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Tourist Spot Attractions In Lower Saxony

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Lower Saxony is a German state situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second largest state by land area, with 47,624 square kilometres , and fourth largest in population among the sixteen Länder federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken; however, the number of speakers is declining. Lower Saxony borders on the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony, one being the city ...
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Tourist Spot Attractions In Lower Saxony

  • 1. Burg Bentheim Bad Bentheim
    Bentheim Castle is an early medieval hill castle in Bad Bentheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. The castle is first mentioned in the 11th century under the name binithem.
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  • 2. Neuer Leuchtturm Borkum
    Borkum Großer Light , also known as Borkum Neuer Light , is an active lighthouse on the island of Borkum, Leer district, state of Lower Saxony, Germany. At a height of 197 feet it is the twenty-fourth tallest traditional lighthouse in the world, as well as the third tallest brick lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse is located at the west side of the Borkum island. It is the landfall light for the Ems estuary and the port of Emden, serving also as a day mark. This lighthouse also bares a directional continuous light at a height of 151 feet to three different directions with the colors white, red and green. The tower was built in the summer of 1879 in a record time of six months, following a fire at the old lighthouse. The site is open, and the tower is open to the public daily April th...
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  • 3. Meyer Werft Papenburg
    The Meyer Werft GmbH & Co. KG is one of the major German shipyards, headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is one of world's leading builders of luxury passenger ships. Altogether about 700 ships of different types have been built at the yard. Its Dockhalle 2 is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the building with the fifth-largest usable space in the world. Meyer Werft has been owned and managed by the Meyer family for seven generations. Since 1997, it has been part of the Meyer Neptun Group together with Neptun Werft in Rostock. In 2014 the company added the Turku shipyard in Finland to the group. The shipyard is an anchor on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.Five of the ten largest cruise ships ...
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  • 8. Kaiserpfalz Goslar
    The term Kaiserpfalz or Königspfalz refers to a number of castles and palaces across the Holy Roman Empire that served as temporary, secondary seats of power for the Holy Roman Emperor in the Early and High Middle Ages. The term was also used more rarely for a bishop who, as a territorial lord , had to provide the king and his entourage with board and lodging, a duty referred to as Gastungspflicht.
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  • 9. Hannover City Hall (Rathaus) Hannover
    Hanover or Hannover is the capital and largest city of the German federal state of Lower Saxony, and its 535,061 inhabitants make it the thirteenth largest city of Germany, as well as the third-largest city of Northern Germany after Hamburg and Bremen. The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine and its tributary Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city of the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen, and Bremen. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg , the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , the Kingdom of Hanover , the Province of Hanover of the Kingdom of Prussia...
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  • 14. Hameln Old Town Hameln
    Glückel of Hameln was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Written in her native tongue of Yiddish over the course of thirty years, her memoirs were originally intended to be an ethical will for her children and future descendants. Glückel's diaries are the only known pre-modern Yiddish memoirs written by a woman. The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln provide an intimate portrait of German-Jewish life in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries and have become an important source for historians, philologists, sociologists, literary critics, and linguists.
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