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{{Infobox German place
|type               = Stadt
|image_coa            = DEU Lüchow (Wendland) COA.png
|image_photo = Luechow marktplatz 4033.jpg
|image_caption = The marketplace with the old City Hall
|coordinates       = {{coord|52|58|N|11|09|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Lüchow (Wendland) in DAN.svg
|state        = Niedersachsen
|district         = Lüchow-Dannenberg
|Samtgemeinde      = [[Lüchow (Wendland)|Lüchow]]
|elevation              = 18
|area            = 89.01
|postal_code               = 29439
|area_code           = 05841
|licence               = DAN
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 3 54 018
|divisions        = 7 [[Ortsteil]]e
|website           = {{website|http://www.luechow.de/}}
|mayor     = Torsten Petersen
|party            = 
}}
'''Lüchow''' ({{IPA|de|ˈlyːçoː|lang}}; {{langx|pox|Ljauchüw}}){{efn|Spelled ''Lgauchi'' or ''Lieuschü'' in older German reference material.}} is a city in northeastern [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]]. It is the seat of the {{lang|de|[[Samtgemeinde]]}} ("collective municipality") [[Lüchow (Samtgemeinde)|Lüchow]], and is the capital of the district [[Lüchow-Dannenberg]]. Situated in the historical region of [[Wendland]], approximately 13&nbsp;km north of [[Salzwedel]], Lüchow is located on the [[German Half-Timbered House Road|German Framework Road]].

In Lüchow one can find the [[Stones Fan Museum]]. The museum is designated to the Rolling Stones and was founded in 2011.<ref>Huffington Post, [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/rolling-stone-mouth-shape_n_1250119.html?guccounter=1 Rolling Stone Mouth-Shaped Urinals Called Sexist], 2 February 2012</ref>

==Geography==
The river [[Jeetzel]], a tributary of the [[Elbe]], flows through the city.<ref>Klaus Rohmeyer and Hans Jürgen Hansen, ''Land zwischen Heide und Meer'', Süddeutscher Verlag (publisher), 1979, page 107.</ref> The [[Drawehn|surrounding landscape]] was created by glacial action, rising in the west, lower in the east.

A total of 89&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> are within the limits of the city, which is divided into 24 [[borough]]s: 
{|
|- style="vertical-align:top"
|
* [[Banneick]]
* [[Beutow]]
* [[Bösel (Wendland)|Bösel]]
* [[Gollau]]
* [[Grabow (Wendland)|Grabow]]
* [[Jabel (Wendland)|Jabel]]
|
* [[Jeetzel, Lüchow|Jeetzel]]
* [[Kolborn]]
* [[Krautze]]
* [[Künsche]]
* [[Loge (Wendland)|Loge]]
* '''Lüchow'''
|
* [[Lüsen (Wendland)|Lüsen]]
* [[Müggenburg (Wendland)|Müggenburg]]
* [[Plate (Wendland)|Plate]]
* [[Ranzau]]
* [[Reddebeitz]]
* [[Reetze]]
|
* [[Rehbeck]]
* [[Saaße]]
* [[Satemin]]
* [[Seerau in der Lucie]]
* [[Tarmitz]]
* [[Weitsche]]
|}

Several of the boroughs are named for, and generally represent, previously independent settlements which Lüchow has incorporated. [[Image:Drawehn.png|thumb|left|Map of the surrounding [[Drawehn]] landscape]]

The site was first mentioned in 1158, and received city rights in 1293. The only remnant of the fortifications built to defend in the late Middle Ages is a tower, which was adapted and used as a bell tower by St John's Church. A gate was erected in 1555 which divided the city centre from its western suburbs; this gate was demolished in 1793. Lüchow suffered from an outbreak of the [[Black Death|Plague]] in 1537, and barely half a century later, in 1589, was largely destroyed by [[fire]]. Another fire in 1608 destroyed much of what had been rebuilt. The worst fire, in 1811, destroyed even the city hall and the [[Schloss]].

