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2 unusual facts about Friedland, Lower Saxony


Bundesautobahn 388

The A 388 was supposed to be the first part of the A 38, branching off the A 7 in the North of Göttingen, however plans were carried out differently and the A 38 now meets with the A 7 near Friedland.

Georg Ludolf Dissen

Georg Ludolf Dissen (December 17, 1784 – September 21, 1837) was a German classical philologist who was a native of Groß Schneen, a village in the District of Göttingen.


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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.

Bad Rothenfelde

Bad Rothenfelde is a municipality and health resort in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Battle of Friedland

Having thrown all of his pontoon bridges at or near the bottleneck of the village of Friedland, Benningsen had unwittingly trapped his troops on the west bank.

Bornum am Elm

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

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.

Garstedt

Garstedt is a municipality in the districty of Harburg in Lower Saxony in Germany

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.

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.

Heidenau, Lower Saxony

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

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.

Jonas Bretkūnas

Jonas Bretkūnas, Johann(es) Bretke, also known as Bretkus (born 1536 in Bammeln near Friedland – 1602 Königsberg) was a Lutheran pastor and was one of the best known developers of the written Lithuanian language.

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.

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.

Louis Bruyas

Louis Bruyas (24 April 1738, Lyon - 14 June 1807, Friedland, now known as Pravdinsk, near Kaliningrad, Russia), stage and pen-name Bursay, was a French actor and playwright.

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.

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.

Uslar

Uslar is a town and a municipality in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, in the south-western part of the district of Northeim, and in the south of the hills of Solling forest which are part of the Weser Uplands.

Vierhöfen

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

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.

Wenzendorf

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

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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