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Brunswick Land

Brunswick Land is a historical region in the Southeast of the state of , centred around the city of . 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.

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is a city of around 250,500 people in the federal-state of , . It is north of the mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the via the rivers Aller and Weser.

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is a city in the state of 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.

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is a city in . 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.

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is a town in . 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.

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

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is a town in , , capital of the . It is situated on the river and the Mittellandkanal, approximately 25 km west of , 27 km northeast of , and 40 km east of .

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am Elm is a town in the district of in , .

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is a town of about 11,000 inhabitants in the district of Helmstedt in , . It is near the border with Saxony-Anhalt, on the southeastern rim of the Elm hill range.

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The is a nature park in southwest , east of Brunswick in central . It is dominated by the forested hill ranges of the Elm, Lappwald and Dorm as well as the region known as the Helmstedt Bowl.

Brunswick Land

Latitude of center
52.2036° or 52° 12′ 13″ north
Longitude of center
10.6477° or 10° 38′ 52″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1408954738
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Wiki­data ID
Q901914
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Slovenian—“Brunswick Land” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “布朗斯韦尔”
  • Czech: “Brunšvicko”
  • German: “Braunschweiger Land”
  • Italian: “Regione di Braunschweig”
  • Macedonian: “Брауншвајшки крај”
  • Slovenian: “Braunschweiger Land”
  • Slovenian: “Braunschweigovska dežela”

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