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73 unusual facts about Lower Saxony


Adenstedt

Adenstedt is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Ahnsen

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

Albert Brahms

Brahms was born on October 24, 1692 in Sanderahm, Sande, in what is now the Friesland district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Arte Sustenibile UNO

Patronage:
German Commission for UNESCO and the Ministers for the Environment of two German States: Baden Wuerttemberg and Lower 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.

Barßel

Barßel is a municipality in the district of Cloppenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Bevern

Bevern, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Holzminden, Lower Saxony

Bezirksoberliga

The Bezirksoberligas have also existed in other states of Germany, like Hesse and Lower Saxony.

Bischhausen

Bischhausen is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony with a population of 366 (as of December 2010).

Breites Wasser

Biologische Station Osterholz, Verlag M.Simmering Lilienthal

Christian Heinrich Postel

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

Diekholzen

Diekholzen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in 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.

Drage

Drage, Lower Saxony, in the district of Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Drestedt

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

Etzenborn

Etzenborn is a village in the Lower Saxony Gemeinde Gleichen, Germany.

Freden

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

Friedrich Bouterwek

Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek (15 April 1766 – 9 August 1828), German philosopher and critic, was born to a mining director at Oker, today a district of Goslar in Lower Saxony, and studied law and philology under Christian Gottlob Heyne and Johann Georg Heinrich Feder at the University of Göttingen.

Friedrich Oltmanns

Friedrich Oltmanns (11 July 1860, Oberndorf – 13 December 1945) was a German phycologist.

Garlstorf

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

Garstedt

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

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (July 5, 1795 – November 23, 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg.

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.

Gödenstorf

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

Halvesbostel

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

Hans-Ola Ericsson

For example, his work "The Four Beast' Amen", for organ and electronics, begins with the organ in dialogue with recordings of organs from Hamburg, Stade, Norden, Cappel and Lüdingworth.

Harmstorf

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

Heemsen

It is situated approximately 8 km northeast of Nienburg, and 25 km south of Verden.

Heidenau, Lower Saxony

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

Holle

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

Ischenrode

Ischenrode is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen, Göttingen, Braunschweig Bezirk (district), Lower Saxony, Germany.

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (August 30, 1745, Erfurt – August 29, 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781 inspired Schröter to pursue astronomy more seriously, and he resigned his post and became chief magistrate and district governor of Lilienthal.

Kakenstorf

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

Karl August Wittfogel

Karl August Wittfogel was born 6 September 1896 at Woltersdorf, in Lüchow, Province of Hanover.

Klein Lengden

Klein Lengden is a village in the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about eight to ten kilometers south-east of Göttingen.

Königsmoor

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

Konstantin Rausch

He decided, he was not mature enough for such a big club and instead joined another local side, SV Nienhagen.

Landwehr, Lower Saxony

Landwehr is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Langendorf, Lower Saxony

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

Lehe

Lehe, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Emsland, Lower Saxony "

Marschacht

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

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.

Moisburg

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

Neu! 4

It was recorded and mixed between October 1985 and April 1986 at Grundfunk Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, Dinerland-Lilienthal Studio, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Michael Rother Studio, Forst, Germany.

Nordstemmen

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

Oberlangen

Oberlangen is a municipality in district (Landkreis) Emsland, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), north-western Germany.

Otto VIII, Count of Hoya

He was buried in the church of St. Martin in Nienburg; his tomb is lcoated in the hall below the tower.

Ovelgönne

Ovelgönne is a municipality in the district of Wesermarsch, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Regesbostel

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

Reppenstedt

Reppenstedt is a municipality and the administrative centre of the Samtgemeinde Gellersen within the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Rheden, Lower Saxony

Rheden is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Scharnhorst

Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany

Seeburg

Seeburg, Lower Saxony, in the district of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Söhlde

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

Stalag XI-C

Stalg XI-C Bergen-Belsen, initially called Stalag 311, was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp located near the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony.

