# Lopau

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The **Lopau** is a river in the [Lüneburg Heath](/source/L%C3%BCneburg_Heath) in North [Germany](/source/Germany). It is a right tributary of the [Luhe](/source/Luhe_(Ilmenau)).

## Course

The Lopau rises with two headstreams from the ponds known as the Süderteichen and the Westerteichen in the Westergrund in the [Munster North Training Area](/source/Munster_North_Training_Area), near the abandoned village of Lopau, that lies within the borough of [Munster](/source/Munster_(%C3%96rtze)). In its upper reaches the Lopau flows through uncultivated grassland, which is becoming increasingly afforested by alders and invaded by the wooded area of the Raubkammer. In [Bockum](/source/Bockum_(Rehlingen)), a village in the municipality of [Rehlingen](/source/Rehlingen) in [Lüneburg District](/source/Landkreis_L%C3%BCneburg), it picks up the [Ehlbeck](/source/Ehlbeck), a left-hand tributary. East of [Amelinghausen](/source/Amelinghausen) the river is impounded by a dam by the [B 209 federal road](/source/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe_209) to create the tourist lake of [Lopausee](/source/Lopausee). North of [Amelinghausen](/source/Amelinghausen) the Lopau discharges into the [Luhe](/source/Luhe_(Ilmenau)) near the gravesite of [Oldendorfer Totenstatt](/source/Oldendorfer_Totenstatt) by [Oldendorf (Luhe)](/source/Oldendorf_(Luhe)). From source to mouth the river is 12.7 km.

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