Salzgitter

Salzgitter is a city in Lower Saxony. It us an important industrial city founded in the 1940s as an agglomeration of 7 towns and 29 districts.

Understand
Salzgitter is a large town in the east of Lower Saxony, about 50 km from Hannover, the capital. It was founded in 1942 by the Nazi government, to serve as a new industrial center for steel production during the war, and stands out as one of only a few German cities to be founded in the 20th century, along with Eisenhüttenstadt and Wolfsburg. The town is made up of some 31 boroughs, spread over 25 km north to south and 19 km east to west. The population has stood at over 100,000 since gaining its status as a major town in Germany in the 1950s. Founded on its large deposits of iron ore, it continued producing steel up to the end of the 1980s. One of the shafts, Konrad, is now a major storage of low level radioactive waste.

By car
Salzgitter is easy to reach via the A39 from Braunschweig connecting to all points east and west via the A7 and A2.

By train
Rail connections are via 3 lines at 6 stations in and around the town. Connections available from Halle, Herzberg am Harz, Braunschweig and Hannover.

Go next

 * Wolfenbüttel
 * Braunschweig