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Lüneburg Old Town
A charming Hanseatic salt town with crooked gabled houses and a tilting brick skyline, gateway to the heath.
22 km · about 25 min drive
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Bad Bevensen
Lower Saxony, Germany · Europe
About Bad Bevensen
Bad Bevensen is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Altenmedingen, 36km from Lüneburg Heath.
Bad Bevensen is in Lower Saxony, Germany, with about 8,700 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Altenmedingen, about 6 km away.
Bad Bevensen (German pronunciation: [baːt ˈbeːvn̩zn̩] ; Low German: Bämsen) is a town in the north of the district Uelzen in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated to the east of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). The Ilmenau river, a tributary of the Elbe, flows through Bad Bevensen. Bad Bevensen is a well-knownRead more
spa town.
Bad Bevensen is the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Bevensen-Ebstorf.
Incorporated into the municipality are the villages of Gollern, Groß Hesebeck, Jastorf, Klein Bünstorf, Klein Hesebeck, Medingen, Röbbel, Sasendorf and Seedorf. Jastorf is situated some 3 kilometres (2 miles) south of the town center. It is the site of an Iron Age cemetery which gave the name of the Jastorf culture.
In the run-up to the G20 summit in 2017, left-wing extremists set a fire in the town.
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What is there to see near Bad Bevensen?
Within an hour or so of Bad Bevensen: Lüneburg Old Town (22 km), Lüneburg Heath (36 km).
Where is Bad Bevensen?
Bad Bevensen is in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 6 km from Altenmedingen.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 8,700
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Germany
- Region
- Lower Saxony
- Timezone
- Europe/Berlin
- Coordinates
- 53.0792, 10.5813
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Germany
ADAC roadside assistance: +49 89 22 22 22. No general speed limit on some autobahn sections but advisory 130 km/h.
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Worth the detour from Bad Bevensen
2 notable places within an hour's drive.
national park
Lüneburg Heath
A vast purple-blossoming heathland nature reserve, magical when the heather blooms in late summer and crossed by car-free trails.
36 km · about 40 min drive
Driving in Germany
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.78/litre
- Motorway tolls
- None
When to drive here
April to October
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