The region was created under royal Hanoverian rule in 1823 as Landdrostei Lüneburg (about: High-Bailiwick of Lüneburg), renamed Regierungsbezirk (about: governorate) in 1885, then being a subdivision of the Prussian Province of Hanover. On 1 February 1978 the Lüneburg Region incorporated the neighbouring former Stade Region. The governorate, like all remaining Lower Saxon governorates, was dissolved in 2004.
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