Soltau in the Lüneburg Heath
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Soltau is a mid-sized town in the
Lüneburg Heath in the district of
Heidekreis , in
Lower Saxony . The town is nationwide well known especially because of a nukber of tourist attractions, such as
Heide-Park ,
Soltau-Therme ,
Designer Outlet and
Abenteuerresort Lüneburger Heide in nearby
Bispingen . Soltau lies centrally between
Bremen ,
Hamburg and
Hanover on the river
Böhme . The name Soltau comes from
Solt (salt) and
au (river).
There is a number of churches worth seeing in Soltau. These include St. John’s, which was first mentioned in 1464. The Lutheran Church was the second Protestant church to be built in Soltau (in 1911) after St. John’s had burnt down in 1906 and only a small replacement was built. Other religious buildings are the Catholic St. Mary’s Church built in 1915, the Holy Spirit Church in Wolterdingen as an old Gothic heath church dating to 1245, the Heidenhof Chapel built in 1349 and the Zion Church built in 1888.
Bürgermeisterhaus im Hagen, oldest building in Soltau from 1599 © Frank Vincentz/cc-by-sa-3.0
Opposite the equally attractive Old Town Hall in the centre of the town is the building housing the
North German Toy Museum with 600 m² of exhibition floor and the
Soltau Museum . Near the centre of town is the
Breidingsgarten , a landscaped park that is under heritage protection. It was laid out around 1850 along English lines and has an area of 11 hectares (27 acres). Within the garden, next to a villa built in the Italian style is a ruined building, an old farmstead and fish and ornamental ponds. It is currently in private hands but may still be visited. Other open spaces in the town include the
Böhme Park and the
Röders’ Park am Halifax . Nearby recreation areas are the Wacholder Park, an area of heath with a sheep shed, the
Ahlftener Flatt , a lake from the last ice age, which is popular for ice skating in winter, and the Kuhbach Forest. Around Soltau there are various woods belonging to the Soltau Abbey Forest (
Klosterforst ) covering a total of 14,500 hectares (36,000 acres) which is managed by the Soltau Abbey Forestry Department.
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