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==Economy and Infrastructure==

=== Economy ===

Tourism is a large contributor to Celle's economy, especially in the summer months during jazz, wine, and other festivals, which attract thousands of visitors.

The town is not really known for heavy industry, but many businesses which have started up in Celle and some, such as Rosa Graf Cosmetics, have reached the world market. Celle does have some links to the oil industry, though, particularly firms engineering parts for drilling; notably [[Baker Hughes]] ([[Baker Hughes INTEQ|INTEQ]] and [[Hughes Christensen]] divisions; oil and gas industry service companies specialising in [[Measurement while drilling|MWD]], [[Wireline (cabling)|Wireline]], [[Drill bit (well)|Drill-bits]], Drilling Applications Engineering, etc.), [[Cameron (company)|Cameron]]<ref>"[http://www.c-a-m.com/content/locations/index.cfm?CFID=955437&CFTOKEN=48620150&jsessionid=30303c118299$ED$2F$E/ Cameron German office locations]." ''[[Cameron (company)|Cameron]]''. Retrieved on 31 March 2009.</ref> (global provider of pressure control, processing, flow control and compression systems as well as project management and aftermarket services for the oil and gas and process industries), and ITAG<ref>"[http://www.itag-celle.de/ ITAG official website]." Retrieved on 31 March 2009.</ref> (drilling contractors and manufacturing plant). [[Halliburton]], founded in 1919, is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry and has an office in Celle.<ref>"[http://www.halliburton.com/locations/ Halliburton German office location] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114084458/http://www.halliburton.com/locations/ |date=14 January 2009 }}." ''[[Halliburton]]''. Retrieved on 13 January 2009.</ref> There is also a school for advance drilling techniques.

Other light industries include electronics, food manufacture, and metal, wood and plastic processing. In addition there an ink manufacturer ''(formerly Hostmann-Steinberg now hubergroup)'', paper factory ''(Werner Achilles Glanzfolien-Kaschieranstalt)'' and musical instruments makers (including '' [[Moeck Musikinstrumente + Verlag|Moeck]]''). Celle is also home to Germany's Bee institute which carries out scientific studies on the bee species as well as keeping its own bee hives.

Celle is also known as a town of civil servants, due to the large number of government officials and lawyers who work there providing important administrative and judicial services to the region. Agriculture and forestry also play a role.

====Foodstuffs====
Celle is the base for a [[crispbread]] factory, Barilla Wasa Deutschland. Regional and to some extent national suppliers are the high-alcohol drink manufactures of the ''[[Ratzeputz]]'' and ''Alter Provisor'' brands. Originally made in Celle's Altstadt, the herb-based spirit ''[[Ratzeputz]]'' is now distilled on the [[Westercelle]] industrial estate, ''Alter Provisor'' is still produced and sold in the ''Altstadt''. ''Celler Bier'' is also established here with its six varieties of beer. Another Celle speciality is ''Rohe Roulade'', which initially gained fame in the ''Gasthaus Krohne'' (now ''Dackel's Krohne'') in the district of Blumlage and is now offered in many of Celle's restaurants and pubs.

====Transport and logistics====
The [[East Hanoverian Railways]] (''Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen'' or ''OHE'') is a goods and passenger transport company covering the north German area with its headquarters in Celle.
Also based in Celle are the postal distribution centre for [[Deutsche Post]]'s post code district 29 and the transport company DTLS – Drilling Tools Logistic & Service.

===Transport===

==== Rail ====
Celle lies on the [[Hanover–Hamburg railway|Hanover – Celle – Uelzen – Lüneburg – Hamburg line]]. [[InterCity|Intercity (IC)]] trains to Hanover and Hamburg stop hourly at the station as do individual [[Intercity-Express|ICE]] trains during the rush hour. [[Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft|metronom]] trains link Celle to Uelzen, Hanover and Göttingen as part of the regional transport network. Celle is the terminus for routes S&nbsp;6 and S&nbsp;7 of the [[Hanover S-Bahn]].

