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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).

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.

Auetal

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

Beienrode

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

Bernshausen

Bernshausen is a village in the Gemeinde Seeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, with a population of about 590.

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).

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

Christian Heinrich Postel

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

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.

Drestedt

Drestedt is a municipality in the district of Harburg, in 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

Egestorf

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

Ehrenburg

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

Erhard Kietz

Dr. Erhard Karl Kietz (* August 22, 1909 in Leipzig Germany — April 6, 1982 in Blütlingen (Wustrow, Lower Saxony) Germany) was a German-born physicist, who researched frequency constancy of video signals.

Friedrich Oltmanns

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

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.

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.

Halle, Bentheim

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

Halvesbostel

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

Hanover school of architecture

Hase's students were not only senior engineering officials and well-known architects, but they also taught at trade schools, for example in Eckernförde, Hamburg, and Nienburg.

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.

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.

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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.

Jühnde

Jühnde is a municipality in the south of the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Kakenstorf

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

Lamspringe

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

LK II

A surviving example can be seen at the Deutsches Panzermuseum at Munster, Germany, and both strv m/21 and strv m/21-29 was displayed at the Axvall Tank Museum in Sweden.

Lutz Meyer-Goßner

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

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.

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.

Reppenstedt

Reppenstedt is a municipality and the administrative centre of the Samtgemeinde Gellersen within the district of Lüneburg 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

Seeburger See

Also known as Auge des Eichsfelds (Eye of the Eichsfeld), the shallow 86.5-hectare (0.865 km2) lake is fed in the west by the Aue creek at Seeburg and drained to the east in Bernshausen by the same creek and lies at an elevation of 157 m AMSL.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

Ahnsen

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

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.

Bernhardus Varenius

Bernhardus Varenius (Bernhard Varen) (1622, Hitzacker, Lower Saxony – 1650) was a German geographer.

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.

Encrinus

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

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.

Frohnau

The receiving tower on the West German side was in Gartow, Lower Saxony.

Gerd Lüdemann

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

Gross Lengden

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nicole Brandebusemeyer

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

Ostróda

The knights named the new town Osterode after Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony, Germany (now a sister city with Ostróda).

Schellerten

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

Sibbesse

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

Söhlde

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

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.

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.