Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony
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Woltersdorf is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg
, in Lower Saxony
, Germany
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The municipality Woltersdorf includes the villages Woltersdorf, Klein Breese, Lichtenberg and Thurau.
Famous sites around Woltersdorf are the Brautstein ("stone of the bride") and the Feldkirche ("church on the field"). Both of them can be seen in the coat of arms of Woltersdorf.
Former is a formation of ancient boulders left there by glaciers in the ice-age and has a legend to it, latter has a little stone in its walls which was taken from the slavic population and was built into the church. The stone shows a face that the Slavic poulation obviously prayed to. The Christians built it into their church to show their superiority.
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...
, in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
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The municipality Woltersdorf includes the villages Woltersdorf, Klein Breese, Lichtenberg and Thurau.
Famous sites around Woltersdorf are the Brautstein ("stone of the bride") and the Feldkirche ("church on the field"). Both of them can be seen in the coat of arms of Woltersdorf.
Former is a formation of ancient boulders left there by glaciers in the ice-age and has a legend to it, latter has a little stone in its walls which was taken from the slavic population and was built into the church. The stone shows a face that the Slavic poulation obviously prayed to. The Christians built it into their church to show their superiority.