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Ce lle s hi st or y 20 21 Three times a day the sound of the glockenspiel can be heard At 11 am 1pm and 5pm five figures appear at the western facade of business premises in Zöllnerstraße corner Poststraße They are carved from wood and portray characters from local history To be seen are Hermann Löns Heath poet 1866 1914 Whilst hiking in the Heath he often visited the old ducal town of Celle Löns is regarded as the most prominent poet of the Luneburg Heath who observed flora and fauna as a hunter and an artist and described both embedded in atmospheric pictures in serious but also in cheerful animal and hunting stories Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty Poet 1748 1776 Although he only spent his youth at Celle s grammar school he has become an integral part of the town s history His sentimental melancholy poems are characterised by a subtle lyrical perception Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark 1751 1775 She was a sister of King George III of Great Britain In 1766 she married King Christian VII of Denmark Following an affair with the physician and Danish Minister of State Johann Friedrich Struensee she was divorced and from 1772 until her death in 1775 lived in exile in the Celle Palace A memorial in the French Garden is a reminder to the queen whose remains rest in the ducal crypt beneath the town church Guelphic Duke Ernest the Confessor 1497 1546 Following his academic years in Wittenberg he ruled the duchy jointly with his brother Otto from 1527 He became one of the most resolute Protestant rulers and in 1530 he signed jointly with his brother Francis Celle s Glockenspiel 21


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