Editing Braunschweig (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Braunschweigs Industrie (Postkarte 1904).JPG|thumb|right|1904 [[postcard]] showing typical food of Braunschweig]]
[[File:Pieta.Kadishman.jpg|thumb|right|''Piëta'', by [[Menashe Kadishman]], Braunschweig]]

Braunschweig is famous for ''[[Till Eulenspiegel]]'', a medieval jester who played many practical jokes on its citizens.
It also had many breweries, and still a very peculiar kind of [[beer]] is made called ''[[Brunswick Mum|Mumme]]'', first quoted in 1390, a malt-extract that was shipped all over the world. Two major breweries still produce in Braunschweig, the {{ill|Hofbrauhaus Wolters|de}}, founded in 1627, and the former {{ill|Feldschlößchen (Braunschweig)|lt=Feldschlößchen|de}} brewery, founded in 1871, now operated by [[Oettinger Beer]].

[[Braunschweiger (sausage)|Braunschweiger]] [[Mettwurst]], a soft, spreadable smoked pork sausage, is named after the city. Other traditional local dishes include [[Asparagus|white asparagus]], ''Braunschweiger [[Lebkuchen]]'', ''Braunkohl'' (a variant of [[kale]] served with [[Bregenwurst]]), and ''Uhlen un Apen'' (Low German for "[[Owl]]s and [[Guenon]]s", a pastry).<ref>{{cite web | url = http://braunschweig.de/tourismus/ueber-braunschweig/typisch-koestlich.html | title = Typisch köstlich | language = de | access-date = 3 June 2016 | archive-date = 18 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181018095951/http://www.braunschweig.de/tourismus/ueber-braunschweig/typisch-koestlich.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.reiseland-niedersachsen.de/braunschweig-3| title = Braunschweig - Kulinarische Spezialitäten vom Mittelalter bis heute| language = de| access-date = 3 June 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160629105458/http://www.reiseland-niedersachsen.de/braunschweig-3| archive-date = 2016-06-29| url-status = dead}}</ref>

===Media===
Braunschweig's major local newspaper is the ''[[Braunschweiger Zeitung]]'', first published in 1946. Papers formerly published in Braunschweig include the ''Braunschweigische Anzeigen''/''Braunschweigische Staatszeitung'' (1745–1934), the ''Braunschweigische Landeszeitung'' (1880–1936) and the ''Braunschweiger Stadtanzeiger''/''Braunschweiger Allgemeiner Anzeiger'' (1886–1941), and the social-democratic ''{{ill|Braunschweiger Volksfreund|de}}'' (1871–1933).

Near Braunschweig at [[Cremlingen]]-Abbenrode, there is a large medium wave transmitter, which transmits the program of ''[[Deutschlandfunk]]'' on 756&nbsp;kHz, the [[Cremlingen transmitter]].

===Festivals===
''[[:de:Schoduvel|Schoduvel]]'', a medieval Northern German form of [[Carnival in Germany, Switzerland and Austria|carnival]] was celebrated in Braunschweig as early as the 13th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sitm.info/history/Groningen/sondergaard.htm | author = Søndergaard, Leif | title = Carnival is Festival: Dances as Entertainment | access-date = 8 October 2012}}</ref> Since 1979 an annual [[Rosenmontag]] parade is held in Braunschweig, the largest in Northern Germany, which is named Schoduvel in honour of the medieval custom.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/veranstaltungen/blickpunkte/bsm_artikel/karneval.html | title = Braunschweiger Karneval "Schoduvel" | language = de | access-date = 8 October 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120831073841/http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/veranstaltungen/blickpunkte/bsm_artikel/karneval.html | archive-date = 31 August 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

An annual ''Weihnachtsmarkt'' ([[Christmas market]]) is held in late November and December on the Burgplatz in the centre of Braunschweig. In 2008 the market had 900,000 visitors.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/lokales/Braunschweig/900-000-besucher-auf-dem-weihnachtsmarkt-id468999.html | title = 900 000 Besucher auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt | date = 29 December 2008 | language = de | access-date = 8 October 2012 | archive-date = 30 May 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160530114541/http://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/lokales/Braunschweig/900-000-besucher-auf-dem-weihnachtsmarkt-id468999.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

===Museums and galleries===
[[File:Braunschweig Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum nachts.jpg|thumb|right|Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum]]
[[File:Salve Hospes 04 1a.jpg|thumb|right|''Villa Salve Hospes'']]

The city's most important museum is the [[Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum]], a well known art museum and the oldest public museum in Germany, founded in 1754. It houses a collection of masters of Western art, including [[Albrecht Dürer|Dürer]], [[Giorgione]], [[Lucas Cranach the Elder|Cranach]], [[Hans Holbein the Younger|Holbein]], [[Anthony van Dyck|Van Dyck]], [[Jan Vermeer|Vermeer]], [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]], and [[Rembrandt]].

The [[Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum|State Museum of Brunswick]] (''Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum''), founded in 1891, houses a permanent collection documenting the history of the [[Brunswick Land|Brunswick area]] ranging from its early history to the present.

The Municipal Museum of Brunswick (''Städtisches Museum Braunschweig''), founded in 1861, is a museum for art and cultural history, documenting the history of the city of Braunschweig.

The [[Naturhistorisches Museum (Braunschweig)|State Natural History Museum]] is a zoology museum founded in 1754.

