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Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony lies in northern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is located on the River Aller
Aller

The Aller is a river in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Weser river and 263 km in length.The river's source is located near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt....
 northeast of Braunschweig
Braunschweig

Braunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
 (Brunswick). Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn
Gifhorn (district)

Gifhorn is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany....
 and Helmstedt
Helmstedt (district)

Helmstedt is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the district of Wolfenb?ttel , the City of Braunschweig , the District of Gifhorn , the City of Wolfsburg and the State of Saxony-Anhalt ....
.

History
The city of Wolfsburg is very young, since it was planned by the Nazis
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 in order to build a town for the workers of the Volkswagen
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
 factories. It was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens ("City of the KdF Car") around the village of Hesslingen in the District of Gifhorn
Gifhorn (district)

Gifhorn is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany....
.






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Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony lies in northern Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen States of Germany of Germany. In rural areas Low German is still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining....
, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It is located on the River Aller
Aller

The Aller is a river in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Weser river and 263 km in length.The river's source is located near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt....
 northeast of Braunschweig
Braunschweig

Braunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
 (Brunswick). Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn
Gifhorn (district)

Gifhorn is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany....
 and Helmstedt
Helmstedt (district)

Helmstedt is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the district of Wolfenb?ttel , the City of Braunschweig , the District of Gifhorn , the City of Wolfsburg and the State of Saxony-Anhalt ....
.

History


The city of Wolfsburg is very young, since it was planned by the Nazis
Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
 in order to build a town for the workers of the Volkswagen
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
 factories. It was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens ("City of the KdF Car") around the village of Hesslingen in the District of Gifhorn
Gifhorn (district)

Gifhorn is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany....
. Kraft durch Freude
Kraft durch Freude

Kraft durch Freude was a large state-controlled leisure organization in the Third Reich, a part of the German Labour Front , the national Germany labour organization at that time....
 (abbreviated KdF and meaning "strength through joy") was the German state-controlled leisure organization; one of its projects was the KdF-Wagen, which would later be known as the VW Beetle. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 there were also jeeps, airplanes and other military equipment built, mainly by forced workers
Forced labor in Germany during World War II

Use of forced labor in Nazi Germany during World War II occurred on a large scale. It was an important part of the Economics of fascism#Political economy of Nazi Germany of conquered territories; it also contributed to the extermination of populations of German?occupied Europe....
 and POWs
Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war is a combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict....
 at these factories.

After World War II, in 1945, the city got its present name after the Wolfsburg castle located in the city, which was founded about 1300 on the bank of the Aller
Aller

The Aller is a river in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Weser river and 263 km in length.The river's source is located near Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt....
 river. Today there is another castle at the place, which was built after 1600. In 1951, Wolfsburg was separated from the District of Gifhorn, and became an urban district. In November 2003, Wolfsburg was renamed Golfsburg
Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig . Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt ....
 for one week to celebrate the 5th generation of the Volkswagen Golf
Volkswagen Golf

The 'Volkswagen Golf' is a compact car / small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates -- prominently as the 'Volkswagen Rabbit' in the United States and Canada , and as the 'Volkswagen Caribe' in Mexico ....
.

Main sights


Wolfsburg lacks historical buildings, and the sights include new attractions like the Autostadt
Autostadt

The Autostadt is a visitor attraction in the area around the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for each manufacturer in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where German customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide...
 (a huge open air museum about automobiles, owned and operated by Volkswagen
Volkswagen

Volkswagen Passenger Cars, also known as VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany and is the original as well as the largest brand by sales volume within the Volkswagen Group....
), a planetarium
Planetarium

File:Planetarium-Thursday-1-July-2008.JPGFile:Belgrade Planetarium theatre day.jpgFile:Belgrade Planetarium theatre night.jpgA planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation....
, the Phaeno Science Center
Phaeno Science Center

The Phaeno Science Center is a new interactive science center in Wolfsburg, Germany. Phaeno arose from progressive urban planning by the City of Wolfsburg....
, the largest hands-on science museum in Germany, and an excellent private art museum (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg) specialized on modern and contemporary art.

Until the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall was a physical separation barrier separating West Berlin from the German Democratic Republic , including East Berlin. The longer inner German border demarcated the border between East and West Germany....
, Wolfsburg was simply a place along the road to Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 just inside West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
.

With the opening in 2000 of Autostadt and that of Phaeno, as well as restaurants and a Ritz Carlton Hotel, tourism increased.

Sport

The most famous professional sports club in the city is VfL Wolfsburg
VfL Wolfsburg

VfL Wolfsburg is a Germany sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, that currently plays in the country's first division Bundesliga ....
, that was established in 1945. Hockey team EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams
EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams

The EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams are a member of the Germany professional ice hockey league Deutsche Eishockey-Liga. They play their games at Eisarena Wolfsburg in Wolfsburg....
 is also based in the city.

Twin towns

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    Luton

    Luton is a large town in the East of England England, 32 miles north of London. Historically, Luton is within the county of Bedfordshire, and since 1997, the town has been a unitary authority....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
    , since 1950
  • Marignane
    Marignane

    Marignane is a communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne departments of France in the Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur Regions of France in southern France....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    , since 1963
  • Province of Pesaro e Urbino
    Province of Pesaro e Urbino

    The Province of Pesaro and Urbino is a Provinces of Italy in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Pesaro. It also borders the state of San Marino....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    , since 1975
  • Halberstadt
    Halberstadt

    Halberstadt is a city in the Germany state of Saxony-Anhalt and the capital of the Harz .The city was severely damaged in World War II, but retains many important historic buildings and much of its ancient townscape....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    , since 1989
  • Changchun
    Changchun

    Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin Provinces of China, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, in the centre of the Songliao Plain....
    , People's Republic of China
    People's Republic of China

    The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
  • Togliatti
    Tolyatti

    Tolyatti or Togliatti is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Samara Oblast, Russia. It is the administrative center of Stavropolsky District....
    , Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    , since 1991
  • Bielsko-Biala
    Bielsko-Biala

    Bielsko-Biala is a city in southern Poland with 176,987 inhabitants .Bielsko-Biala is made of two former cities on opposite banks of the Biala River , Bielsko and Biala, Amalgamation in 1951....
    , Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
    , since 1998
  • Taubaté
    Taubaté

    Taubat? is a city in the State of S?o Paulo, in southeastern Brazil. Its strategic geographical location, between the two most important Brazilian cities , and between high, cold mountains and the Atlantic Ocean has helped the development of the city....
    , Brazil
    Brazil

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Associated cities:
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    Sarajevo

    Sarajevo is the Capital and largest urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 304,065 people in the four municipalities that make up the city proper, and an estimated urban area population of 419,030 people in the Sarajevo Canton ....
    , Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country on the Balkans peninsula of South Eastern Europe with an area of 51,129 square kilometres . Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the south, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Landlocked#Nearly landlocked, except for 26 kilometres of the Adriatic Sea coas...
     since 1985
  • Toyohashi, Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
     since 2002

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