Editing Old Salt Route (section)

===Lüneburg Heath===
[[File:Lüneburger Heide 109.jpg|thumb|The Lüneburg Heath]]
{{Main|Lüneburg Heath}}

Once, the area around Lüneburg was covered in lush woodlands. But because the medieval salt works depended on wood as a fuel used in boiling and purifying the saline water from which the salt was obtained, much of the forest was cut down. [[Calluna|Heather]] then covered area, helping it to become a landscape that now attracts thousands of visitors when that foliage is in full bloom.<ref name="Germany">{{Cite web |title=Old Salt Road – Ancient ''white gold'' trading route |url=http://www.cometogermany.com/ENU/about_germany/master_tlfstrasse-id1-fs2.htm |website=Germany National Tourist Board}}</ref>