Other museums in the city include the Museum of Photography (''Museum für Photographie''), the Jewish Museum (''Jüdisches Museum''), the Museum for Agricultural Technology ''Gut Steinhof'', and the [[Friedrich Gerstäcker|Gerstäcker-Museum]]. Frequent exhibitions of contemporary art are also held by the Art Society of Braunschweig (German: ''Kunstverein Braunschweig''), housed in the ''Villa Salve Hospes'', a classicist villa built between 1805 and 1808.

===Music and dance===
The ''[[Braunschweig Classix Festival]]'' was an annual classical music festival. It is the largest promoter of classical music in the region and one of the most prominent music festivals in [[Lower Saxony]].

From 2001 to 2009, and again since 2013, the annual finals of the international [[breakdance]] competition [[Battle of the Year]] have been held at the [[Volkswagen Halle]] in Braunschweig.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.braunbattleoftheyear.com/about.html |title=About BOTY |access-date=27 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925173701/http://www.braunbattleoftheyear.com/about.html |archive-date=25 September 2011 }}</ref>

''Braunschweiger TSC'' is among the leading competitive [[formation dance]] teams in the world and has won multiple World and European championship titles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.formationen.de/content/historie/internationalemeister.html |title=List of World and European champions |access-date=27 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823040042/http://www.formationen.de/content/historie/internationalemeister.html |archive-date=23 August 2013 }}</ref>

===Sports===
[[File:BSM Konrad-Koch Braunschweig 01.jpg|thumb|right|The first German version of the rules of football by Konrad Koch]]
[[File:BS_Eintracht_Stadion.JPG|thumb|right|[[Eintracht-Stadion]], the stadium of [[2. Bundesliga]] club [[Eintracht Braunschweig]]]]

Braunschweig's major local [[Association football|football]] team is [[Eintracht Braunschweig]]. Founded in 1895, Eintracht Braunschweig can look back on a long and chequered history. Eintracht Braunschweig won the [[List of German football champions|German football championship]] in [[1966–67 Bundesliga|1967]], and currently plays in the [[2. Bundesliga]], the second tier of German football, and attracts a large number of supporters. Braunschweig was also arguably the city in which the first ever game of football in Germany took place. The game had been brought to Germany by the local school teacher [[Konrad Koch]], also the first to write down a German version of the [[Laws of the Game (association football)|rules of football]],<ref group="nb">However, Koch's original German version of the rules of football, published in 1875, still resembled [[Rugby football]]—the unmodified rules of [[The Football Association]] were not commonly used in Germany before the 1900s.</ref> who organized the first match between pupils from his school ''Martino-Katharineum'' in 1874.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/veranstaltungen/medien-bsm/Internet_Die_Wiege_des_Fussballs_090910.pdf| title = Die Wiege des Fußballs stand in Braunschweig| language = de| access-date = 8 August 2012| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101207080220/http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/veranstaltungen/medien-bsm/Internet_Die_Wiege_des_Fussballs_090910.pdf| archive-date = 7 December 2010| url-status = dead}}</ref> The 2011 German drama film [[Lessons of a Dream]] is based on Koch.

Eintracht Braunschweig also fields a successful women's [[field hockey]] team that claimed nine national championship titles between 1965 and 1978. In the past, the club also had first or second-tier teams in the sports of [[ice hockey]], [[field handball]], and [[water polo]].

The [[New Yorker Lions]] (formerly Braunschweig Lions) are the city's [[American football]] team, winning a record number of 12 [[German Bowl]] titles, as well as five [[Eurobowl]]s (a shared record).

The city's professional [[basketball]] team, the [[Basketball Löwen Braunschweig]], plays in the [[Basketball Bundesliga]], the highest level in Germany. The Löwen's predecessor [[SG Braunschweig]] had previously played in the Bundesliga as well. Eintracht Braunschweig's women's basketball team plays in the {{ill|2. Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga|de}}, the second tier of women's basketball in Germany.

In [[handball]], [[MTV Braunschweig]], the city's oldest sports club (founded in 1847), plays in the semi-professional [[:de:3. Liga (Handball)|3. Liga]].

Other sports clubs from Braunschweig that play or have played at the [[Bundesliga (disambiguation)|Bundesliga]]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> or [[2nd Bundesliga (disambiguation)|2nd Bundesliga]]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> level include {{ill|Braunschweig Spot Up 89ers|lt=Spot Up 89ers|de}} ([[baseball]]), {{ill|Braunschweiger THC|de}} (field hockey), {{ill|FC Braunschweig|lt=SV Süd Braunschweig|de}} (handball), [[Rugby-Welfen Braunschweig]] ([[rugby union]]), and {{ill|USC Braunschweig|de}} ([[volleyball]]).

Annual sporting events held in Braunschweig include the international [[Equestrianism|equestrian]] tournament ''Löwen Classics'', ''Rund um den Elm'', Germany's oldest [[Road bicycle racing|road bicycle race]],<ref>{{cite book | first = Kurt | last = Hoffmeister | title = Zeitreise durch die Braunschweiger Sportgeschichte: 180 Jahre Turnen und Sport in Braunschweig | year = 2010 | language = de | page = 43}}</ref> and the professional [[tennis]] tournament ''[[Sparkassen Open]]''.