Wendland

thumb|230px|The Limes Saxoniae border between the [[Saxons and the Lechites Obotrites, established about 810 in present-day Schleswig-Holstein]] right|230px|thumb|Germaniae veteris typus (Old Germany). Aestui, Venedi, Gythones and [[Ingaevones are visible on the right upper corner of the map. Edited by Willem and Joan Blaeu, 1645.]]

Lüchow-Dannenberg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany, which is usually referred to as Hanoverian Wendland (Hannoversches Wendland) or Wendland. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Uelzen and Lüneburg and the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (district of Ludwigslust-Parchim), Brandenburg (district of Prignitz), and Saxony-Anhalt (districts of Stendal and Altmarkkreis Salzwedel).

Lüchow (; ) is a city in northeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the seat of the ("collective municipality") Lüchow, and is the capital of the district Lüchow-Dannenberg. Situated in the historical region of Wendland, approximately 13 km north of Salzwedel, Lüchow is located on the German Framework Road.

300px|thumb|In the north the Wendland is bounded by the flood plain of the Elbe The Wendland () is a region in Germany on the borders of the present states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Its heart is the Hanoverian Wendland in the county of Lüchow-Dannenberg in Lower Saxony.

The Vends (; ; ) were a Balto-Finnic people that lived between the 12th to 16th centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in present-day north-central Latvia.

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A Rundling () is a form of circular village, now found only in Northern Germany, typical of settlements in the Germanic-Slav contact zone in the Early Medieval period. thumb|View of the Rundling Satemin, 3 km west of Lüchow in the Wendland The Rundling was a relatively common village form created by German law, but housing Slav farmers. It usually comprises a central, circular village green owned in common with individually owned farmsteads radiating out around it like the spokes of a wheel. The best examples are now only in a small area of Lower Saxony in Germany near to the town of Lüchow. N