Wittingen
Sign in to saveWittingen () is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about northeast of Gifhorn, and southeast of Uelzen.
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Wittingen is a city and integrated municipality located in the Gifhorn district of Lower Saxony, Germany. The town has a population of 11,589 and covers an area of 225.83 square kilometers. It sits at an elevation of 86 meters above sea level and operates within the UTC+01:00 and UTC+02:00 time zones. Wittingen shares borders with the neighboring communities of Schönewörde, Dedelstorf, Hankensbüttel, and Obernholz.
The municipality uses the license plate code GF and the postal codes 29378 and 29379. Local telephone dialing codes include 05831, 05834, 05836, and 05839. Wittingen is twinned with the administrative bodies of Bismark, Koknese, and Gela.
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Place details
- Locality
- Wittingen
- Region
- Niedersachsen
- Country
- Deutschland
- Population
- 12,427
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- German location.area
- 225.83
- German location.postal_code
- 29378, 29379
- German location.area_code
- 05831
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Wittingen
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Wittingen.png
- German location.image_photo
- Am Markt in der Altstadt von Wittingen IMG 9239.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Market square
- German location.image_plan
- Wittingen in GF.svg
- German location.state
- Niedersachsen
- German location.district
- Gifhorn
- German location.elevation
- 79
- German location.licence
- GF
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 03 1 51 040
- German location.divisions
- 26 districts
- German location.website
- www.wittingen.de
- German location.mayor
- Andreas Ritter
- German location.leader_term
- 2019–24
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
thumb|300px|Junkerstraße in Wittingen, with half-timbered houses This article covers attractions and facilities for visitors in and around the villages of Hankensbüttel, Knesebeck and Wittingen in the district of Gifhorn.
Get in
Take a flight to Hamburg, Hannover or Berlin. Then take a high-speed train to Wolfsburg. From there, you may take a cab to Knesebeck. Alternatively, take the regional train to Knesebeck (via Braunschweig, Gifhorn), which might be a little bit slower.
Do
There are good opportunities in Knesebeck for hiking, jogging, hunting and horse-riding.
Drink
thumb|This lovely morning view is of the Hankensbüttel Cemetery
Go next
Attractions in the region are the Lüneburger Heide and the town of Gifhorn, the Phaeno and Autostadt in Wolfsburg, the historic old towns of Celle and Lüneburg as well as the Museumsdorf Hösseringen near Uelzen.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Division of the town
- History
- Demographic data
- Mayors
- Sights
- Infrastructure
- Health and medicine
- Transport
- Notable people
- Industry
- References
- External links
Wittingen () is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is about northeast of Gifhorn, and southeast of Uelzen.
== Division of the town == Wittingen consists of 27 districts: {| | width="200" valign="top" | Boitzenhagen Darrigsdorf Erpensen Eutzen Gannerwinkel Glüsingen Hagen Kakerbeck Knesebeck | width="200" valign="top" | Küstorf Lüben Mahnburg Ohrdorf Plastau Rade Radenbeck Schneflingen Stöcken | width="200" valign="top" | Suderwittingen Teschendorf Vorhop Transvaal Wittingen Wollerstorf Wunderbüttel Zasenbeck Rumsdorf |}
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wittingen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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