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Brunswick (Germany) Travel Guide
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Europe : Central Europe : Germany : Lower Saxony : Brunswick
Brunswick (German: Braunschweig) [1] is a city of more than 200,000 in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Get in
The train station is not very near to the center, so it is best to take the bus.
Get around
A good choice for sounding out the situation in Braunschweig is walking. For those who have bad feet the second but expensive choice is taking the bus or tram.
See
- Dome
- Dankwarderode Castle
- Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (in German)
- Museum der Fotografie (Museum of Photography)
- Prinz Albrecht Park (a nice park, where you can see much people doing barbeque in the summer time)
- State Natural History Museum
Do
- Canoeing around the city (go to the Kennedy Place, there is a place for renting)
Buy
Eat
There are a lot of restaurants in Brunswick. When you are in the city center good choices for a fast meal are the pizza restaurant in the 'Burg Passage' and the dutch french fries "Imbiss" near 'Karstadt'.
Watch out for seasonal food, such as asparagus, chanterelles, or curly kale, the latter being a specialty of the Brunswick region.
Drink
- Joly Joker, located in the Brunswick weststadt, [2]. Open Tu, F, Sa from 9PM to around 3AM. Daily drink specials. Ages range from 14 to 25 on an average night.
- DAX Bierbörse, in the center of the city.
- Fritz, [3], near the Schützenplatz.
- Meier Music Hall, [4]. Mostly 'darker' music like metal and so on.
- Bolero, with Mexican restaurant (call ahead for reservation).
- Knochenhauer, with weekly Salsa lessions.
- Latino, on Tuesdays discount for their excellent pizza.
Sleep
Get out
- The state capital Hanover is less than an hour away by train.
- The Harz mountains can be reached by public transport.
- Magdeburg is less than an hour by train.
- Göttingen is one hour by ICE high speed train.
- Wolfenbüttel with its library is 9 mins by train (or 27 by bus).
- The Autostadt Wolfsburg, home of the Volkswagen, is 16 or 24 mins by train.
- The former border control post at Marienborn near Helmstedt is now a memorial site.
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