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colonisation settlements in the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg. Since then the bid has been modified to encompass the landscape between the villages, and 19 villages were chosen to represent the best of the
Rundlingslandschaft. The uniqueness of these circular villages stems from their combination of a
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facing a central green as well as the fact that their houses represent a regionally specific variation of this type of farmhouse. The state of Lower Saxony hoped that the bid will prove successful because these circular villages are among the most unrepresented categories of
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and farming architecture in the UNESCO's world heritage list. However the decision was taken by the German state governments on
December 4th 2023 not to put the "Rundling Landschaft" forward to UNESCO in Paris. There are no current plans to resubmit the bid.
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terrain, afforested with pines. With infertile soils and a scarcity of water as a result of the porous soil it was always historically a hostile environment for settlers. The largest part of the
Hanoverian Wendland, however, lies in the
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Hanoverian Wendland is largely due to their relatively isolated situation and the low economic prosperity of the region. But socio-cultural reasons appear to have also played an important role.
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type that emerged during times of German-Slav conflict in the
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