Editing Salzgitter

{{short description|City in Lower Saxony, Germany}}
{{for|the company|Salzgitter AG}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox German location
|type              = City
|German_name =  <small>''Soltgitter'' ([[Eastphalian language|Eastphalian]])</small>
|image_photo       = Schloss Salder Front Winter.jpg
|image_caption     = Salder Castle
|image_flag        = Flagge Salzgitter.svg
|image_coa         = DEU Salzgitter COA.svg
|coordinates       = {{coord|52|09|N|10|20|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|state             = Lower Saxony
|district          = urban
|elevation         = 80-275
|area              = 224.49
|postal_code       = 38226, 38228, 38229,<br>38239, 38259
|area_code         = 05341
|licence           = SZ
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 03 1 02 000
|divisions         = 7 [[town]]s<br/>with 31 [[borough]]s
|website           = [https://www.salzgitter.de/ www.salzgitter.de]
|mayor             = Frank Klingebiel<ref name=mayor>{{cite web|url=https://wahlen.statistik.niedersachsen.de/KW2021/reports/DW/20210912_DW_Uebersicht.pdf|title=Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021|date=13 October 2021|publisher=[[Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen]]}}</ref>
|leader_term       = 2021&ndash;26
|Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister
|party             = CDU
}}
'''Salzgitter''' ({{IPA|de|zaltsˈɡɪtɐ|-|De-Salzgitter.ogg}}; [[Eastphalian dialect|Eastphalian]]: ''Soltgitter'')<ref>{{cite book|last1=Krech|first1=Eva-Maria|last2=Stock|first2=Eberhard|last3=Hirschfeld|first3=Ursula|last4=Anders|first4=Lutz Christian|title=Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch|url=https://archive.org/details/deutschesausspra00krec|url-access=limited|language=de|year=2009|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-11-018202-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/deutschesausspra00krec/page/n903 892]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Mangold|first=Max|title=Das Aussprachewörterbuch|language=de|year=2005|publisher=Dudenverlag|edition=6th|location=Mannheim|isbn=9783411040667|page=695}}</ref> is an [[independent city#Germany|independent city]] in southeast [[Lower Saxony]], [[Germany]], located between [[Hildesheim]] and [[Braunschweig]]. Together with [[Wolfsburg]] and Braunschweig, Salzgitter is one of the seven ''Oberzentren'' of Lower Saxony (roughly equivalent to a [[metropolitan area]]). With 107,674 inhabitants and {{convert|223.92|km2|2|abbr=out}} (as of 31 December 2015), its [[area]] is the largest in Lower Saxony and one of the largest in [[Germany]]. Salzgitter originated as a conglomeration of several small towns and villages, and is today made up of 31 boroughs, which are relatively compact conurbations with wide stretches of open country between them. The main shopping street of the young city is in the borough of Lebenstedt, and the [[central business district]] is in the borough of Salzgitter-Bad. Over 70%(76,500) of the population lives within the [[urban aggomeration]] of [[Braunschweig]] but most of the area is within the [[urban agglomeration]] of [[Hildesheim]] and 54.1% of the city's population within the Braunschweig urban agglomeration have a migration background, which is 41,386 people. The city is part of two urban agglomeration, Hildesheim and Braunschweig, because of its uneven distribution of urban quarters. Due to the uneven population distribution, the density of the areas within the Braunschweig urban agglomeration is over 1,500 people per km² with the Lebenstedt area having over 3,000 people per km². The city is connected to the [[Mittellandkanal]] and the [[Elbe Lateral Canal]] by a [[distributary]]. The nearest [[metropolis]]es are Braunschweig, about {{convert|23|km|abbr=off}} to the northeast, and [[Hanover]], about {{convert|51|km|abbr=in}} to the northwest. The [[population]] of the City of Salzgitter has exceeded 100,000 inhabitants since its foundation in 1942 (which made it a city ({{lang|de|Großstadt}}) in contrast to a [[town]] ({{lang|de|Stadt}}) by the German definition), when it was still called ''Watenstedt-Salzgitter''. Beside Wolfsburg, [[Leverkusen]] and [[Eisenhüttenstadt]], Salzgitter is one of the few cities in Germany founded during the 20th century.

