Braunschweig (Lower Saxony Brunswiek) is a large town in northern Germany in the east of the federal state of Lower Saxony. With approximately 245,000 inhabitants it is after Hannover the second large largest city in Lower Saxony. The Braunschweig lion has been the symbol of the city since the 12th century. Braunschweig is located in the alluvial plain on partly brittle, formerly marshy soils on both sides of the river Oker, which flows around the city center in the eastern and western basin
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the Braunschweig Dome was built in 1173 as a collegiate church by Henry the Lion, Duke of Bavaria and Saxony opposite his Dankwarderode Castle, meant to be his burial place. The Dankwarderode Castle was first documented in 1134 as castrum Tanquarderoth. The old railway station (the first one as well) was designed in Gothic style by Carl Theodor Ottmer, the Braunschweig counsellor for court construction in 1838. The Richmond castle was built for the princess and later duchess Auguste in 1768/69 in the south of the town of Braunschweig. The origins of the St. Andreas church go back to a hall-type church from the year 1160. The St. Andreas Church was first documented in 1290. Since 1528 it is a Protestant church. The old Town Hall with the fountain from the 15th century, numerous timbered houses, monuments and statues.
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