Place:Uelzen, Uelzen, Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

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NameUelzen
TypeTown
Coordinates52.967°N 10.567°E
Located inUelzen, Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
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Uelzen (; officially the Hanseatic Town of Uelzen, German: Hansestadt Uelzen, , Low German Ülz’n) is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality.

Uelzen is characterised by timber-framed architecture and also has some striking examples of North German brick Gothic. The county town earned pan-regional fame when Friedensreich Hundertwasser was selected to redesign the station: the final work of the celebrated Viennese artist and architect was ceremonially opened in 2000 as the Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen, and has since been a popular tourist magnet.

The Polabian name for Uelzen is (spelled Wiltzaus in older German reference material), possibly derived from or (< Slavic *) 'alder'.

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