(21382) Brietlingen - 133 Auf den Bergen

Brietlingen/Lüdershausen, The village belongs to the rural municipality of Scharnebeck. Large-scale tourism has so far avoided the Elbe valley meadows, but nature lovers and cyclists feel at home here: storks, frogs, and 150 breeding bird species live in this area. Along the cycle path from Hamburg to Schnackenburg, there are numerous popular breeding sites and traditional stork nests. The greatest technical attraction for miles around is the ship lift in the nearby village of Scharnebeck. It is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The ship lift operates on the Elbe Lateral Canal and lifts barges and passenger ships from the flat Elbe marshes to a height of 38 meters onto the geest ridge of the Lüneburg Heath.