Editing Lüneburg (district) (section)

== History ==

The ''[[Amt (country subdivision)|Amt]]'' of Lüneburg appeared in 1862. At that time the ''Amt'' of Lüne moved its seat from  [[Lüne Abbey]] into the Lüneburg [[Riding Academy (Lüneburg)|Riding Academy]] and its name was changed. The district was established after the [[Kingdom of Hanover]] was annexed by [[Prussia]] in 1866. From 1867 the ''Ämter'' of Lüneburg, [[Amt Bleckede|Bleckede]] and the town of Lüneburg became parts of the district of Lüneburg, which was exclusively responsible for taxes and the military.

The history of the region has always been influenced by the town of [[Lüneburg]]: see there for more details.

In 1993 the municipality of [[Amt Neuhaus]] joined Lower Saxony and the District of Lüneburg. This region had always been ruled by Lüneburg before the division of Germany made it a part of [[East Germany]] after 1945. It is hence one of the very few municipalities of the former East Germany that are now in a state that was formerly in [[West Germany]].

The district is one of the core areas for monuments and archaeological discoveries from prehistory. Ernst Sprockhoff noted 17 sites west of the Ilmenau and 32 east of it. The most outstanding are the sites of the [[Soderstorf Necropolis]] and the [[Oldendorfer Totenstatt]].