Cremlingen
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Wolfenbüttel (district)
Wolfenbüttel is a district in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany. Neighboring districts are the district-free City of Braunschweig, the district of Helmstedt, the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt, and the districts of Goslar, Hildesheim and Peine...
, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It borders Lehre
Lehre
Lehre is a municipality in the district of Helmstedt, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The current population is 11,539 and is situated approximately 13 km southwest of Wolfsburg, and 12 km northeast of Braunschweig....
, Königslutter
Königslutter
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, Sickte
Sickte (Samtgemeinde)
Sickte is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Its seat is in the village Sickte.The Samtgemeinde Sickte consists of the following municipalities:# Dettum# Erkerode# Evessen# Sickte...
, and Braunschweig
Braunschweig
Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....
. Parts of it are adjacent to the Elm hills.
History
From May 8, 1944 until April 12, 1945 a concentration camp was established in the quarter Schandelah. The camp was a subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp.Division of the municipality
Cremlingen was established in 1974 by merging the former municipalities of- Abbenrode
- Cremlingen
- Destedt
- Gardessen
- Hemkenrode
- Hordorf
- Klein Schöppenstedt
- Schandelah
- Schulenrode
- Weddel
Notable places
Cremlingen transmitter
The Cremlingen transmitter is a large mediumwave transmission facility established in 1962 for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk on 756 kHz near Cremlingen-Abbenrode....
, a major medium wave antenna
Radio masts and towers
Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. They are among the tallest man-made structures...
used for broadcasting Deutschlandfunk
Deutschlandfunk
Deutschlandfunk is a German public broadcasting radio station, broadcasting national news and current affairs.-History:Broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany is reserved under the Basic Law to the states. This means that all public broadcasting is regionalised...
.