Wolfenbüttel (deu)

Wolfenbüttel

Wolfenbüttel ranks 706th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vitebsk, Iceland, and Montgomery, Alabama. Memorable people born in Wolfenbüttel include Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Memorable people who died in Wolfenbüttel include Michael Praetorius, Willi Herold, and Christian the Younger of Brunswick. Wolfenbüttel has been the birth place of many noblemen, and politicians and the death place of many noblemen, and composers. Wolfenbüttel is located in Germany.

Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest concentration of timber-framed buildings in Germany, around 1,000. It is an episcopal see of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick. It is also home to the Jägermeister distillery, houses a campus of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, and the Landesmusikakademie of Lower Saxony. Read more on Wikipedia