==Name==
Until 31 March 1942, "Salzgitter" was the name of a town where the borough [[Salzgitter-Bad]] now is. From then until 1951, "Salzgitter" was the name of a borough of the city Watenstedt-Salzgitter that existed at the time. In 1951, the borough Salzgitter was renamed Salzgitter-Bad; the name Salzgitter, having thus been freed up, became the new and more succinct name of the city that had been called "Watenstedt-Salzgitter" until then. (Nowadays, "Salzgitter-Watenstedt" is the name of a small borough with a few hundred inhabitants.)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salzgitter.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/salz.php|title=Salz und Salzgitter|website=Salzgitter}}</ref>

==Geography==
Salzgitter is located in a wide dell coated with [[loess]], between the Oderwald Forest and the Salzgitter-Höhenzug ("Salzgitter Hills"). The city stretches up to {{convert|24|km|abbr=on}} from north to south and up to {{convert|19|km|abbr=on}} from east to west. The highest point is the hill Hamberg ({{convert|275|m|abbr=on|disp=or}}), located northwest of Salzgitter-Bad.

===Neighbouring municipalities===
The following cities, towns and [[Municipalities of Germany|municipalities]], listed clockwise beginning in the northeast, border on the city of Salzgitter. (As Salzgitter was founded on the area of the [[Wolfenbüttel (district)|district of Wolfenbüttel]], that district borders on Salzgitter in the west and in the east and is therefore listed twice.)

*Braunschweig (independent city)
*in the [[Wolfenbüttel (district)|Landkreis Wolfenbüttel]]: City of [[Wolfenbüttel]], Cramme, Flöthe (both belonging to [[Samtgemeinde]] Oderwald), Gielde (Samtgemeinde Schladen)
*in the [[Goslar (district)|Landkreis Goslar]]: Liebenburg, Wallmoden, Samtgemeinde Lutter am Barenberge
*in the Landkreis Wolfenbüttel: Sehlde, Haverlah, Elbe, Baddeckenstedt, Burgdorf bei Salzgitter (all Samtgemeinde Baddeckenstedt)
*in the [[Hildesheim (district)|Landkreis Hildesheim]]: Söhlde
*in the [[Peine (district)|Landkreis Peine]]: [[Lengede]], [[Vechelde]]

===City structure===
[[File:Salzgitter map.svg|thumb|Salzgitter and its 31 boroughs]]
The area of the City of Salzgitter consists of 31 boroughs ({{langx|de|Stadtteile}}; often called [[village]]s): Bad, Barum, Beddingen, Beinum, Bleckenstedt, Bruchmachtersen, Calbecht, Drütte, Engelnstedt, Engerode, Flachstöckheim, Gebhardshagen, Gitter, Groß Mahner, Hallendorf, Heerte, Hohenrode, Immendorf, Lebenstedt, Lesse, Lichtenberg, Lobmachtersen, Ohlendorf, Osterlinde, Reppner, [[Salzgitter-Ringelheim|Ringelheim]], Salder, Sauingen, Thiede, Üfingen and Watenstedt.

These 31 boroughs are combined to 7 towns ({{langx|de|Ortschaften}}). Each town has an elected [[mayor]] and [[town council]].

The towns with their boroughs are:
*Town North: Lebenstedt, Salder, Bruchmachtersen, Engelnstedt
*Town Northeast: Thiede, Beddingen, Üfingen, Sauingen
*Town Northwest: Lichtenberg, Osterlinde, Reppner, Lesse
*Town East: Hallendorf, Bleckenstedt, Drütte, Immendorf, Watenstedt
*Town South: Bad, Gitter, Groß Mahner, Ringelheim, Hohenrode
*Town Southeast: Flachstöckheim, Barum, Beinum, Lobmachtersen, Ohlendorf
*Town West: Gebhardshagen, Calbecht, Engerode, Heerte

