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Kreis Herzogtum
Lauenburg The region between Sachsenwald Forest and Lake Schaalsee
in Duchy of Lauenburg County is often called a landscape out of a
picture-book, with its idyllic, untouched lakes, the ancient villages
with their half-timbered and stonework churches and famous manor houses,
and the towns like Ratzeburg, Mölln and Lauenburg snuggling into the
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| Here, landscape painters don’t need to
add any ornamental flourishes, they can just copy Nature along with
what Man has added randomly and artificially, and thus create a picture
that is immediately a pleasure to any beholder – those were
the words of an English gentleman in the last century. The facts are
obvious: in the district, a quarter of which is covered with woodland,
there are eighty lakes and a network of footpaths extends over a distance
of over 800 km. In addition to which, Sachsenwald Forest is the biggest
continuous wooded area in Schleswig-Holstein.
But there were famous people
among the inhabitants of Herzogtum Lauenburg County as well: Ernst
Barlach, A. Paul Weber, and Otto Fürst von Bismarck of course.
Revered by some as the founder of the Reich and denounced by others
as the chancellor of blood and iron, Bismarck was given Sachsenwald
Forest as a gift by the Prussian king in 1871, six years after Herzogtum
Lauenburg had become part of Prussia.
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| Schleswig-Holstein State between two seas |
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Schleswig-Holstein is the only German state between two seas: the
North Sea and the Baltic. The state with its 2.7 million inhabitants
makes use of its geographical location between Scandinavia and Eastern
Europe. It is a hub for the entire Baltic region, which with its
50 million inhabitants is one of the areas where Europe’s
future lies. Environmental measures are particularly called for
here if the natural beauty of Schleswig-Holstein is to be preserved.
Clean air and soil are important location factors, both for business
and for the people living here. |
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