History – Hanover – Lower Saxony celebrates its 75th birthday with a ceremony – knowledge
Hanover (dpa / lni) – Lower Saxony is celebrating its 75th birthday with a big ceremony. Around 2000 guests were expected at the celebration in the Congress Center in Hanover on Monday morning – including former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) and former Federal President Christian Wulff (CDU). Both were also prime ministers of the state.
The ceremony began with classical music, accompanied by film recordings from the federal state – for example of the heather, apple trees or VW. In his speech, Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) described Lower Saxony as the “most beautiful federal state in Germany”.
Before that, on Monday morning, a smaller group came together for an ecumenical service in the market church in the state capital.
“75 years of Lower Saxony – that is a short period of time for an impressive development that has passed through all areas of our life in these 75 years”, said the CDU state chairman Bernd Althusmann according to the announcement.
After the Second World War, Lower Saxony was formed on November 1, 1946 from the states of Hanover, Braunschweig, Oldenburg and Schaumburg-Lippe. Where Lower Saxony is today, the Germanic Saxon tribe actually lived in the early Middle Ages. Your duchy was subjugated in the 8th century by the Frankish ruler Charlemagne. The dominion areas of the Saxons and with it the name migrated up the Elbe over the centuries to what is now Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony. In order to distinguish between the year 1300, the designation Lower Saxony was first used for the flat areas in the north.
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