The section between Celle and [[Großburgwedel]] was built in the 1920s as a high-speed line for testing and record journeys across the heath-like, so-called Wietzenbruch. It was nicknamed the Hare Railway (''Hasenbahn'') due to its environment which was devoid of habitation and the numerous hares killed on the line in its early days. In 1965 this section via [[Langenhagen]] was electrified for the TEE and IC services from Hamburg to Hanover, in order to save routing them via Lehrte and having to change direction in Hanover. Later it was upgraded for traffic operating regularly at {{convert|200|km/h|0|abbr=on}}.
Formerly there were railway links from Celle via [[Schwarmstedt]] to [[Bremen]] ([[Aller Valley Railway]]) and via Plockhorst to [[Braunschweig|Brunswick]]; these were closed in the 1970s and have largely been dismantled. In 2004 the last remaining branch line from [[Gifhorn]] to Celle via [[Wienhausen]], that was still used in places for goods traffic, was finally closed and work on lifting the line in the area of the town has begun.

The [[East Hanoverian Railways]] run goods trains on several branch lines in the Celle area, including those to [[Wittingen]], [[Soltau]] and [[Munster (Örtze)|Munster]]. Occasionally [[heritage train]]s and specials also run on these lines.

The [[Lehrte–Celle railway]] is an important route for goods trains and was converted in 1998 into a modern S-Bahn line.

A tramway network of 2 lines had been operated since 1907 by the Celler Straßenbahn but this was closed and dismantled between 1954 and 1956.

====Road====
Important links are:

* North-south: the [[Bundesstraße 3|B 3]] running north to [[Soltau]]/[[Hamburg]] and south to [[Hanover]]
* Southeast-west: the [[Bundesstraße 214|B 214]] running southeast to [[Braunschweig|Brunswick]] and west to [[Nienburg/Weser|Nienburg]]
* Northeast: the [[Bundesstraße 191|B 191]] to [[Uelzen]]/[[Lüneburg]]/[[Ludwigslust]]
* [[Landesstraße]] 310 via Fuhrberg southwest to the junction at Mellendorf on the [[Bundesautobahn 7|A 7]] motorway
* Landesstraße 282 east-northeast via [[Beedenbostel]], [[Eldingen]] and [[Steinhorst (Niedersachsen)|Steinhorst]] to [[Wittingen]]
* Landesstraße 180 via [[Winsen (Aller)]] west-northwest to the motorway services of ''Raststätte Allertal'', on the [[Bundesautobahn 7|A 7]]

====Air====
[[File:Luftbrueckendenkmal Celle.jpg|thumb|upright|The Berlin Airlift memorial at [[Celle Air Base]]]]
[[Hannover-Langenhagen Airport|Hanover-Langenhagen airport]] with international flight connections is about {{convert|35|km|0|abbr=off}} away.

The [[Celle Air Base|Army airfield at Celle]] is 4.5&nbsp;kilometres southwest of the town centre on the edge of the district of [[Wietzenbruch]]. Operated as [[RAF Celle]] after the [[Second World War]], it was from here in 1948–49 that supply flights to Berlin took off as part of the [[Berlin Airlift]]. Today the airfield is mainly used by the Army Aviation School (''Heeresfliegerwaffenschule'') as a training airfield for helicopter pilots.<br/>
Celle-Arloh airfield near the district of Scheuen is a recreational airfield. It also offers round trips over the town of Celle and the Lüneburg Heath. There is also a glider airfield at Scheuen.

====Water====
Celle [[harbour]] is only used by tourists today. From Celle the [[Aller (Germany)|Aller]] is classified downstream as a federal shipping lane; upstream a weir prevents ships passing. In former centuries Celle was an important transhipment station for ships between [[Braunschweig|Brunswick]] and the ports in [[Bremen]] via [[Oker]], Aller and the (Lower) [[Weser]]. Bremen and Brunswick merchants had specific tasks from the Dukes of [[Duchy of Celle|Celle]] and later the town of Celle in order to ensure the safety of transport, because the speed of the Aller in the area of Celle made loading and unloading in the port necessary.

