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65 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.

Bad Laer

Bad Laer 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.

Beienrode

Beienrode-im-Gartetal is a village in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany.

Benniehausen

Benniehausen is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony.

Bergenite

Bergenite was first discovered at a now deserted mine dump of the SDAG Wismut shaft 254 in Mechelgrun, Vogtland Mining District, Saxony, Germany near the city of Bergen, Lower Saxony.

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).

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.

Duingen

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

Egestorf

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

Friedrich Kuhlau

Kuhlau was born on 11 September 1786 just south of Lüneburg in Uelzen district of Lower Saxony.

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.

Gelliehausen

Gelliehausen is a nucleated village just south of Benniehausen in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony with a population of 452 (as of 12 December 2005).

Georg Bühler

Bühler was born to Rev. Johann G. Bühler in Borstel, Hanover, attended high school in Hanover where he mastered Greek and Latin, then university as a student of theology and philosophy at Göttingen, where he studied classical philology, Sanskrit, Zend, Persian, Armenian, and Arabic.

Giesen

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

Gross Lengden

Gross Lengden is a village in the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany, about ten kilometers east of Göttingen.

Hagen, Osnabrück

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

Halle, Bentheim

Halle is a village in the Joint Community (Samtgemeinde) of Uelsen, in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony.

Heemsen

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

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.

Jean Pickering

In 1953, Jean Desforges broke a British record and became the first British woman to long jump over 20 feet, when jumping 6.10 m in Nienburg, 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.

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.

Lamme Valley Railway

The extension of the line between Bad Salzdetfurth and Bodenburg and to Gronau was opened on 7 November 1901.

Lamspringe

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

Landwehr, Lower Saxony

Landwehr is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim 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.

Nordstemmen

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

Raymond Viskanta

As the front lines of the Soviet-German conflict approached his family's home, his family left Lithuania in 1944 and, after almost six months of intermittent travel across Germany, settled near the city of Nienburg.

Regesbostel

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

Reinhausen

Reinhausen is the largest village in the municipality (Gemeinde) Gleichen in the district Göttingen, Germany.

Runic inscriptions

A silver-plated copper disk, originally part of a sword-belt, found at Liebenau, Lower Saxony with an early 5th-century runic inscription (mostly illegible, interpreted as possibly reading rauzwih) is classed as the earliest South Germanic (German) inscription known by the RGA (vol. 6, p. 576); the location of Liebenau is close to the boundary of the North Sea and South Germanic zones.

Scharnhorst

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

Schellerten

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

Seeburg

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

Sibbesse

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

Sibet Attena

After his death, a magnificent sandstone sarcophagus was erected for him in the church of Esens (now the St. Magnus Church) in 1473.

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.

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.

Verbandsliga

In North Rhine-Westphalia (Middle Rhine and Lower Rhine), Saxony, Thuringia, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Bavaria, the corresponding sixth tier is called the Landesliga, whereas the Landesliga is only a tier-seven league in most of the other German states.

Vierhöfen

Vierhöfen 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.

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.

Wulfsen

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


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.

Auetal

Auetal is a municipality in the district of Schaumburg, in 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.

David McAllister

After his parents moved to the small town of Bad Bederkesa in Lower Saxony in 1982, he went to the Lower Saxon Internatsgymnasium (boarding school) in Bederkesa, where he took his Abitur in 1989.

Duddenhausen

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

Freden

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

Frisian languages

speakers of Saterland Frisian in the Saterland region of Lower Saxony; the Saterland's marshy fringe areas have long protected Frisian speech there from pressure by the surrounding Low German and standard German.

Garstedt

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

Gerd Lüdemann

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

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.

Halvesbostel

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

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.

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.

LSV Ahlhorn

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

Lutterbeck

Lutterbeck is a small community about 4 km north of Moringen in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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.

Neuenfelde

In the West is the small quarter Cranz and the district of Stade of Lower Saxony In the south is the Neugraben-Fischbek quarter and the eastern bordern is to the quarter Francop.

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.

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.

Wenzendorf

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

White IT

Uwe Schünemann, then home secretary of the German state of Lower Saxony, initiated the initiative that was founded November 27, 2009 in Berlin.

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.