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Home > Travel Germany > Germany Destinations > Bergen (Lower Saxony)
Bergen (Lower Saxony)
Germany is located in Central Europe and it shares borders with Denmark in the North, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the West, Austria and Switzerland in the South and Poland and the Czech Republic in the East. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea represent additional National Borders in the North. The official language of Germany is German and Berlin is the capital. The climate is quite pleasant with almost all variety of seasonal flavors as temperate, marine, cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers, occasional warm, tropical foehn wind and high relative humidity.
Germany is divided into 16 states which are further subdivided into 439 districts and cities. Germany is one of the largest European economy and the third largest economy in the world in real terms, placed behind the United States and Japan, and fifth behind the United States, China, India and Japan counted by purchasing power parity.
Bergen is a little town in the northern Celle district on the Luneburg Heath in Lower Saxony, Germany. This town is separated into twelve districts that include Becklingen, Bergen, Bleckmar, Belsen, Dohnsen, Diesten, Eversen, Hassel, Hagen, Offen, Sulze and Wardbohmen. The concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was situated in the Belsen district.
This town has 13,505 inhabitants, according to the census conducted in December, 2004. Members of the British military and their families, who were not included in the census, get the actual population to about 16,000. The Sieben Steinhauser, a group of dolmens dating from the Stone Age, is located in training space.
Bergen is definitely one of the popular tourist attractions in Germany. It is worth paying a visit while touring the country. This place leaves a pleasing and unforgettable memory and justifies the proud cultural tradition of Germany.
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