Staufenberg

Staufenberg, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Staufenberg, Lower Saxony

Staufenberg is the southernmost municipality of the district of Göttingen, and of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Steinhorst

Steinhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony

Steyerberg

It is situated approximately 15 km southwest of Nienburg, and 30 km north of Minden.

Toppenstedt

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

Vorwerk

Vorwerk, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the Rotenburg district, Lower Saxony

Walburgis, Countess of Rietberg

After the birth of John Edzard, her youngest child and only son, Walburgis needed tot recover and moved from Esens to Wittmund.

Countess Walburgis of Rietberg (1555 or 1556, Rietberg – 26 May 1586, Esens) was 1565-1576 and 1584-1586 Countess of Rietberg.

Water board

Most water boards are established on the legal basis of the federal law on water and soil associations (Gesetz über Wasser- und Bodenverbände), complemented by state laws in several German states (Länder) such as in Lower Saxony where water boards are in charge of coastal protection.

Wienhausen Abbey

According to the Wienhausen town chronicle, this was the relocation of a monastic foundation made 10 years previously on a site at Nienhagen several kilometers away, which was moved because it had been built on marshland.

Wildeshausen

Wildeshausen (Low Saxon: Wilshusen) is a town and the capital of the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Wöllmarshausen

Wöllmarshausen is a village in the Garte valley in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany.

Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony

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

Wulfsen

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

Wustrow

Wustrow, Lower Saxony, a town in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, Lower Saxony


89.0 RTL

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.

Arboretum Habichtsborn

The Arboretum Habichtsborn, also known as the Arboretum Staufenberg, is an arboretum located at Forstamtsstraße 6, Escherode, several kilometers southeast of Staufenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Asendorf, Harburg

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

Bornum am Elm

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

Carsten Müller

As a student in 1986 Müller joined the Young Union and from 1989 to 1990 was the CDU Chairman of the Student Union in Lower Saxony.

Countess Marie of Hochberg

Princess Marie of Hanover (German: Marie Viktoria Luise Hertha Friederike, Prinzessin von Hannover, Prinzessin von Großbritannien und Irland, Herzogin zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg), Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 26 November 1952 in Pattensen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is the wife of Count Michael of Hochberg.

Dohren

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

Duddenhausen

Duddenhausen is a village in the municipality of Bücken, district of Nienburg, 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.

Eintracht Nordhorn

Eintracht Nordhorn is a German association football club from the city of Nordhorn, Lower Saxony.

Emmerke

Emmerke is a part of the municipality of Giesen in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany.

Encrinus

In Lower Saxony, they were called Sonnenräder ("sun wheels"), while in Thuringia and Hesse they were called Bonifatiuspfennige ("Saint Boniface's pennies").

Europasaurus

This specimen and all others referred to the taxon were collected from "bed 93" at the Langenberg quarry, Oker near Goslar, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen).

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.

Hagen, Osnabrück

Hagen (also Hagen am Teutoburger Wald) is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, 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-Peter Mayer

Hans-Peter Mayer (born on 5 May 1944 in Riedlingen) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony with the conservative Christian-Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and is a member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Heinrich Feisthauer

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

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.

LSV Ahlhorn

Lufttwaffensportverein Ahlhorn was a short-lived German football club from the town of Ahlhorn near Oldenburg, Lower Saxony.

Michael Borgstede

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

Neu Darchau

Neu Darchau is a municipality in the district Lüchow-Dannenberg, 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.

Spechtshorn

Spechtshorn is a village in the municipality of Hohne in the collective municipality of Lachendorf in Celle district, in the German state of Lower Saxony.

Ursula von Rydingsvard

Ursula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Lower Saxony, then Nazi Germany, is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years.

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.

VfL Herzlake

VfL Herzlake is a German association football club from the village of Herzlake, Lower Saxony.

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.

Wilhelm Wachsmuth

Wilhelm Gottfried Wachsmuth (born 28 December 1784 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany — died 23 January 1866 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany) was a German historian and academic.

Wistedt

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