Brunswick Land

Brunswick Land is a historical region in the Southeast of the German state of Lower Saxony, centred around the city of Braunschweig. It refers to the core territory of the historic Duchy of Brunswick and its successor, the Free State of Brunswick, which was disestablished in 1946.

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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Brunswick and Wolfsburg.

Brunswick

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Brunswick is a city of around 252,000 people in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.

Wolfsburg

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Wolfsburg is a city in the German state of Lower Saxony most known for hosting the headquarters of Volkswagen Group. While the castle that gave the city its name is as old as 1302, the city has been essentially created only in the 20th century around the original Volkswagen factory.

Salzgitter

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Salzgitter is a city in Lower Saxony. It is an important industrial city founded in the 1940s as an agglomeration of 7 towns and 29 districts.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Wolfenbüttel and Helmstedt.

Wolfenbüttel

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Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony. While people from outside Germany would recognise the city's name from a bottle of Jägermeister, it's also home to a number of timber-framed buildings as well as a famous library.

Helmstedt

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Helmstedt is a city in the Brunswick Land in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the second half of the 20th century, Helmstedt and its eastern neighboir Marienborn were best known as the largest checkpoint, Checkpoint Alpha, along the inter-German border during the division of Germany.