Obernkirchen (German pronunciation: [oːbɐnˈkɪʁçən]) is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Population: 10,120
Latitude: 52° 16' 19.56" N
Longitude: 9° 07' 44.83" E
The House of Hohenzollern is a dynasty of former princes, electors, kings, and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. The family arose in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th centur…
The Battle of Minden—or Tho(r)nhausen—was fought on 1 August 1759, during the Seven Years' War. An army fielded by the Anglo-German alliance commanded by Field Marshal Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, defeated a French army commanded by Marshal of Fran…
The Central Uplands (German: die Mittelgebirge) is one of the three major natural regions of Germany and covers most of the land area of the country.
Schaumburg is a district (Landkreis) of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Minden-Lübbecke is a Kreis (district) in the northeastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The Bad Nenndorf interrogation centre was a British Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre in the town of Bad Nenndorf, Germany, which operated from June 1945 to July 1947. Allegations of mistreatment of detainees by British troops resulted…
Angria or Angaria (German: Engern) is a historical region in the present-day German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. The chronicler Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres denoted it as the central r…
The Steinhuder Meer or Lake Steinhude is a lake in Lower Saxony, Germany located 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Hanover. It is named after the nearby village of Steinhude. It has an area of about 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi), making it the la…
Hamelin-Pyrmont (German: Hameln-Pyrmont) is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Minden-Ravensberg was a Prussian administrative unit consisting of the Principality of Minden and the County of Ravensberg from 1719–1807. The capital was Minden. In 1807 the region became part of the Kingdom of Westphalia, a client state of Napoleo…
Loccum Abbey (Kloster Loccum) is a former Cistercian monastery in the town of Rehburg-Loccum, Lower Saxony, near Steinhude Lake.
The Bückeberg (also the Bückeberge) is a ridge in the Calenberg Uplands between the Harrl and the Deister in central Germany, and is often considered part of the Weser Uplands.
The Porta Westfalica, also known as the Westphalian Gap, is a gorge and water gap, where the Weser river runs through the passage between the mountain chains of the Wiehen Hills in the west and the Weser Hills (part of the Weser Uplands) in the east.
Bückeburg Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Bückeburg, ICAO: ETHB) is located northeast of the city of Bückeburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Although the stone facade dates from 1602, the half-timbered building known colloquially as the Pied Piper’s House in Hameln is actually much older. The facade was built for Mayor Hermann Arendes by the architects Johann Hundertossen and/or Eberhard…
Rodenberg is a town in the district of Schaumburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the northwestern edge of the Deister hills, approx.
The Süntel is a massif in the German Central Uplands that is up to 437.5 m above sea level (NN).
Loccum is a village situated about 50 km north west of Hanover in the district of Nienburg in Lower-Saxony, Germany.