==History==
===1300–1982===
Salzgitter originated in the beginning of the 14th century around salt springs near the village Verpstedt (later Vöppstedt). The name was derived from the neighbouring village Gitter (nowadays a city borough) as "up dem solte to Gytere", which means "salt near Gitter"; the first mention was in 1347. After 200 years of salt production at various springs, the [[peasant]]s in the area which is nowadays Salzgitter were chartered around 1350, but lost municipal law again when being transferred to the [[Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg]] in the beginning of the 16th century. Later, Salzgitter belonged to the [[Bishopric of Hildesheim|diocese of Hildesheim]]. When the diocese was transferred to [[Prussia]] in 1803, the municipal law was reconfirmed, but taken away once more in 1815, when Salzgitter became part of the [[Kingdom of Hanover]]. In 1830, a brine bath was established in Salzgitter.

After the Kingdom of Hanover was transferred to Prussia in 1866, Salzgitter became a Prussian municipality, which was chartered again in 1929. Prior to that, the towns Vorsalz and Liebenhall had been incorporated (in 1926 and 1928, respectively). Salzgitter now belonged to the [[Landkreis]] (district) of Goslar and included, apart from Salzgitter itself, also some small settlements like Gittertor, which is nowadays part of Salzgitter-Bad. In 1936, Kniestedt was incorporated; it is also part of Salzgitter-Bad now.

[[File:KZ-Außenlager Salzgitter-Drütte Gedenkstätte Hochstraße 2010-04-11.jpg|thumb|left|Salzgitter-Drütte concentration camp memorial]]
Due to the large [[iron ore]] body in Salzgitter, which had been mentioned first in 1310, the [[National Socialist German Workers Party|National Socialists]] founded the "[[Reichswerke Hermann Göring]]" for ore mining and [[ironworks|iron production]] in 1937. In order to facilitate an unobstructed development of the smelting works, a unique [[Administration (government)|administration]] structure in the whole area was conceived. Therefore, it was decreed in the ''Order about the area settlement around the Hermann-Göring-Werke Salzgitter'', effective from 1 April 1942, to form a unified city district ([[independent city]]). Towards this aim, the town of Salzgitter and the municipalities Beinum, Flachstöckheim, Groß-Mahner, Hohenrode, Ohlendorf and Ringelheim (7 in total, all belonging to the [[Goslar (district)|Landkreis Goslar]]) and Barum, Beddingen, Bleckenstedt, Bruchmachtersen, Calbecht, Drütte, Engelnstedt, Engerode, Gebhardshagen, Hallendorf, Heerte, Immendorf, Lebenstedt, Lesse, Lichtenberg, Lobmachtersen, Osterlinde, Reppner, Salder, Thiede-Steterburg (nowadays simply Thiede) and Watenstedt (21 in total, all belonging to the [[Wolfenbüttel (district)|Landkreis Wolfenbüttel]]) were merged to form the ''Stadtkreis Watenstedt-Salzgitter''. As the neighbouring municipality Gitter had already been incorporated in 1938, the young city initially comprised 29 boroughs in 1942. Together with the remainder of the district of Goslar, the new independent municipality was integrated into the [[Free State of Brunswick]]. In return, Braunschweig transferred the [[Holzminden (district)|Landkreis Holzminden]] to the Prussian [[Province of Hanover]]. In October, 1942, the [[SS]] established the Drütte concentration camp, a subcamp of the [[Neuengamme concentration camp]], to provide [[slave labour]] for the Hermann Göring Works.<ref>United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ''Holocaust Encyclopedia.'' [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005539 Neuengamme]. Accessed 18 April 2007.</ref> This large subcamp held 2,800 inmates. There were three concentration camps located in Salzgitter. During the war, Salzgitter was severely damaged by several [[United States|American]] and [[United Kingdom|British]] [[bombing]]s. After the war, the State of Braunschweig became part of the [[States of Germany|Land]] [[Lower Saxony]], and Watenstedt-Salzgitter became an Independent City in the "Administrative District of Braunschweig" (later [[Regierungsbezirk]] [[Braunschweig (region)|Braunschweig]]).