From 1900 the quantity of trade through Celle Harbour steadily decreased and switched to road and rail. Until 1970 the transport of grain to the Celle ''Rathsmühle'' and the transport of potash salts were still significant.

====Town public transport services====
The firm of CeBus runs eight bus lines around the town. There are 15 bus lines for regional services, with which the villages in the district of Celle can be reached. Sometimes town and region bus services are combined.

===Media===
The ''[[Cellesche Zeitung]]'' is the local daily newspaper with a circulation of 34,977 <small>(as at: 2nd quarter 2005)</small>. In addition there is the bi-weekly ''Celler Kurier'' and weekly ''Celler Blitz'' as well as a monthly town magazine, the ''[[Celler Scene]]''. Another monthly is the ''Celler Blickpunkt''. The ''revista'' appears roughly every 2&nbsp;months with a left-wing perspective of politics and culture.

===Education===

==== Schools ====
The [[grammar school]]s (''[[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasien]]'') in Celle are the Hermann Billung Gymnasium which majors in mathematics, the sciences, Spanish and bilingual education (history to level 7 in English), the Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria Gymnasium with a focus on music and European studies, the Gymnasium Ernestinum with Latin and ancient Greek, which was founded in 1328 as the [[Latin school]], and the Hölty Gymnasium with courses in Russian and which has a mathematics and science branch.

The other general schools are the three secondary schools (''[[Realschule]]n'') (Westercelle, Auf der Heese, Burgstraße), six combined primary (''[[Grundschule]]n'') and [[secondary modern]] (''[[Hauptschule]]n'') schools (Altstadt, Blumlage, Groß Hehlen, Heese-Süd, Neustadt, Wietzenbruch) as well as nine primary schools. In addition there are also the Catholic primary school (''Katholische Schule'') and the [[Montessori]] primary and secondary school, ''Freie Aktive Schule Celle''.

====Vocational schools====
Celle has four vocational establishments (''Berufsbildende Schulen'' or ''BBS''): BBS I − Economics and Administration, BBS II (Axel Bruns Schule) − Technology, Design and IT, BBS III − Health and Social Studies − and BBS IV (Albrecht Thaer Schule) − Agriculture, Domestic Science and Nutrition. 
<!--At all four schools there are courses that lead to one and two-year igen [[Fachoberschule]], die zur [[Fachhochschulreife]] führen. Alle Schulen, mit Ausnahme der BBS III, bieten auch entsprechende Fachgymnasien an, die mit der [[Abitur|allgemeinen Hochschulreife]] abschließen. Ergänzend zur BBS III besteht in Celle eine anerkannte Ersatzschule für Soziales, die "Schule der Lobetalarbeit" in Trägerschaft der evangelischen Kirche. An dieser Schule besteht die Möglichkeit, soziale Berufe zu erlernen sowie das Fachabitur zu absolvieren.
Damit gibt es in Celle neben den allgemeinbildenden Gymnasien auch [[Berufliches Gymnasium|Fachgymnasien]] für Wirtschaft, Technik, Ernährung und Soziales. -->

====Other educational establishments====
Since 2003 Celle has been the location for the private College of Economics (''Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft'' or ''FHDW''), which offers courses of studies in [[mechatronics]] and the Bachelor of Business Administration.
Another important educational establishment in Celle is the Bohrmeisterschule which is a technical college for drilling, extraction and pipeline technology.

Celle is home to one of the two Lower Saxony State Firefighting Schools. It was also the location for the Celler Schule, one of the [[Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte|GEMA]] foundation institutions for up and coming songwriters, from 1996 to 2008, before it moved to [[Springe]].

In addition there is an [[adult education centre]] in Celle, which has numerous branches in the surrounding districts.