Chasing Summer –

Another day trip and a short 30-minute train ride away from Hamburg is Luneburg. This is an even smaller town than Lubeck that we had visited two days previously.

Official Tourism-Website of Lüneburg | Lüneburg Marketing GmbH (lueneburg.info)

Unlike Lubeck, this town doesn’t have a walking map online for us. But it is pretty easy to get around. Once we found the tourist information center, I picked up a paper map with the main sites marked out.

Luneburg basically exists because of salt. Its salt production is where it made its money.

The information center is on the left-hand side of the town hall in this picture. Here is where we picked up a map of the town.

There are several museums in town as well, but it was Monday, and none of them were open while I was there.

The thing with a lot of these towns along the waterways is that over the years, the water floods the area, and sometimes, the land sinks a bit. Some of the buildings can sink with the land and end up with tilts.

This entire section of the town has sunk, and the buildings are lower. This is fun with the smaller buildings, but some of the large buildings like the churches have sections that have sunk more, and I’m seriously impressed that things haven’t fallen over.

I absolutely love wandering around the town and checking out the buildings. There are so many styles and colors popping up.

After a relaxing afternoon of strolling around town, we stopped for some ice cream before returning to our accommodations in Hamburg for our last night there.