Lower Saxony is a Lot More Interesting than You Think

In this video you can find seven little known facts about Lower Saxony. Keep watching and subscribe, as more episodes will follow! You can now support this channel via Patreon, by accessing the link bellow. Thank you! www.patreon.com/7facts Learn, Share, Subscribe US States & Territories    • US States & Territories   206 Countries in One Series    • 7 Facts from around the World (all vi...   Social Media: twitter.com/Sebastian2Go www.facebook.com/official7facts ------------------------------------------------ More information about the video content bellow: 1. Lower Saxony s a German state situated in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with 47,624 km2, and fourth-largest in population (7.9 million) among the 16 Länder federated as the Federal Republic of Germany. 2. Lower Saxony’s capital Hanover looks back on a long history as a city of international importance. Today the city enjoys a great reputation as one of the major trade fair hubs. In 2000, Hanover Fair hosted the World Exposition EXPO2000. Each year in spring, Hanover Fair hosts CeBIT, the largest annual IT trade show. 3. Carmaker Volkswagen is headquartered in the city of Wolfsburg. There is a saying that goes, "when Wolfsburg coughs, Lower Saxony catches the flu." More than 50 million VWs have already come off the assembly line there. A quarter of industrial jobs are tied to the automobile industry and its subcontractors. 4. From 1714 to 1837, Hanover was by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, under their title of the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg (later described as the Elector of Hanover). 5. Trace the footsteps of the iconic Pied Piper at Hamelin. Yes, the town, or for that matter, the story of the Pied Piper, were not mere products of the Brothers Grimm’s imagination but were inspired by real events. Locals would be only too happy to share with you legends that seem to indicate that one fateful day many centuries ago, all the children of the town did disappear. All over town, you will find tributes to the beloved fairy tale in the form of souvenirs, sculptures, graphics and even themed edibles. 6. The tall tales surrounding a character named Baron Münchausen are based on a real person who was born in Lower Saxony (Bodenwerde) in 1720. Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen was a self-declared adventurer and daredevil. After reportedly fighting in several wars, he retired at the young age of 30 and resorted to storytelling and hunting. The 1780s saw the publication of increasingly exaggerated stories and anecdotes about his life in both English and German. 7. A product presented at the 1893 World Exhibition in Chicago was to become one of Germany’s most well-known branded food products — the Leibniz Keks. The entrepreneurial muse took hold of Hermann Bahlsen when he was working in the sugar trade in Great Britain. He returned to Germany, more precisely to Hanover and, in 1889, founded the “Hannoversche Cakesfabrik H. Bahlsen. More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hanover germanfoods.org/german-food-facts/lower-saxony/ Music: Teknoaxe - Aerobatics in Slow Motion    • Aerobatics in Slow Motion - Synthwave...   Download Music: teknoaxe.com/Link_Code_3.php?q=1496 Images: pxhere.com/en/photo/973529 By ChristianSchd - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31718313 By Photo: Andreas Praefcke - Self-published work by AndreasPraefcke, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111097 By SodacanThis W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10952376 Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2269770 Von August von Wille - Распе. Мюнхаузенъ. С.-Петербургъ. Изданiе книгопродавца Ф. А. Битепажа. 1872, Gemeinfrei, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7556488 Von Der ursprünglich hochladende Benutzer war Rainer Zenz in der Wikipedia auf Deutsch - Übertragen aus de.wikipedia nach Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2502235 Intro Creator: Pushed to Insanity pushedtoinsanity.com/portfolio-item/free-2d-outro-…

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