==Climate==

{{Weather box	
| location = Lüchow (1991–2020 normals)	
| metric first = Y	
| single line = Y	
|collapsed = Y
|Jan high C = 	3.8
|Feb high C = 	4.9
|Mar high C = 	9.1
|Apr high C = 	14.6
|May high C = 	19.1
|Jun high C = 	22.0
|Jul high C = 	24.5
|Aug high C = 	24.2
|Sep high C = 	19.6
|Oct high C = 	13.9
|Nov high C = 	7.9
|Dec high C = 	4.6
| year high C =	13.9
|Jan mean C = 	1.3
|Feb mean C = 	1.9
|Mar mean C = 	4.7
|Apr mean C = 	9.2
|May mean C = 	13.5
|Jun mean C = 	16.4
|Jul mean C = 	18.6
|Aug mean C = 	18.1
|Sep mean C = 	14.2
|Oct mean C = 	9.5
|Nov mean C = 	5.2
|Dec mean C = 	2.3
|year mean C = 	9.5
|Jan low C = 	-1.2
|Feb low C = 	-1.3
|Mar low C = 	0.9
|Apr low C = 	3.5
|May low C = 	7.2
|Jun low C = 	10.2
|Jul low C = 	12.5
|Aug low C = 	12.3
|Sep low C = 	9.1
|Oct low C = 	5.7
|Nov low C = 	2.4
|Dec low C = 	-0.2
| year low C =	5.1
| precipitation colour = green	
|Jan precipitation mm = 	46.1
|Feb precipitation mm = 	31.2
|Mar precipitation mm = 	38.0
|Apr precipitation mm = 	29.0
|May precipitation mm = 	50.3
|Jun precipitation mm = 	54.0
|Jul precipitation mm = 	72.9
|Aug precipitation mm = 	60.8
|Sep precipitation mm = 	43.6
|Oct precipitation mm = 	48.2
|Nov precipitation mm = 	40.9
|Dec precipitation mm = 	43.7
| year precipitation mm =	555.3
| unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 	16.8
|Feb precipitation days = 	14.6
|Mar precipitation days = 	14.5
|Apr precipitation days = 	12.2
|May precipitation days = 	13.0
|Jun precipitation days = 	13.3
|Jul precipitation days = 	15.0
|Aug precipitation days = 	14.4
|Sep precipitation days = 	12.8
|Oct precipitation days = 	15.0
|Nov precipitation days = 	16.6
|Dec precipitation days = 	17.1
|year precipitation days = 	175.9
|Jan sun = 	46.9
|Feb sun = 	72.5
|Mar sun = 	125.1
|Apr sun = 	186.8
|May sun = 	226.9
|Jun sun = 	225.2
|Jul sun = 	227.8
|Aug sun = 	210.1
|Sep sun = 	159.7
|Oct sun = 	110.4
|Nov sun = 	50.1
|Dec sun = 	38.5
|year sun = 	1661.6
|Jan humidity = 	87.8
|Feb humidity = 	84.1
|Mar humidity = 	79.4
|Apr humidity = 	72.8
|May humidity = 	71.9
|Jun humidity = 	73.1
|Jul humidity = 	73.0
|Aug humidity = 	74.9
|Sep humidity = 	80.1
|Oct humidity = 	85.4
|Nov humidity = 	89.4
|Dec humidity = 	89.1
| source 1 = [[World Meteorological Organization]]<ref name=WMO>{{cite web
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231012162520/https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Germany/CSV/Luechow_10253.csv
| archive-date = 12 October 2023
| url = https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0216/0253808/1.1/data/0-data/Region-6-WMO-Normals-9120/Germany/CSV/Luechow_10253.csv
| title = World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991–2020
| work = World Meteorological Organization Climatological Standard Normals (1991–2020)
| publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| access-date = 12 October 2023}}</ref>
}}

==Twin towns - sister cities==
Lüchow is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:
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*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Céret]], France (1983)
*{{flagicon|POL}} [[Oborniki]], Poland (2007)
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Steglitz-Zehlendorf|Steglitz-Zehlendorf (Berlin)]], Germany (2019)
{{div col end}}

==Sons and daughters of the city==
[[Friedrich Syrup]] was born in Lüchow.
[[Detlef Weigel]] grew up and attended high school in Lüchow.

[[Image:Luechow Amtsturm 8552.jpg|thumb|The "Amtsturm", a remnant of the Schloss]]

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==External links==
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*[http://www.luechow.de Official Webpage]
*[http://www.facebook.com/Luechow Facebook Page]

==Notes==
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==References==
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*[[Johann Parum Schultze]]; Reinhold Olesch (publisher): ''Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores et Chronica Venedica J. P. Schultzii''. (=&nbsp;Slavistische Forschungen; Band 7). Böhlau, Köln und Graz 1967
*[[Christian Hennig von Jessen]]: ''Vocabularium Venedicum (oder Wendisches Wörter-Buch)'' (1705). Nachdruck besorgt von Reinhold Olesch. - Köln [u.a.]: Böhlau 1959 (Pastor C. Hennig von Jessen's source was the Polabian-speaking Johann Janieschge of Klennow)
* ''Chronik der Stadt Lüchow''. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft E. Köhring, Lüchow 1949, 2. unveränd. Nachdruck (second unaltered edition) 1989
* Karl Kowalewski: ''Lüchow. Vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Jeetzel-Stadt''. Stade 1980
* Karl Kowalewski: ''Der große Brand von Lüchow 1811 und der Wiederaufbau der Stadt'', Lüchow 2006
* Karl Kowalewski: ''Von Altertümern und von Heimatliebe. Notizen und Beobachtungen aus Anlaß des Doppeljubiläums; 75 Jahre Wendländischer Altertumsverein 1905–1980; 50 Jahre Wendländisches Heimatmuseum 1930–1980''. Lüchow 1980
* Burghard Kulow: ''Lüchow (Wendland), Die 50er und 60er Jahre''. Horb 2006
* Hans Nordsiek: ''Von Lüchow nach Salzwedel – auf den Spuren des Mindener Reformators Nicolaus Krage''. In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsvereins, 53/1981, pages 51–106
* Peter und Torsten Schoepe: ''Lüchow. Wandel des Stadtbildes in 120 Jahren''. Lüchow 1985

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