Germany: All about Lower Saxony Quiz

Answer: Wurmberg

Wurmberg is approximately 3,200 feet high and is the second-highest mountain of the Harz mountain range.

Wurmberg has the spa town and health resort, Braunlage, located at the foot of it. The town gets much of its economy from the skiing business the mountain makes possible in the snow. Snowboarding is also popular on this mountain.

Answer: North Rhine-Westphalia

These hills of Germany include Dörenberg, a hill in Lower Saxony, which is the highest part of the centre section of the Teutoburg Forest.

The Teutoburg Forest is part of the north section of the Central Uplands, which stretches east to west across the country, as one of the three major nature regions of Germany.

The Battle of Teutoburg Forest is widely regarded as one of the most significant defeats of Roman history. It abruptly stopped Emperor Augustus' expansion plans, which had been successful up until this battle. Arminius, the leader of the Germanic tribes who fought the Romans, became a hero figure after he was victorious. Constructed in the 1800s, there is a large memorial monument dedicated to him south-west of the city of Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, called "Hermannsdenkmal (or "Hermann's Monument").

Answer: Osnabrück

The Bucksturm was built in the early 13th century and was originally a watch tower. It became used as a prison in the medieval period, and when witch hunting was becoming more and more frequent by the 16-17th centuries, the prison became was used as a torture chamber. Today, the building functions as an exhibition on witch hunting.

Osnabrück is located on the river Hase, between the northern extremity of the Teutoburg Forest and the Wiehen Hills, which stretch between Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Answer: Rammelsberg

Rammelsberg is around 2,100 feet high, situated in the north of the Harz mountain range. The mines were in continuous use from the 11th century until the 1980s.

Rammelsberg mine helped shape the city of Goslar, which until 1253 was the residence of German royalty. Cistercian monks established in the mine the Upper Harz mining water management system, creating one of the largest pre-industrial waterway facilities in the world.

In 1992 what was once Rammelsberg Mine (and the nearby old town of Goslar) was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List.

Answer: Brunswick

Schloss Richmond, or Richmond Castle, and its surrounding park was built in the late 1700s. In Baroque style, the design of the palace and park were based on Augusta's home in Richmond Park, near London, England. It is situated near the Oker river, in the south of Brunswick.

The architect was Carl Christoph Wilhelm Fleischer, who was also involved in the re-building of Dankwarderode Castle - a home for Dukes of Brunswick for centuries - for one of the Dukes of Brunswick, Ferdinand, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (later Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, from 1735). This is also located in the city, but is now a museum.

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand was Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and was in power from 1780-1806.

Answer: Brunswick Cathedral

Brunswick Cathedral is a large Lutheran church in the city of Brunswick, Lower Saxony. Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony from 1142, and Duke of Bavaria from 1156, established Brunswick Cathedral as a church, with construction beginning between 1173-1195.

Caroline of Brunswick married George IV of the United Kingdom in 1795. She became ill and died in Hammersmith, London in 1821. There was chaos and public unrest at her funeral procession in England, with soldiers being accosted with bricks and stones, and people were killed in the fighting. She was finally placed on a ship and laid to rest on her native Brunswick.

Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor died in 1218 and was buried in Brunswick Cathedral. He had managed to upset the pope at the time of his reign, and render himself excommunicated; however, despite being deserted by all of his supporters by the end of his reign, the excommunication was lifted by the time of his death.

Answer: Leine

Göttingen is located around 60 miles south of Hanover, which is the largest city on the Leine. Göttingen was largely undamaged during World War II and hosts many medieval buildings.

The Leine runs for around 175 miles through Lower Saxony and the German state of Thuringia. Its source is situated near the town of Leinefelde, Thuringia. It flows through Thuringia for around 25 miles before entering Lower Saxony, flowing north.

Author Tom Clancy used the Leine as setting for a major obstacle for the Soviet Union in his bestselling 1986 book "Red Storm Rising." In reality the river Leine is quite a narrow, with a small flow. It would not be a major problem for an army to cross.

Answer: Second-largest

Lower Saxony has an approximate area of 18,400 square miles, and Bavaria is the only German state bigger than it.

Lower Saxony borders more states than any other German state, and is bigger than the country of Denmark.

Answer: Salzgitter

Salzgitter is a city located in the south-east of Lower Saxony.

Schacht Konrad, or Konrad mine, is a former iron mine. It is unusually dry for an iron mine, and because of this it was considered suitable storage facility for radioactive waste, with plans to convert the mine into a geological repository being discussed as early as 1975. Plans were approved for it to be used to store nuclear waste in 2002.

Answer: Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg is situated just under 50 miles east of Hanover, and is located on the Aller River.

The Volkswagen Group's headquarters is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world, covering 70 million square miles. It employs around 60,500 people. In this plant, Volkswagen even has its own brand of sausage produced here, the Volkswagen currywurst, which has been sold since 1973. The fat content of this sausage is around 20%, while a typical German bratwurst sausage's fat content is usually around 35%.