Here you will find an overview of the main articles in English Wikipedia connected with the German state of Lower Saxony.
Lower Saxony lies in north-western Germany and is the country's second largest federal state. It is named after a historical province that emerged during the Middle Ages; its capital is Hanover.
Much of northern Lower Saxony is a vast lowland of heath and bog, part of the North German Plain. It includes the Lüneburg Heath - an expanse of heather, bracken, pine, bog and fields interspersed with small towns and villages - that gained its wealth, historically, from the salt trade centred on Lüneburg, but was also the site of the surrender of North Germany at the end of the Second World War. Today, much of the area is a nature park, but retains its military connexions, being home to the largest military training area in Europe. To the northwest were once great marshes by the North Sea, but these have largely been reclaimed and are famous for cattle and horse rearing. Off the North Sea coast is a string of islands, popular with holidaymakers, known as the East Frisians.
In the south are some of the most fertile plains in Europe: the Börde around Hanover and the north Harz Foreland. Away to the southwest the Weser Uplands form a series of knife-edge ridges, and whaleback hills sliced by the River Weser. And in the far southeast, the Harz has Lower Saxony's only mountains. Formerly the greatest silver mining area in Europe, the area is now a popular tourist destination.
Featured article: The Low Saxon house (Niedersachsenhaus) is the traditional name for the old timber-framed, hall farmhouse which is typical of the older farmsteads in Lower Saxony, but was also common across much of Northern Germany and even northern parts of Holland. Also referred to as the Low German house or Lower Saxon hall house (Niedersächsisches Hallenhaus) or, in German, as a Fachhallenhaus (bay and hall house), this type of farmhouse construction emerged during the 13th to 15th centuries. It is essentially an 'all-in-one' house (Einhaus), whereby the living accommodation, livestock stalls and crop storage is all combined under one roof. Today the Lower Saxon house is still very much part of the scene in many of the villages of North Germany and the Lower Rhine as well as the Westphalian region. More...
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