10 Facts About Salzgitter

Salzgitter is an independent city in southeast Lower Saxony, Germany, located between Hildesheim and Braunschweig.

Salzgitter originated as a conglomeration of several small towns and villages, and is today made up of 31 boroughs, which are relatively compact conurbations with wide stretches of open country between them.

Beside Wolfsburg, Leverkusen and Eisenhuttenstadt, Salzgitter is one of the few cities in Germany founded during the 20th century.

Until 31 March 1942, "Salzgitter" was the name of a town where the borough Salzgitter-Bad now is.

Salzgitter is located in a wide dell coated with loess, between the Oderwald Forest and the Salzgitter-Hohenzug .

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Salzgitter originated in the beginning of the 14th century around salt springs near the village Verpstedt .

Salzgitter's Coat of Arms consists of a silver furnace visible behind a silver pinnacle wall on which there is a buckler whose upper ground is green and adorned with two saltern instruments and whose lower ground is gold and adorned with a black sledge and black iron.

East from Salzgitter, there is the Autobahn 395, which can be reached from Salzgitter by four interchanges.

Salzgitter-Lebenstedt is the end of a local line coming from Braunschweig and passing the other train stops of Salzgitter.

For example, in Salzgitter-Bad there is a society rooting in the students' theater of the local grammar-school that supports the amateur play.