Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Lower Saxony
Detourmap lists 158 places in Lower Saxony, Germany, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Heligoland Bight. 145 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 158
- Oldest
- Nikolai Chapel 1325
- Little known
- 145 of 158
- Share of Germany
- 11%
Lower Saxony 158
The 120 best known of 158. The other 38 are on the map and on the Germany pages.
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4.Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park
Nature · 20th century · Notable
German national park in Lower Saxony
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11.Battle at the Harzhorn
Archaeological · Notable
235 battle between Roman and Germanic troops (c.235)
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23.Schöningen Spears
Archaeological · Hidden gem
8 wooden throwing spears from the Palaeolithic, excavated in 1994–1998 in Schöningen, Helmstedt district, Germany
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25.Asse II mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Former salt mine; deep geological repository in Lower Saxony, Germany
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27.Iberg Dripstone Cave
Nature · Hidden gem
Public cave and geology museum in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany
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32.Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System
Archaeological · Hidden gem
World Heritage Site in Lower Saxony
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34.Sieben Steinhäuser
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Group of five dolmens on the Lüneburg Heath, Germany
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41.Hitzacker Archaeological Centre
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Archaeological open-air museum
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49.Necropolis of Soderstorf
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Prehistoric cemetery in Lower Saxony, Germany
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51.Samson Pit
Archaeological · 17th century · Hidden gem
Historical mine in Sank Andreasberg in the Upper Harz, Germany
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52.Roter Bär Pit
Archaeological · 18th century · Hidden gem
Historic mine in Sankt Andreasberg, Harz
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112.Wulfsen horse burial
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Early medieval burial of three horses found in Lower Saxony, Germany
Elsewhere in Germany
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Lower Saxony?
Heligoland Bight. Bay in the Germany. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Lower Saxony?
158: 88 archaeological & historic sites and 70 nature & landscapes. 145 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Lower Saxony?
Nikolai Chapel, dated to 1325. 43 of the 158 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Lower Saxony here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Lower Saxony if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Lower Saxony is a first-level division of Germany, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.