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unusual facts about Freiburg, Lower Saxony


Christian Heinrich Postel

Christian Heinrich Postel (11 October 1658, Freiburg/Elbe - 22 March 1705, Hamburg) was a German jurist, epic poet and opera librettist.


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While it is licensed to Saxony-Anhalt, the exposed position of the Brocken at 3,743 ft allows the channel to cover large parts of central Germany, including Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony.

Auetal

Auetal is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Benjamin Herder

When its appearance was made possible and its issue was begun in 1847 under the direction of Benedict Welte, exegete of Tübingen, and Heinrich Joseph Wetzer, Orientalist of Freiburg.

Bornum am Elm

Bornum am Elm is a village of about 850 inhabitants in the city of Königslutter am Elm, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Crossair Europe

Crossair Europe (European Continental Airways) was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland.

Diemarden

Diemarden is a village in Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Dissen

Dissen am Teutoburger Wald is an old charactered town in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Dohren

Dohren is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Egestorf

Egestorf is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Eilbek

The Bundesstraße 75 leads through the quarter, connecting the city Lübeck in the North with Delmenhorst in Lower Saxony.

Freden

Freden is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Freiburg–Colmar railway

At Volgelsheim the railway recommences, with a link to the nearby Rhine port and the Chemin de Fer Touristique du Rhin heritage railway.

Gau Eastern Hanover

In 1946 the Control Commission for Germany - British Element (CCG/BE) reconstituted the Province of Hanover as the State of Hanover and later the same year it merged with three smaller neighbouring reconstituted German states to form the new state of Lower Saxony within the British Zone of Occupation.

Gerd Lüdemann

Gerd Lüdemann (born 5 July 1946 in Visselhövede, Lower Saxony), is a German New Testament scholar.

Gerhard Ritter

Gerhard Georg Bernhard Ritter (6 April 1888 in Bad Sooden-Allendorf – 1 July 1967 in Freiburg) was a nationalist-conservative German historian, who served as a professor of history at the University of Freiburg from 1925 to 1956.

Giesen

Giesen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Giuseppe Arighini

He built the castle theatre (Schloßtheater) (1670–1674) in Celle Castle in the town of Celle in the German state of Lower Saxony for Duke George William of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Gödenstorf

Gödenstorf is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hagen, Osnabrück

Hagen (also Hagen am Teutoburger Wald) is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Halvesbostel

Halvesbostel is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hanoverian Western Railway

The Hanoverian Western Railway was a line from the Löhne to Emden, built by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways in the mid-19th century in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover in the modern German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Enzensberger studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Erlangen, Freiburg and Hamburg, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1955 for a thesis about Clemens Brentano's poetry.

Heinrich Feisthauer

AFter the expulsion of ethnic Germans from Silesia in 1946, he arrived in Esperke, Lower Saxony.

Holzminden internment camp

Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located on the outskirts of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918.

Jean-Guihen Queyras

In September 2005, he premiered Bruno Mantovani's concerto with the Saarbrücken Radio Sinfonie Orchestra and Phillippe Schoeller's Wind's Eyes with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg.

Juliette Schoppmann

Juliette Schoppmann (born 18 March 1980 in Stade, Lower Saxony) is a German singer, who came to fame as the runner-up of the first season of the television show, Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, the German version of American/Pop Idol.

Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics

The institute has one solar telescope on the Schauinsland Mountain near Freiburg and, in collaboration with other institutions, uses solar telescopes of the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain.

Königsburg

They lie at a height of 460 metres above sea level on the edge of a wooded plateau and offer a good view of the Wurmberg and the Brocken, the highest mountains in Lower Saxony and the Harz respectively.

Langeleben

Langeleben is a historical location at 260 m above sea level, in the northern part of the Elm ridge in Lower Saxony, Germany and today belongs to the nearby town of Königslutter am Elm.

Langendorf, Lower Saxony

Langendorf is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Marvin Schindler

Schindler's leadership of Wayne State's Junior Year in Freiburg and Junior Year in Munich study-abroad programs (he served as director of both from 1975 to 1993) earned him the Bundesverdienstkreuz, erster Klasse, Germany's highest civilian honor.

Michael Borgstede

Michael Borgstede (born December 27, 1976 at Thuine in Lower Saxony), is a German harpsichordist and organist.

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Nicole Brandebusemeyer

Nicole Brandebusemeyer (born 9 October 1974 in Georgsmarienhütte, Lower Saxony) is a retired German football defender.

Nordstemmen

Nordstemmen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Pöhlde Abbey

Pöhlde Abbey was a Premonstratensian (previously Benedictine) monastery at Pöhlde, now a small village and part of the town of Herzberg am Harz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Risteard De Hindeberg

He pursued further studies in Germany at the universities of Greifswald and Freiburg, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Philosophy.

Rotenburg an der Wümme

Rotenburg an der Wümme (until May 1969: Rotenburg in Hannover) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Sibbesse

Sibbesse is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Toppenstedt

Toppenstedt is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Vierhöfen

Vierhöfen is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Volker Ignaz Schmidt

Since 1995 he has studied composition privately with Franklin Cox (University of Maryland, USA), Bernd Asmus (Freiburg, Germany), Jan Kopp (Stuttgart, Germany) and John Palmer (composer) (University of Hertfordshire, England).

Volker Wieker

Volker Wieker (born 1 March 1954 in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony) is the Chief of Staff (Generalinspekteur) of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.

Waddeweitz

Waddeweitz is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Wiesloch-Walldorf station

The Karlsruhe—Heidelberg section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened on 15 April 1843 as part of the construction of the Baden Mainline from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel, which was initially built to 1600 mm broad gauge.

Wistedt

Wistedt is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Wolfgang Hackbusch

Wolfgang Hackbusch (born 24 October 1948 in Westerstede, Lower Saxony) is a German mathematician, known for his pioneering research in multigrid methods and later hierarchical matrices, a concept generalizing the fast multipole method.

Wulfsen

Wulfsen is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.


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