Wittmar
Sign in to saveWittmar () is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. thumb|left|Wittmar
Key facts
- German location.name
- Wittmar
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Wittmar COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Wittmar in WF.svg
- German location.state
- Niedersachsen
- German location.district
- Wolfenbüttel
- German location.Samtgemeinde
- Elm-Asse
- German location.elevation
- 131
- German location.area
- 4.66
- German location.postal_code
- 38329
- German location.area_code
- 05337
- German location.licence
- WF
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 03 1 58 036
- German location.mayor
- Andreas Becker
- German location.party
- SPD
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- Asse
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Wittmar () is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. thumb|left|Wittmar
==Asse== For several hundred years, salt has been mined in Asse, a small mountain range in the district of Wolfenbüttel. One of these mines, Schacht Asse II, is now used to store low- and medium-grade radioactive waste produced by medicine and nuclear power plants.