Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Uelzen (Germany). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Hösseringen Museum Village, Hundertwasser station, and Oldenstadt Abbey Church. Also, be sure to include St. Marien Kirche in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Uelzen (Lower Saxony).
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Hösseringen Museum Village
Also known as: Museumsdorf Hösseringen
Museum in Suderburg, Germany. The Hösseringen Museum Village is located at Hösseringen in the German state of Lower Saxony. Covering an area of 10,000 square metres, it displays important examples of the Lower German, timber-framed, open-hall house, the so-called Low German house or Fachhallenhaus.
These buildings are all faithful reconstructions, the majority stemming from Uelzen district, that have been dismantled, moved and rebuilt on the site. To date, 26 buildings from the 16th to 19th centuries have been reconstructed. The centrepiece of the museum village is the Brümmerhof hall house (Hallenhaus), a single-building farmhouse (Einzelhof) from the early 17th century.
Permanent exhibitions give insights into the working methods and implements used for beekeeping, sheep farming, spinning, weaving, forging, and many other rural activities. In addition to the exhibitions, great emphasis is placed on demonstrating the sequence of operations used in historical crafts and the methods employed in country areas. For example, horses are frequently shoed in the smithy and, in other buildings, cloth is woven or bread baked. Farm gardens representing the period around 1900 are maintained and illustrate the life of country folk.
The site of the Hösseringen Museum Village is surrounded by the dense forests of the Lüneburg Heath that form a natural backdrop for the buildings and agricultural displays of the village.
The museum village was founded in 1975 by the Lüneburg Heath Country Museum Society (Verein Landwirtschaftsmuseum Lüneburger Heide). The society produces its own publications that are mainly on the subject of the rural history of the Lüneburg Heath and the crafts and techniques used there and which promote the subject area portrayed by the Hösseringen Museum Village across Germany.[1]
Address: Landtagsplatz 2, 29556 Suderburg
Hundertwasser station
Also known as: Bahnhof Uelzen
Railway station. Uelzen is a railway station located in Uelzen, Germany, at the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park. The station is located on the Hannover–Hamburg railway, Uelzen–Langwedel railway, Stendal–Uelzen railway and Brunswick–Uelzen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, Metronom and Erixx.
The original station was renovated for Expo 2000 following plans by the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. As an "environmentally culturally oriented" station, the Uelzen station is now marketed as the Hundertwasser-Bahnhof Uelzen (Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen). Today it is one of the town's popular tourist attractions.[2]
Address: 1 Friedensreich-Hundertwasser-Platz, Uelzen
Oldenstadt Abbey Church
The monastery church of St. John the Baptist is the church of the former monastery of Oldenstadt. Oldenstadt forms the nucleus of the Hanseatic town of Uelzen and is now part of the urban area.
The church is the remaining remnant of a Benedictine monastery, which was built in the 12th century on the site of a former canoness monastery from the 10th century. The canoness monastery had been founded in 966 or 973 by Bishop Bruno I of Verden on the Ullishusen estate, church patron saints St. Mary and John the Baptist. The monastery was conveniently located on the long-distance road between Goslar/Braunschweig and Lüneburg. In addition, the crossing over the Wipperau River was in the immediate vicinity.
St. Marien Kirche
The Gothic St. Marien Church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and is one of the oldest churches in the Uelzen district. In the Uelzen church district, it is the central focal point for regional church services and events. The church congregation includes around 4900 parishioners from Uelzen's city center and Königsberg district, as well as the villages of Hambrock, Halligdorf, Niendorf, Ripdorf and Woltersburg.
Address: Pastorenstr. 2, 29525 Uelzen
Zum Göttlichen Erlöser
Zum Göttlichen Erlöser is the Catholic church in Uelzen, a district town in Lower Saxony. It is today the oldest church in the deanery of Lüneburg. Its parish of the same name, which includes all Catholic churches in the district of Uelzen, belongs to the diocese of Hildesheim. The church bears the patrocinium Christus Erlöser and is located at Alewinstraße 29.
Address: 29 Alewinstraße, Uelzen
Badeland Uelzen BADUE
Outdoor activities, Park, Relax in park
Address: Veerßer Straße 77, Uelzen
Theater an der Ilmenau
Concerts and shows, Theater
Address: Greyerstraße 3, Uelzen
St. Petri
St. Peter's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church with an adjacent community center in Uelzen on Osterstraße. The area of the parish covers the eastern part of the district located by the Ilmenau River and Niendorfer Street, including the new development area Eschenkamp, and has about 4,800 parishioners.
Address: Osterstr. 17/18, Uelzen
Water tower
Also known as: Wasserturm
Water tower
Also known as: Wasserturm
Maschinenring Uelzen-Isenhagen e.V.
Address: Heinrichstr. 7, Uelzen