Lüneburg Heath Nature Park


Lüneburg Heath Nature Park is a nature park, a form of protected environment, located in the Lüneburg Heath in northern Germany.
It has an area of. The centre of the nature park is the Lüneburg Heath Nature Reserve with an area of.

Geography

The nature park belongs to the former province of Lüneburg and, after its expansion in 2007, extends into the districts of Harburg, Lüneburg and Heidekreis. The Lüneburg Heath Nature Park is bordered in the north by Buchholz, in the east by Lüneburg, in the south by Soltau and in the west by Neuenkirchen. It lies roughly south of Hamburg, 70 km east of Bremen and 90 km north of Hanover. It was established as early as 1922, initially with of nature reserve. In 1993 this area was increased to. By the beginning of 2007 the area of the nature reserve almost coincided with the area of the nature park. On 14 February 2007 the park was expanded to. The areas added included various protected areas.

Legal status

The park is one of 98 nature parks in Germany. They were established under section 22, paragraph 4 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act. They comprise about 25% of the total land area of Germany and are linked by the Verband Deutscher Naturparke.
Note that this is a separate category from the 14 Nationalparke of Germany, under paragraph 24 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act. See List of national parks of Germany.

Nature reserves

There are some 20 nature reserves in the park.
NSGs with an area of more than 100 hectares are:
There are more than 50 protected landscapes in the park.
LSGs with an area of more than 500 hectares are: