Editing Braunschweig (section)

===Postwar period to the 21st century===
About 10% of the inner city survived Allied bombing and remain to represent its distinctive architecture.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/reise/braunschweiger_land/Die-moderne-Loewenstadt,braunschweig436.html |title=Braunschweig zwischen Tradition und Moderne |publisher=[[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]] |date=2015-01-29 |access-date=2015-07-17}}</ref> The cathedral was restored to its function as a [[Protestant]] church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.braunschweigerdom.de/dom/layout_storage/ueberdom_geschichte.php |title=Die wechselvolle Geschichte des Braunschweiger Doms |publisher=braunschweigerdom.de |access-date=2015-07-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923194314/http://www.braunschweigerdom.de/dom/layout_storage/ueberdom_geschichte.php |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Outside the old town city centre large historic quarters remain like [[Östliches Ringgebiet]] with its [[Gründerzeit]] architecture.

Politically, after the war, the Free State of Brunswick was dissolved by the [[Allied Occupation Zones in Germany|Allied occupying authorities]], Braunschweig ceased to be a capital, and most of its lands were incorporated in the newly formed state of [[Lower Saxony]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Lower-Saxony |title=Lower Saxony |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica Online]] |access-date=2015-07-17}}</ref>

During the [[Cold War]], Braunschweig, then part of [[West Germany]], suffered economically due to its proximity to the [[Iron Curtain]]. The city lost its historically strong economic ties to what was then [[East Germany]]; for decades, economic growth remained, on average, below the rest of the country while unemployment was above-average for West Germany.<ref>Gudrun Fiedler / Norman-Mathias Pingel (2008): ''Vom Nachkriegsboom in den Strukturwandel. Die Wirtschaft der Landes-Region Braunschweig nach 1945'', in: Jörg Leuschner / Karl Heinrich Kaufhold / Claudia Märtl (eds.), ''Die Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte des Braunschweigischen Landes vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart'', vol. 3, Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, pp. 586–588. {{ISBN|978-3-487-13599-1}}.</ref>

On 28 February 1974, as part of a district reform in Lower Saxony, the [[Landkreis|rural district]] of [[Braunschweig (district)|Braunschweig]], which had surrounded the city, was disestablished. The major part of the former district was incorporated into the city of Braunschweig, increasing its population by roughly 52,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/stadtportraet/geschichte/stadtchronik.html?id4=1974&seite=3 |title=Stadtchronik Braunschweig |publisher=Braunschweig.de |access-date=2015-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927185136/http://www.braunschweig.de/kultur_tourismus/stadtportraet/geschichte/stadtchronik.html?id4=1974&seite=3 |archive-date=2013-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the 1990s, efforts increased to reconstruct historic buildings that had been destroyed in the air raid.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} The façade of the ''[[Brunswick Palace|Braunschweiger Schloss]]'' was rebuilt, and buildings such as the ''Alte Waage'' (originally built in 1534) now stand again.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.braunschweig.de/leben/stadtportraet/geschichte/schlossgeschichte.html |title=Die Geschichte des Braunschweiger Schlosses |publisher=braunschweig.de |language=de |access-date=2015-07-18}}</ref><ref>Justus Herrenberger (1993): ''Die Baustelle "Alte Waage" in Braunschweig'', in: ''Jahrbuch 1992 der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft'', Göttingen: Verlag Erich Goltze KG, pp. 29-36.</ref>