[[File:Grube Gitter-Georg - Schacht Georg - Totalansicht 1961.jpg|thumb|Georg mine in Salzgitter in 1961]]
In 1951, the city was renamed to "Stadt Salzgitter" (City of Salzgitter), while the borough Salzgitter was renamed to "Salzgitter-Bad", referring to the brine bath there. In the course of the local administrative reform of Lower-Saxony effective from 1 March 1974, the municipalities Üfingen and Sauingen (formerly Landkreis Wolfenbüttel) were incorporated, increasing the number of boroughs to 31. Iron ore continued to be mined in Salzgitter until 1982; in the former [[mining|mine]] ''[[Konrad mine|Schacht Konrad]]'' (Konrad mine), an [[Deep geological repository|ultimate disposal place]] for [[radioactive waste]] has been planned since 1975.

===Modern history===
{{expand section|date=May 2022}}

==Population development==
Population figures in order to the then area, i.e. until 1942 the contemporary quarter Salzgitter-Bad and from 1942 on the Independent City Watenstedt-Salzgitter and Salzgitter respectively. 76% of the population was developing near the City [[Braunschweig]] due to urbanization, closer proximity to a major city and other factors. Although a high concentration of the population lives near the larger City [[Braunschweig]], most of the area is near the Hildesheim agglomeration or in other parts 
{| 
| valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable" style="float:left; margin-right:5em"
|colspan="2"|'''Population'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salzgitter.de/rathaus/jahrbuch.php|title=Statistisches Jahrbuch 2021|website=Salzgitter}}</ref>
|-
!  Year!! Population
|-----
| 1821 || align="right" | 2,258
|-----
| 1848 || align="right" | 2,654
|-----
| 1871 || align="right" | 2,752
|-----
| 1885 || align="right" | 2,681
|-----
| 1905 || align="right" | 2,837
|-----
| 1925 || align="right" | 2,852
|-----
| 1933 || align="right" | 19,164
|-----
| 1942 || align="right" | 108,480
|-----
| 1946 || align="right" | 93,260
|-----
| 1948 || align="right" | 110,247
|-----
| 1950 || align="right" | 108,888
|-----
| 6 June 1961 ¹ || align="right" | 110,200
|-----
| 1965 || align="right" | 115,500
|-----
| 1970 || align="right" | 119,000
|-----
| 1975 || align="right" | 119,000
|-----
| 1980 || align="right" | 113,500
|-----
| 25 May 1987{{efn|Census amount}} || align="right" | 111,069
|-----
| 1989 || align="right" | 111,676
|-----
| 30 June 1997 || align="right" | 116,300
|-----
| October 2003 || align="right" | 109,632
|-----
| September 2004 || align="right" |108,614
|-----
| February 2005 || align="right" |108,174
|-----
| December 2015 || align="right" |101,079
|-----
| December 2016 || align="right" |103,668
|}
|}

===Immigration===

The [[foreigner-born]] population is 37,048 (32.8% of the total population) in 2023. 46.3% of [[Salzgitter]] has a [[migration background]] and majority of the nations are Middle Eastern or Eastern European [[countries]]. Salzgitter has the highest share of migrants to Germans in [[Lower Saxony]].  The areas with the highest percentage of migrants in Salzgitter are [[Steterburg]] with 57.5%, [[Seeviertel]] with 55.7%, [[Salzgitter-Lebenstedt|Lebenstedt]] with 54%, [[Lichtenberg, Salzgitter|Lichtenberg]] with 52.1%, [[Watenstedt]] with 48.4% and Bad with 46.4%. Most of the migrants live within the Braunschweig urban agglomeration. About 17% of the total population is Muslim in 2024, having the highest percentage of Muslims in the whole state and one of the highest in Germany.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://regionalheute.de/salzgitter/migration-in-salzgitter-eine-stadt-am-limit-eagiert-auf-buergerfragen-zu-salzgitter-1725460495/|title=Migration in Salzgitter: Eine Stadt am Limit?|first=Anke|last=Donner|date=4 September 2024|website=regionalHeute.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ankunftsquartiere-staerken.de/fallstudien/salzgitter|title=Salzgitter - Our latest events|website=www.ankunftsquartiere-staerken.de}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
| valign="top" |
|colspan="2"|'''Largest groups of foreign residents'''
|-
!Nationality || Population (2024)
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} || 10,421
|-
|{{flag|Syria}} || 6,632
|-
|{{flag|Poland}} || 6,139
|-
|{{flag|Kazakhstan}} || 2,591
|-
|{{flag|Romania}} || 2,579
|-
|{{flag|Russia}} || 2,259
|-
|{{flag|Bulgaria}}|| 1,349
|-
|{{flag|Lebanon}}|| 1,022
|-
|{{flag|Italy}}|| 815
|-
|{{flag|Tunisia}}|| 745
|-
|{{flag|India}}|| 622
|}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Präventionsketten Salzgitter |url=https://hage.de/media/projektvorstellung_dialogreihe_7-12-r_dr-_haerdrich_salzgitter.pdf |website=hage.de}}</ref>

