Celle (district)

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Celle

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State:	Lower Saxony
Capital:	Celle } } |- | Area:||1554 km² |- | Inhabitants:||178,300 (2001) |- | pop. density:||115 inh./km² |- | Car identification:||CE |- | Homepage:||http://www.landkreis-celle.de |- !colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#DEFFAD|Map |- |colspan=2 align=center| |} Celle is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Uelzen, Gifhorn, Hanover and Soltau-Fallingbostel. Contents 1 Geography 2 Coat of arms 3 Towns and municipalities 4 Miscellaneous 5 External links Geography The district is located in the southernmost parts of the Lüneburg Heath (Lüneburger Heide). The Aller river enters the district in the east, runs through the town of Celle and leaves the district in the northwest. It is joined by many tributaries coming from the south. Coat of arms The lion and the heart were part of the arms of the duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (also called Celle-Lüneburg, since Celle was the capital). The only difference is the number of hearts (the original coat of arms included more than one heart). Towns and municipalities Towns Samtgemeinden Municipalities Bergen Celle Eschede Flotwedel Lachendorf Wathlingen Faßberg Hambühren Hermannsburg Unterlüß Wietze Winsen Miscellaneous The town of Bergen is known for its southern quarter of Belsen, where the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen was. The village of Eschede north of Celle was the site of the Eschede train disaster on 1998, June 3, when an ICE high speed train derailed and 101 people died. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: [Special] [Official website] (German, English) Cities and rural districts in the Federal State of Lower Saxony in Germany Region Hanover Cities Brunswick | Delmenhorst | Emden | Oldenburg | Osnabrück | Salzgitter | Wilhelmshaven | Wolfsburg Rural districts Ammerland | Aurich | Grafschaft Bentheim | Celle | Cloppenburg | Cuxhaven | Diepholz | Emsland | Friesland | Gifhorn | Goslar | Göttingen | Hamelin-Pyrmont | Harburg | Helmstedt | Hildesheim | Holzminden | Leer | Lüchow-Dannenberg | Lüneburg | Nienburg | Northeim | Oldenburg | Osnabrück | Osterholz | Osterode | Peine | Rotenburg | Schaumburg | Soltau-Fallingbostel | Stade | Uelzen | Vechta | Verden | Wesermarsch | Wittmund | Wolfenbüttel   From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details. Search Titles 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ? E-mail this article to: Personal Message: