Braunschweig (deu)

Braunschweig

Braunschweig ranks 378th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Versailles, Yvelines, Fez, Morocco, and Bonn. Memorable people born in Braunschweig include Carl Friedrich Gauss, Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Richard Dedekind. Memorable people who died in Braunschweig include Martin Chemnitz, Henry the Lion, and Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Braunschweig has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and noblemen. Braunschweig is located in Germany.

Braunschweig or Brunswick is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser. In 2024, it had a population of 272,417. The Braunschweig-Wolfsburg-Salzgitter region had 1.02 million residents including the cities Wolfsburg and Salzgitter, it is the second largest urban center in Lower Saxony after Hanover. The urban agglomeration of Braunschweig had a population of 551,000 with almost 45% having a migration background, making it the most diverse urban agglomeration in the whole state. The city consists of 37.5% immigrants with a high amount of migrants coming from other European countries, Asia and Africa. 73% of the Germans residing in Braunschweig come from different parts of the country, particularly North Rhine Westphalia, Hessen and the former states of East Germany. Braunschweig is considered a metropolis and a regiopolis. It is one of the largest regiopolitan cities in Northern Germany and the largest regiopolis in Lower Saxony. The city is seen as a major hub within the region due to it having multiple characteristics of a metropolitan city in a smaller scale or in a comparative amount to other metropolitan cities in Germany. Read more on Wikipedia