==Religions==
The area of the modern city of Salzgitter originally pertained to the [[Bishopric of Hildesheim|diocese of Hildesheim]]. In 1568, the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] was established in Salzgitter, and two [[Superintendent (ecclesiastical)|ecclesiastical superintendencies]] came into existence: the southern part of the area of the modern city, the Superintendency of Salzgitter, pertained to the [[Province of Hanover]] and thus ecclesiastically to the [[Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Hanover]] (and, within it, to the [[Consistory (Protestantism)|Consistory of Hildesheim]]); the northern part (the Superintendency of Lebenstedt), however, belonged to the [[Free State of Brunswick]] and therefore to the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick|Evangelical Lutheran State Church in Brunswick]].

When the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter was created in 1942, the entire area was attached to the state of Brunswick both politically and [[ecclesiastic]]ally. Thus, all parishes of Salzgitter now belong to the Church of Brunswick. The two superintendencies are called ''Propstei'' ([[provost (religion)|provostry]]) today, and both the ''Propsteien'' Salzgitter-Bad and Salzgitter-Lebenstedt comprise additional [[parish]]es which are not within the city of Salzgitter.

Roman Catholics who after the Reformation moved into the city belonged, as in the [[Middle Ages]], to the [[diocese of Hildesheim]], which established a separate [[deanery]] in Salzgitter. All Roman Catholic parishes of the city now pertain to that deanery.

Besides the two major denominations, there are congregations in Salzgitter which belong to [[free church]]es. These include a [[Baptist]] parish, the [[Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)|Church of God]], [[Plymouth Brethren]], and the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]], as well as several [[New Apostolic Church]]es.

Due to the [[immigration]] of foreign workers during the 1970s, there are some [[Islam]]ic [[mosque]]s. According to calculations based on census data, Salzgitter in 2011 had the highest proportion of Muslim migrants of all major cities in Lower Saxony.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kartenseite.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/muslime-in-niedersachsen-gemeinden/ |title=Kartenseite: Muslime in Niedersachsen – Gemeinden |publisher=kartenseite.wordpress.com |date=2017-03-27 |access-date=2017-05-14}}</ref>

==Politics==
After the creation of Salzgitter a state commissar was set in place as provisional Mayer of the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter. After [[World War II]], the military government of the [[British Occupation zone of Germany|British zone of occupation]] installed the communal [[constitution]] of [[UK|Britain]]. Furthermore, there is an elected Council in place. The Council elects one of its members to [[Mayor]] (German: ''Oberbürgermeister'') as leader and representative of the city. Besides, since 1946 on there was the ''Oberstadtdirektor'' as the Chief Executive of the City Council. Since 2001, the office of the leader of the Council and the Chief Executive are merged into one, simply called Mayor. Being elected by the people, the Mayor represents the city and leads the Council.

