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67 unusual facts about Lower Saxony


2009 Team Speedway Junior European Championship

In Bockhorn, Germany on 18 July will be Ukraine, Czech Republic, Russia and host team Germany (2nd place).

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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.

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.

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.

Bad Laer

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

Benniehausen

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

Bevern

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

Black Stork

During the summer, the Black Stork is found from Eastern Asia (Siberia and China) west to Central Europe, reaching Estonia in the north, Poland, Lower Saxony and Bavaria in Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Greece in the south, with an outlying population in Spain and Portugal.

Breites Wasser

Biologische Station Osterholz, Verlag M.Simmering Lilienthal

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

Duingen

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

Ebersdorf

Ebersdorf, Lower Saxony, in the district of Rotenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Ehrenburg

Ehrenburg, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany

Etzenborn

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

Eyendorf

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

Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

In 1793, he created a foundation for poor relief in his capital Bevern.

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.

Halle, Bentheim

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

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.

Harsum

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

Heemsen

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

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.

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.

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.

Langendorf, Lower Saxony

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

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

Lutz Meyer-Goßner (born 10 July 1936 in Nienburg, Lower Saxony) is a German lawyer, jurist and law professor.

Marschacht

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

Marxen

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

Neu Darchau

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

Nordstemmen

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

Ovelgönne

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

Polabian language

The language left many traces to this day in toponymy; for example, Wustrow "Place on the island", Lüchow (Polabian: Ljauchüw), Sagard, Gartow etc.

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.

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.

Sattenhausen

Sattenhausen is a village in the north-western part of the Gleichen in the Göttingen district of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Scharnhorst

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

Steyerberg

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

Theodor Landscheidt

In 1983 he founded and financed the "Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity" in Lilienthal, near Bremen.

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

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.

Wenzendorf

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

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.

Wistedt

Wistedt is a municipality in the district of Harburg, 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.

Wustrow

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

Bezirksoberliga

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

Diemarden

Diemarden is a village in Gleichen in the Göttingen district of 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.

Eintracht Nordhorn

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

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).

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.

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-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.

Heidenau, Lower Saxony

Heidenau 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.

Kakenstorf

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

Karin Evers-Meyer

Karin Evers-Meyer (born 10 September 1949 in Neuenburg, Lower Saxony) is a German politician of the SPD.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wulfsen

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