Wendland
![In the north the Wendland is bounded by the flood plain of the Elbe](/Images/godic/202502/20/Elbe_bei_KM533,5_Schutschur5045.jpg")
![In the west the partially wooded Drawehn ridge dominates the Hanoverian Wendland; view from the Hoher Mechtin](/Images/godic/202502/20/HoherMechtinS-View5045.jpg")
![The Lüchower Landgraben and Grenzgraben depressions separate the Wendland in the south from the Altmark; view over the Flötgraben of Lemgow](/Images/godic/202502/20/Floetgraben5045.jpg")
![View of the rundling village of Satemin, 3 kilometres west of Lüchow](/Images/godic/202502/20/Rundling_Satemin_Panorama5046.jpg")
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.
In 2012 the state of Lower Saxony nominated the Rundling villages in Hanoverian Wendland for the German shortlist of candidates for future UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Subsequent decisions that will determine the success of this bid take place in 2013 at the conference of education ministers (Kultusministerkonferenz) and no earlier than 2017 by UNESCO.