Worthy of mention is the Holdenstedt Castle Museum (Museum Schloss Holdenstedt) which is the town's local history museum. Permanent exhibitions include furniture from the Middle Ages to art nouveau, a glass collection, works by the animal painter, Georg Wolf, and archaeological finds from the local area. Economy The largest sugarbeet refinery in the Nordzucker group is in Uelzen. It processes approximately 20,000 tons of sugarbeet per day. Further big employers in the town are Nestlé Schöller or the dairy Uelzena. Bituminous roofing felts and insulation material is being manufactured by C. Hasse & Sohn, a leading producer with experience since 1872. Infrastructure Railway station The Hundertwasserbahnhof is a railway station in Uelzen at the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park in northeastern Lower Saxony. The cities within easy reach by rail are Hamburg, Hannover, Lüneburg, Celle, Braunschweig, Bremen and Berlin. The original station was renovated for Expo 2000 following plans by the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. An "environmentally, culturally oriented" station, Uelzen station was renamed as 'Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen' (Hundertwasser-Bahnhof Uelzen). Today it is one of the town's popular tourist attractions. Courts Uelzen has at its disposal an Amtsgericht (roughly, a district court), which belongs to the state court region of Lüneburg and the Oberlandesgericht (High State Court) region of Celle. Education Schools in Uelzen include the Herzog-Ernst-Gymnasium, Lessing-Gymnasium, Oberschule-Uelzen, Lucas-Backmeister-Schule, Sternschule, Berufsbildene Schulen I and II and 6 elementary schools. Health and medicine Uelzen has one hospital (HELIOS Klinikum), two clinics that specialises in different areas (Klinik Veerßen and Psychiatrische Klinik Uelzen) and some pharmacies and dentists. Notable people Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497–1546), Prince of Lüneburg, ruled the Lüneburg-Celle subdivision of the Welf family's Brunswick-Lüneburg duchy from 1520 until his death Francis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1508–1549), ruled the newly founded Duchy of Gifhorn from Gifhorn Castle Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815), geographer and biologist Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832), court composer to the Danish royal court Georg Wilding (1790–1841), royal-Neapolitan envoy in St. Petersburg Theodore Kaufmann (1814–1896), American painter Walter Wallmann (1932–2013), politician (CDU) Angelika Volquartz (born 1946), politician (CDU), 2003–2009 Mayor of Kiel Rebecca Harms (born 1956), politician (The Greens) Mola Adebisi (born 1973), TV presenter (VIVA) André Doehring (born 1973), musicologist See also List of subcamps of Neuengamme. Notes References Official German list of concentration camps Verzeichnis der Konzentrationslager und ihrer Außenkommandos Johann Parum Schultze; Reinhold Olesch (Hrsg.): Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores