Best Traditional German Lower Saxony: Hannover, Goslar UNESCO 1992, Hildesheim Cathedral UNESCO 1985, Bremen Rathaus UNESCO 2004, and Lower Saxony Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Germany travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional German Lower Saxony: Hannover, Goslar, Hildesheim, Bremen, and the Quiet Heritage Trail Most Travellers Skip Most first-time Germany visitors land in Munich, glance at Berlin, maybe ride to Cologne for the cathedral, then fly home. Lower Saxony, the second largest state in the country, somehow gets folded into a layover at Hannover airport and forgotten. That is a mistake. This is the part of Germany where Romanesque cathedrals from the year 1010 still hold morning mass, where silver mines worked for a thousand straight years, where heath flowers turn 70,000 hectares purple in late summer, and where a 1405 town hall still hosts the city council on weekday mornings. I spent ten days driving and training across the region last September, sleeping in a half-timbered guesthouse in Goslar, eating pickled herring at a Bremen lunch counter, and walking barefoot across the Wadden Sea mud at low tide with a guide who...