==Coat of arms==
[[File: DEU Salzgitter COA.svg|thumb|upright=0.5|Coat of arms of the city of Salzgitter]]
Salzgitter's [[Coat of Arms]] consists of a silver [[Metallurgical furnace|furnace]] visible behind a silver [[pinnacle]] wall on which there is a [[buckler]] whose upper ground is green and adorned with two saltern instruments and whose lower ground is gold and adorned with a black sledge and black iron. On the red ground behind the furnace, there are two [[wheat]]en ears.

The Coat of Arms stands for the [[agriculture]], which is important for many villages of Salzgitter, on the one hand, and for the [[Industry (economics)|industry]], which led to Salzgitter's foundation, on the other hand.

This Coat of Arms is from 1951. Before, Watenstedt-Salzgitter had got a different one. Also the former town Salzgitter had got various coats of arms from 1854 on.

Like many German cities, Salzgitter has used the city's logo for some years. It is a green field with a white snaking way that narrows towards the [[horizon]].

==Transport==

===Road===
In the north of Salzgitter, there is an [[Autobahn]] (A 39) from Braunschweig to the [[Interchange (road)|interchange]] Salzgitter (where it is possible change to Autobahn 7 Kassel-Hanover). Salzgitter has got five [[Grade separation|grade-separated]] interchanges to this Autobahn. East from Salzgitter, there is the Autobahn 395 (Braunschweig-[[Goslar]]), which can be reached from Salzgitter by four interchanges.<br/>
Moreover, two [[highways]] go through Salzgitter.

===Railway===
Salzgitter has six [[railway station]]s. The most important one is in the quarter [[Salzgitter-Ringelheim]], the most central one in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt. There is no ''Hauptbahnhof'' (main railway station) in Salzgitter. Salzgitter-Ringelheim's station is located on the [[Halle (Saale)]]-Goslar-Salzgitter-Hildesheim-Hanover line. Another line leads into the [[Harz]] Mountains and to Braunschweig, passing [[Salzgitter-Bad]]. Salzgitter-Lebenstedt is the end of a local line coming from Braunschweig and passing the other train stops of Salzgitter.

===Public transport===
There are three bus companies in Salzgitter. The bus network is quite important considering Salzgitter consists of many spread-out villages.

==Economy and infrastructure==
===Media===
In Salzgitter, the daily [[newspaper]] ''[[Braunschweiger Zeitung|Salzgitter-Zeitung]]'' and the Sunday newspaper ''Salzgitter-Woche am Sonntag'' are published. There is the event calendar ''Salzgitter Szene'' and the [[online]] magazine ''Salzgitter-aktuell''. Furthermore, the local [[TV channel]] ''TV 38'' is broadcast by [[cable television]].

===Important companies in Salzgitter===
[[File:Salzgitter Stahlwerk.jpg|thumb|Steel plant of Salzgitter AG]]
* [[Alstom Transport]]
* [[Salzgitter AG]] (which had once been the ''Hermann-Göring-Werke'')
* [[Volkswagen]]werk Salzgitter
* Schaper & Brümmer
* [[MAN SE|MAN]]
* [[Robert Bosch GmbH]]
* SMAG
* [[IKEA]] built its biggest storehouse in Salzgitter

===Public institutions===
Salzgitter is seat of these public institutions:
*[[Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz]], the Federal Radiation Protection Office of Germany, founded in 1989
*Central Registration Office of the State Judiciary Administration of Lower-Saxony

===Education===
Since 1993, there is a site of the ''[[Fachhochschule]] Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel'', where you can study
*[[Logistics management|Logistics]] and transport management
*[[logistics management|Logistics]] and [[information management]]
*economical engineering/Traffic management
*Tourism management
*Sport management
*Media design.
In addition, you can study after having completed a study in the past
*[[Multimedia]]
and&nbsp;– by [[correspondence course]]&nbsp;–
*[[Quality management|Quality]] and environment management
*Sale management.

The other sites of the [[Fachhochschule]] are Braunschweig, [[Wolfenbüttel]] and [[Wolfsburg]].

