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Brunswick–Derneburg Railway
The Brunswick–Derneburg railway (german: Bahnstrecke Braunschweig–Derneburg) was the original line of the Brunswick State Railway Company (''Braunschweigische Landes-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', BLE). In the late 19th century it opened up the then rural area of the area now called Salzgitter in the German state of Lower Saxony. In the course of industrialisation, the lines were repeatedly rebuilt and realigned and the current lines emerged in the mid-20th century: *the Brunswick–Salzgitter-Lebenstedt railway and *the Brunswick–Salzgitter Bad railway. Original route The route that operated from 1886 to about 1938 started in Brunswick North station (''Braunschweiger Nordbahnhof''), the BLE’s centre of operations. It ran through the Brunswick districts of Gartenstadt, Geitelde and Thiede to the south. Near Hoheweg station there was a connection with a line from Wolfenbüttel. The line continued through Immendorf and Barum to the south and then turned to the west and the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon and Saterland Frisian are still spoken, albeit in declining numbers. Lower Saxony borders on (from north and clockwise) the North Sea, the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, , 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 of Bremen, the other its seaport, Bremerhaven (which is a semi-enclave, as it has a coastline). Lower Saxony thus borders more neighbours than any other single '. The state's largest cities are state capital Hanover, Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Oldenburg, Hildesheim, Salzgitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
