, development biologist
- Kai Fagaschinski, jazz clarinetist and composer
- Nicolas Born, writer