Furthermore, there are several general-education schools (meaning that general knowledge is taught there in contrast to occupation-specific knowledge) and [[vocational school]]s, among them three [[grammar school]]s, the ''Gymnasium Salzgitter-Bad'', the ''Gymnasium am Fredenberg'' and the ''Kranich-Gymnasium'', the latter two located at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt.

For education outside school, there is the ''[[Volkshochschule]] Salzgitter'' with sites in Salzgitter-Bad and in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt.

==Culture and sights==

===Libraries===
There are three public libraries in Salzgitter. The main-library is located in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt (155,000 media) with branch-libraries in Salzgitter-Bad (42,000 media) and Salzgitter-Fredenberg (25,000 media).

===Theatre===
There is no theatre in Salzgitter nor any building used as one. Yet there are several representations at various places.
For example, in Salzgitter-Bad there is a society rooting in the students' theater of the local grammar-school that supports the amateur play. They act on various stages, with an auditory between 100 and 600 people. Furthermore, there are irregular performances of [[musical theater|musicals]].

===Museums===
*''Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder'' ("Municipal Museum Salder Castle"), free entry, 3500+ sqm of permanent exhibitions about geology, prehistory, history of the city and its region (e. g. about an ichthyosaur, the neanderthals of Lebenstedt, Salzgitter iron ore mining and processing), overall featuring 3000+ exhibits, each year additional special expositions, an outdoor area with technical objects, a working windmill, the [[ice age]] path with life-size animal models of mammoth and more.
*''Städtische Kunstsammlungen Schloss Salder'' ("Municipal Art Collection in Salder Castle")

===Buildings===
*In the quarter Salzgitter-Lebenstedt:
**City [[monument]] (''Turm der Arbeit'' – "Tower of work", the city's [[emblem]], constructed in 1995. The monument tells about the suffering of the forced workers and [[Nazi concentration camp]] prisoners while building up industry during the [[national socialism]], about the flight from home beyond the rivers [[Oder River|Oder]] and [[Lusatian Neisse|Neisse]], about the fight against the removal of the [[iron works]] and about Salzgitter's people's will to live and to rebuild.)
**Town hall (built 1959–1963)
**Ice sports hall (in far-east style)
*In the quarter Salzgitter-Bad:
**Old Town
**Thermalsolbad ("hot-springs brine bath")
**Protestant church St. Mariae Jacobi; military defence church built in 1481
**Catholic church St. Marien
**Former Nicolai church (nowadays event room)
**[[Salzgitter Bismarck Tower]]
**Former town hall at the market place
**Tilly house
**farm house in Kniestedt (now care for old people and music school)
**"Beamtensiedlung" (from 1930, dwellings of the employees of the smelting works)
*[[pilgrimage]] church in Salzgitter-Engerode, chapel built in 1236, one of Lower-Saxony's oldest pilgrimage churches with [[fresco]]s laid open
*Wasserburg (castle), [[Salzgitter-Gebhardshagen]], nearly 1000 years old
*Franzosenbrücke ("French bridge"), stone arch [[bridge]] over the river Innerste near Salzgitter-Hohenrode
*Salzgitter-Lichtenberg: Castle ruins, once built by [[Henry the Lion]], destroyed in 1552 and laid open again in the 1950s. Look-out and restaurant.
*[[Salzgitter-Ringelheim]]: Ringelheim Castle, former [[monastery]], founded in the 10th century, [[Secularisation|secularised]] in 1803. [[Baroque]] church built in 1694, including a precious [[Organ (music)|organ]]; [[crucifix]] from the workshop of [[Bishop]] Bernward of Hildesheim (around 1000); large castle park (''Schlosspark'')
*Salzgitter-Salder: Salder Castle with Municipal Museum, former emblem of the city; the castle built in the style of the "[[Weser Renaissance]]" around 1600 was domicile of the noble family von Salder in the [[Duchy of Braunschweig]], later domain of the [[duke]]; nowadays museum of local history; castle church Maria-Magdalena with a circular floor plan.
*Salzgitter-Thiede: [[Convent]] Steterburg, ladies' convent founded in 1003; there are still buildings from the 11th century. The house of the [[abbess]] was built in 1691. The church is from 1752. In 1938, the area was reconstructed to tenements.

