Lower Saxony Hotels Germany

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is in northwest Germany, and is the second largest and fourth populous of Germany’ 16 states. From the north Lower Saxony borders on the North Sea, then clockwise, the states of Schleswig Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Hesse and North-Rhine Westphalia and the kingdom of the Netherlands. It borders more states than any other federal state. The state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony: the city of Bremen and the seaport, Bremerhaven. The northwestern part of Lower Saxony is a part of Frisia, called Ostfriesland, and lies on the North Sea: it includes seven East Frisian islands.

In the extreme west is the Emsland, a traditionally poor and little-populated area formerly dominated by swampy ground. The northern half of lower Saxony – the North German Plains is mainly flat except for low hills around Bremen geestland. At the south and southwest are parts of the Weserbergland – the German Central Highlands and the Harz mountains.

Lower Saxony’s major cities and economic centres are mainly situated in the central and southern areas, and these are Hanover, Braunschweig, Osnabruck, Wolfsburg, Salzgitter and Hildesheim. Gottingen and Oldenburg, near the northwest coast is another economic centre. The region in the northeast is called the Luneburger Heide (Heath) Germany’s largest heathland area and in medieval times rich due to salt mining.

To the north the river Elbe Lower Saxony from a number of other states. On the north sea coast of Lower Saxony, lies the German part of the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site. This dynamic landscape consists of an extended system of tideways and small tidal creeks running through tidal flats and bordering dry sands.

Blooming salt marshes in the dyke foreland and on islands alternate with white beaches and dunes. A nature-lover’s paradise as the Wadden Sea area provides temporary or permanent homes to over 10,000 animal and plant species, especially many migratory birds.