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Jan 26, 2020 · Braunschweig has a Christmas market up there with the best in Germany, pulling in a million visitors each year. The big draw is the historic atmosphere of squares like Burgplatz, where stalls are framed by that lion, the cathedral, Dankwarderode Castle and the various half-timbered houses.
Braunschweig (German: [ˈbʁaʊnʃvaɪk] ⓘ) or Brunswick [5] (English: / ˈ b r ʌ n z w ɪ k / BRUN-zwik; from Low German Brunswiek, local dialect: Bronswiek [ˈbrɔˑnsviːk]) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser.
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3 Brunswick Palace (Braunschweiger Schloss or Braunschweiger Residenzschloss). It was rebuilt in 2007 after having been bombed out in World War II and torn down in the years to follow. Now merely the façade of the former castle with a shopping mall on the inside.
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Many of Braunschweig's most historic buildings surround the city center Burgplatz (Castle Square), including the 12th-century Braunschweiger Dom (Brunswick Cathedral), burial place of the famed Henry the Lion, powerful early Duke of Saxony.