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Gorleben Tour

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Urlaubsregion Wendland.Elbe

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Photo: Frank Schmitt, CC BY-SA, Urlaubsregion Wendland.Elbe

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This bike tour leads through Wendland to places of resistance against the nuclear facilities Gorleben and Dragahn, where German democracy history was written.

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Distance 79.8 km

8:00 h

108 m

115 m

81 m

11 m

The bike tour through the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg, better known as the Wendland region, leads to various stations of the decades-long resistance against the nuclear facilities in Gorleben and Dragahn.

Along the approx. 80 km long cycling route, information boards with texts and images have been set up at various historical locations, telling the stories of confrontations, actions and decisions in the 50-year history of Gorleben resistance.

Additionally, further background information, videos, photos or music pieces can be accessed via a QR code linked with the Gorleben archive.

Author

Babette Liebisch

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Urlaubsregion Wendland.Elbe

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moderate

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moderate

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81 m

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11 m

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Bahnhof Hitzacker (Elbe)
Infostele Bahnhof Hitzacker (Elbe)
Infostele Dragahn
Atelier: Frank Meurer & Diana Stegmann
Kirsten Bertz – Bildhauerin
Rundlingsdorf Thunpadel
Dauerausstellung der Touristinformation Dannenberg
St.-Johannis-Kirche zu Dannenberg
Museum im Waldemarturm
Infostele Dannenberg (Elbe)
Thielenburger See
Katholische Kirche St. Peter und Paul zu Dannenberg
Infostele Splietau
Infostele Grippel
Kapelle Gorleben
Woodhenge
Gartower See
Infostele Gartow
Atelier Susanne Rose
Ausstellung Biosphärenreservat Niedersächsische Elbtalaue
Kunstkammer und Westwendischer Kunstverein
Infostele 1004
Beluga in Gorleben
Infostele Gasthaus Wiese
Infostele Trebel
Feldsteinkirche Trebel
Kapelle Kolborn
Werkstattladen: Kunstundso
Stones Fan Museum
Infostele Gildehaus

Public transport

Public-transport-friendly

Arrival:

Hitzacker (Elbe) train station - Regional train Lüneburg - Dannenberg (Elbe)

Return trip:

Bus station Lüchow (Wendland) - Bus 7000 to Uelzen station towards Hannover or Lüneburg/Hamburg

Bus 8000 to Dannenberg (Elbe) to the regional train to Lüneburg/Hamburg

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Gorleben Tour

Directions

from the North: Hamburg - Lüneburg - B 219 - Metzingen turnoff - Hitzacker (Elbe) train station

from the West: Hannover - Celle - Uelzen - B 191 - Prisser left towards Hitzacker (Elbe) - Streetz roundabout - towards Hitzacker (Elbe) - train station signposts

from the South: Magdeburg - B 71- Salzwedel - B 248 - Lüchow (Wendland) - Schaafhausen - B 248 a - Prisser - Streetz roundabout - Hitzacker (Elbe) - train station signposts

from the East: Ludwigslust - B 191 - Dömitz - Dannenberg (Elbe) - Hitzacker (Elbe) - train station signposts

Parking

At the Hitzacker (Elbe) train station

Coordinates

53.139277, 11.038701

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53°08'21.4"N 11°02'19.3"E

UTM

32U 636369 5889705

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Book recommendation by the author

www.gorleben-archiv.de

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Wendland.Elbe

available at the tourist information centers in Hitzacker, Dannenberg, Lüchow and Gartow

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Parts of this content were machine translated from German.

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moderate

Overall difficulty

moderate

Derived from the technical difficulty and the stamina requirements.

Distance

79.8 km

Duration

8:00 h

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108 m

Descent

115 m

Highest point

81 m

Lowest point

11 m

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