===Other sights===
[[File:Salzgitter-See B 2005.jpg|thumb|Salzgittersee in 2005]]
*archeological [[Excavation (archaeology)|excavation]] from the [[Stone Age]] in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
*Farm house Salzgitter-Flachstöckheim with open-air stage and English Park (1756/1821)
*[[Salzgittersee]] ("Lake Salzgitter") in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, beach, water-ski, boats, inliners, diving

===Regular events===
*May: municipal sports week in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt
*May: museum festival in Salzgitter-Salder
*May/June: ''[[Schützenfest]]'' in Salzgitter-Bad
*June/July: Altstadt-Festival (a festival in the old town centre of Salzgitter-Bad) in Salzgitter-Bad

==Twin towns – sister cities==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}
Salzgitter is [[Sister city|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web |title=Freunde in Europa|url=https://www.salzgitter.de/rathaus/partnerstaedte.php|website=salzgitter.de|publisher=Salzgitter|language=de|access-date=2021-03-18}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|FIN}} [[Imatra]], Finland (1970)
*{{flagicon|UK}} [[Swindon]], United Kingdom (1975)
*{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Créteil]], France (1980)
*{{flagicon|RUS}} [[Stary Oskol]], Russia (1987)
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Gotha]], Germany (1988)

==Notable people==
[[File:Friedrich Schlemm.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Friedrich Schlemm]]]]
*[[Friedrich Schlemm]] (1795–1859), physician and anatomist
*[[Heinrich Ahrens]] (1808–1874), philosopher
*[[August Jäger]] (1808–1848), writer, led the effort at Nazification of the [[Prussian Union of Churches|Evangelical Church in Prussia]].
*[[Hermann Lattemann]] (1852–1894), balloon pilot, experimented with an early prototype of a [[parachute]].
*[[Wilhelm Wassmuss]] (1880–1938), diplomat, spy and part of the [[Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition]]
*[[Hagen Stehr]] (born 1941), German-Australian tuna breeder and entrepreneur
*[[Hans-Joachim Gehrke]] (born 1945), historian of [[ancient]] and [[classical antiquity]]. 
*[[Harald Weiss]] (born 1949), composer, director, screenwriter and free-lance artist.
*[[Christian Zwarg]] (born 1968), [[audio engineer]] and [[mastering engineer]]
*[[Şebnem Dönmez]] (born 1974), Turkish movie and TV series actress and TV show host.

=== Sport ===
*[[Wolfgang Dremmler]] (born 1954), footballer, played 310 games and 27 for [[Germany national football team|Germany]]
* [[Andreas Pospich]] (born 1961), footballer, played over 330 games 
*[[Peter Lux]] (born 1962), footballer and coach, played over 340 games
*[[Henrik Stehlik]] (born 1980), trampoline gymnast, bronze medallist at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]]
*[[Daniel Theis]] (born 1992), basketball player

==See also==
*[[Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons|Salzgitter}}
{{wikivoyage|Salzgitter}}
*{{Official website}} {{in lang|de}}
*[https://www.ostfalia.de/cms/en/ Website of the Fachhochschule Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel]
*[https://www.salzgitter-ag.com/?change_lang=en Website of the Salzgitter AG (owning the iron works)]
*[http://www.smag.de/ Website of the SMAG GmbH]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051029153638/http://www.vw-personal.de/www/en/arbeiten/standorte/salzgitter.html Website of the Volkswagen work Salzgitter]

{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Salzgitter
|North     = [[Braunschweig]], [[Hamburg]]
|Northeast = [[Wolfsburg]], [[Berlin]]
|East      = [[Wolfenbüttel]], [[Magdeburg]]
|Southeast = [[Halberstadt]], [[Halle (Saale)|Halle]]
|South     = [[Goslar]], [[Göttingen]], [[Kassel]]
|Southwest = [[Alfeld]], [[Paderborn]]
|West      = [[Hildesheim]], [[Hamelin]]
|Northwest = [[Peine]], [[Hanover]]
}}

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