Luckau is a village or Gemeinde (municipality

Municipality

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) in the southern part of the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg

Lüchow-Dannenberg

Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany which is usually referred to as Hannoversches Wendland or Wendland. It is bounded by the districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg and the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in...

, Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

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, Germany

Germany

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. The village is located in the region known as Wendland

Wendland

Wendland may refer to either of the following regions or people:*Wendland may refer to a region once inhabited by Wends, an old Germanic term for Slavic tribes living in close proximity to the Germanic tribes:...

about ten kilometers southwest of the district capital (or county seat) of Lüchow (Wendland). The southern border of the municipality coincides with the border between the German federal states of Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

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 and Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt

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.

Luckau is included in the consolidated municipality (Samtgemeinde) Lüchow (Wendland).

Luckau is one of the rundling

Rundling

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s (a village arranged in a circle around a commons) that are frequently to be found in Wendland

Wendland

Wendland may refer to either of the following regions or people:*Wendland may refer to a region once inhabited by Wends, an old Germanic term for Slavic tribes living in close proximity to the Germanic tribes:...

. The name of the town comes from the Slavic

Slavic languages

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 lauck and means leek

Leek

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 or onion field.

Parishes in the municipality

• Bülitz
• Köhlen
• Mammoißel

  This hamlet is one of the best-preserved rundlings in the Wendland

  Wendland

  Wendland may refer to either of the following regions or people:*Wendland may refer to a region once inhabited by Wends, an old Germanic term for Slavic tribes living in close proximity to the Germanic tribes:...

  
  . Worth seeing is a four-post Low German "hall house" dating from 1777, which displays a diagonal pattern of tiles and half-timbers

  Timber framing

  Timber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...

  
  . The placename stems from the Slavic and means Seat of the Malomysl. Approximately 40 people live here.

• Nauden
• Püggen
• Steine
• Zargleben
• Zeetze