Places to visit in Lower Saxony, Germany
9 places to visit in Lower Saxony, Germany, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Fagus Factory, Hildesheim Cathedral and St Michael's Church, Imperial Palace of Goslar and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Lower Saxony volume.
5 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 2 Famous places to visit · 2 Hidden gems
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Lower Saxony (5)
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Fagus Factory
A shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine river, designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer from 1911. Its glass curtain walls made it a forerunner of modern architecture, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Hildesheim Cathedral and St Michael's Church
Two churches in Hildesheim that show early Romanesque art around the year 1000. St Michael's, with its painted wooden ceiling, was built under Bishop Bernward, and the cathedral holds his bronze doors. Both are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Imperial Palace of Goslar
A historical building complex at the foot of the Rammelsberg hill in the south of Goslar, north of the Harz mountains. It covers an area of about 340 by 180 metres. Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire held court here from the 11th century, and the great hall is among the largest secular Romanesque buildings.
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Rammelsberg Mines and Goslar
A silver, copper and lead mine on the Rammelsberg hill above Goslar in the Harz, worked for about a thousand years until 1988. With the old town of Goslar and the Upper Harz water system, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Wadden Sea
An intertidal zone along the North Sea coast of Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, where mudflats are covered and uncovered twice a day. Walks across the flats at low tide are popular, and seals and millions of migratory birds use it. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Famous places to visit in Lower Saxony (2)
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Bergen-Belsen Memorial
A memorial and documentation centre on the site of a Nazi concentration camp on the Lüneburg Heath, liberated by British troops in April 1945. About 52,000 people died there, among them Anne Frank. Memorial stones mark the mass graves.
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Lüneburg Heath
A large area of heath, sandy hills and woodland in northeastern Lower Saxony. In August and September the common heather blooms purple, and flocks of heath sheep graze the Wilseder Berg area, its highest ground at 169 metres.
Hidden gems in Lower Saxony (2)
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Celle Castle
A quadrangular castle in Celle that was one of the residences of the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It is the largest castle in the southern Lüneburg Heath region. Parts of it date to the 13th century, and today it holds a museum, a theatre and a Baroque chapel.
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Herrenhausen Gardens
The gardens of Herrenhausen Palace in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover. They date to the era of the prince-electors and kings of Hanover and include the Great Garden and the Hill Garden among others.
Collecting in Lower Saxony
What are the best places to visit in Lower Saxony?
LOQAH lists 9 places in Lower Saxony. The best known include Fagus Factory, Hildesheim Cathedral and St Michael's Church, Imperial Palace of Goslar, Rammelsberg Mines and Goslar and Wadden Sea. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Lower Saxony?
9, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Lower Saxony?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Lower Saxony before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Lower Saxony and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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