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Wittingen
Wittingen () is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about northeast of Gifhorn, and southeast of Uelzen. Division of the town Wittingen consists of 27 districts: History The earliest identified record of Wittingen appears in a document dated 781 which defines the territorial borders of the Bishopric of Hildesheim. Another early mention dates from 803 during the reign of Charlemagne, this time identifying the borders of the newly established Bishopric of Halberstadt. Neither of these sources pins down a date for the foundation of Wittingen, however. During the Medieval period Wittingen was not merely a frontier point, but also a focus for traffic crossing into and out of the Altmark. The town was a trading point and an overnight stop for east-west commerce. Its significance was signaled in the ninth century when The Bishopric had the Church of St Stephen built. By the beginning of the thirteenth century Wittingen had been granted Town privilege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privatbrauerei Wittingen
Privatbrauerei Wittingen GmbH ("Wittingen Private Brewery") is a German brewing firm based in the Lower Saxon town of Wittingen. In 2013, the brewery had 104 employees and produced 432,550 hl of beer. According to the firm's statements it has been a family business since 1429, and is therefore one of the oldest private breweries in Germany. The firm has 100 employees and produces about of beer per year. It delivers to customers in North Germany within a radius of 150 km. In addition, there is a division that dispatches beer throughout Germany. At the creditors' meeting of another brewery, the Herrenhäuser Brewery, on 20 October 2010 it was agreed that it could be purchased by Privatbrauerei Wittingen. Neue Presse, October 20, 2010 (Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohrdorf
The village of Ohrdorf lies in the north German state of Lower Saxony in the district of Gifhorn and belongs to the town of Wittingen. The village takes its name from the river Ohre, which rises near the village and empties into the Elbe north of Magdeburg.Rudi Fischer: ''800 Jahre Calvörde – Eine Chronik bis 1991''. In East German times the state border ran down the centre of the Ohre not far from the village. The nearest settlement on the East German side was Haselhorst; but it was no longer accessible after the 1950s and the road link was not reopened until 1990. St. Laurence Church (''Laurentius-Kirche''), built in 1235, is a fieldstone church and has a Gothic polyptych from the year 1470. According to legend the altar was intended for a church in Wittingen. The wagon on which the altar was carried, broke a wheel in Ohrdorf, an incident that the villagers exploited in order to make the driver drunk and to take the altar for their own church. The pulpit dates to 1700, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radenbeck (Wittingen)
Radenbeck is a village in the town of Wittingen in the district of Gifhorn in the north German state of Lower Saxony. Location Radenbeck lies 13 kilometres southeast of the town of Wittingen and, like it, on the B 244 federal road. The parish extends from the River Ohre to the east, a tributary of the Elbe, it rises towards the west, and is on a gentle, northeast facing slope. The state border with Saxony-Anhalt runs along the Ohre 1.1 kilometres away. Sources * Edeltraud Hundertmark: ''Der Landkreis Gifhorn, II. Gemeindebeschreibungen mit statistischem Anhang. Teil 2: Mahrenholz bis Zicherie.'' (Die Deutschen Landkreise. Handbuch für Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Kultur. Reihe D: Die Landkreise in Niedersachsen Bd. 26, II), pp. 587–592. References Gifhorn (district) Wittingen Villages in Lower Saxony {{Gifhorn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knesebeck
Knesebeck is a village in Gifhorn (district) ( Lower-Saxony). It is home to an important industry (Butting Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG) in the region. Associations and Cultural Life For events of the various local clubs, see thcalendar of events Music ClubsSpielmannszug Jägercorps Knesebeck *Musikzug der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr Knesebeck Knesebecker Bläserkreis Sports Clubs VFL Knesebeck |
Bernd Fix
Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert. Biography After final secondary-school examination from Gymnasium Hankensbüttel in 1981, Bernd Fix studied Astrophysics and Philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg. He received his diplom for a work in the field of theoretical astrophysics in 1989. From 1987 to 1989 Fix was one of the spokespersons for the Chaos Computer Club and author for the " Hacker Bible 2". After the death of his friend Wau Holland (co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club) in 2001 Fix helped to establish the Wau Holland Foundation and serves as a founding member of the Board of Directors ever since. From 1998 Fix was living and working in Switzerland; he moved to Berlin in 2014. According to Fix, when the Wau Holland Foundation started official operations in 2003, he and other founding members were in contact with Julian Assange and in 2009 they decided to support WikiLe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Nieberg
Lars Nieberg (born 24 July 1963 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German equestrian. He participated in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in show jumping competition. Olympic record Nigberg participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal in Team Jumping, together with Franke Sloothaak, Ulrich Kirchhoff and Ludger Beerbaum."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Equestrian" ''databaseOlympics.com'', retrieved 5 September 2008 Nieberg again won a gold medal in Team Jumping at the in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Spitta
Friedrich Spitta (11 January 1852 – 7 June 1924) was a German Protestant theologian. Biography Spitta was born at Wittingen, Lower Saxony, the son of German hymn writer Karl Johann Philipp Spitta and brother of Philipp (music historian and musicologist best known for his biography of Johann Sebastian Bach). Friedrich studied at the universities of Göttingen and Erlangen, where he was a pupil of Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann.Spitta, Friedrich Adolf Wilhelm In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, , S. 712 f. In the course of time he became (1887) professor ordinarius and university preacher at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celle
Celle () is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the banks of the river Aller, a tributary of the Weser, and has a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, has a castle (''Schloss Celle'') built in the Renaissance and Baroque style and a picturesque old town centre (the ''Altstadt'') with over 400 timber-framed houses, making Celle one of the most remarkable members of the German Timber-Frame Road. From 1378 to 1705, Celle was the official residence of the Lüneburg branch of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (House of Welf) who had been banished from their original ducal seat by its townsfolk. Geography The town of Celle lies in the glacial valley of the Aller, about northeast of Hanover, northwest of Brunswick and south of Hamburg. With 71,000 inhabitants it is, next to Lüneburg, the largest Lower Saxon town between Hanover and Hamburg. Expansion The town cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gifhorn (district)
Gifhorn () is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The district is located at the border of Saxony-Anhalt and extends from the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath () in the north to the suburbs of Braunschweig and Wolfsburg in the south. The Aller River enters the district in the southeast, runs through the town of Gifhorn, is joined by the Ise and Oker river and leaves the district in the west. The southern terminus of the Elbe Lateral Canal at the Mittellandkanal is at Edesbüttel in the district. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the district of Helmstedt, the cities of Wolfsburg and Braunschweig, the districts of Peine, Hanover, Celle and Uelzen, and by the state of Saxony-Anhalt (districts of Altmarkkreis Salzwedel and Börde). The lowest point of the administrative district Gifhorn lies at the Aller near Müden ( above sea level). The highest point lies in the north of the district near Sprakensehl ( above sea level). History The district wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uelzen
Uelzen (; officially the ''Hanseatic Town of Uelzen'', German: ''Hansestadt Uelzen'', , Low German ''Ülz’n'') is a town in northeast Lower Saxony, Germany, and capital of the county of Uelzen. It is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, a Hanseatic town and an independent municipality. Uelzen is characterised by timber-framed architecture and also has some striking examples of North German brick Gothic. The county town earned pan-regional fame when Friedensreich Hundertwasser was selected to redesign the station: the final work of the celebrated Viennese artist and architect was ceremonially opened in 2000 as the Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen, and has since been a popular tourist magnet. The Polabian name for Uelzen is (spelled ''Wiltzaus'' in older German reference material), possibly derived from or (< Slavic *) 'alder'. Geography Locat ...
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