Talk:Lower Saxony

message: The states are not called "Länder", they are called Bundesländer*. I´ve changed this. *Bund = Federation
--91.15.212.100 (talk) 10:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's actually not true. The formal term for the federal states in Germany is 'Land' (pl.: 'Länder') and only the colloquial name is Bundesland. That is to distinguish the federal states from countries, which is necessary because in German it's called the same (e.g. "das Land Belgien" meaning "the country of Belgium" and "das Land Niedersachsen" meaning "the federal state of Lower Saxony"). -- Clearmaker (talk) 21:25, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad German 

message: Should this article make mention of Lower Saxony's minority ownership of Volkswagen AG? Its a substantial stake and a unique situation for a political entity such as this. Texasfirebrand 00:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stake in Volkswagen

message: "Historically, Low Saxony esp. the southern regions or the Gottingen region sought a high degree of autonomy."
Quotation needed.
"Today, they have a NFB football (soccer) team in a football federation of non-recognized nation states who are not members of the FIFA.[citation needed]"
Taking this as an example of autonomy, is totally nonsense. 
If one of the thousands of football teams in Germany decides to become member of an obscure football organization, its a private matter. This has no meaning, especially not for the people of Lower Saxony. 
To improve quality, I delete this example.
I am native german and citizan of Lower Saxony, so I know what I talk about
hemmerling (talk) 16:37, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense example of autonomy, deleted 

message: this is outrages what has happened ?!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.202.26.240 (talk) 21:04, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why has the Info-Box Been Deleted ??? 

message: One should add something like: "Lower Saxony is home to the largest automobile (Volkswagen) and wind turbine manufacturer (Enercon) of Germany." Currently it kinda sounds like the state is only for farming and producing apples ;)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.246.2.125 (talk) 15:43, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

message: As usual... read this: "Lower Saxony's major cities and economic centres are mainly situated in its central and southern parts, namely Hanover, Braunschweig, Osnabrück, Wolfsburg, Salzgitter, Hildesheim and Göttingen. Oldenburg, near the northwestern coastline, is another economic center. ". They told me "centre" is BE and "center" is AE. I am not going to discuss this because it is impossible to decide if it is better to use one or another and I am not a native English speaker... But try at least not to switch form BE to AE or vice versa while writing in the very same line: it makes ortograph inconsistent. This is just a suggestion, though, for authors adding information to something written by others. --MarcelloPapirio (talk) 08:34, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad English

message: "Religion in Lower Saxony - 2011
	
Protestants 	50%
Roman Catholics 18%
Islam 3%
none 30%"
I would like you to add those percentages up. 
And then I would like all of you to be very, very embarrassed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.71.171.48 (talk) 12:32, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really, guys? 

message: The following sentence is not very precise, or even incorrect: "Furthermore, the state of Bremen forms two enclaves within Lower Saxony, one being the city of Bremen, the other, its seaport city of Bremerhaven." It is true that one enclave is the city of Bremen. The other one, however consists of both the city of Bremerhaven and some parts that do not belong to Bremerhaven, but to Bremen (parts of the harbor). 90.184.23.200 (talk) 21:03, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bremen, two enclaves 

message: Removed: "The TFR reached 1.53 in 2014." Sorry but I don't understand what it means. The only dictionary (Oxford) entry I could find is "transfer". Still doesn't explain anything. Wikipedia doesn't have a TFR entry that makes any sense related to this entry. If it's important and should be added please explain the word or give a link explaining it.
Another note, could some more demographics be added, not just the amount of foreigners. As a percentage of the total population would already improve things.NicoLaan (talk) 18:31, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics, TFR? 

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message: In the introduction the article states this:
"In rural areas, Northern Low Saxon (a dialect of Low German) and Saterland Frisian (a variety of the Frisian language) are still spoken, but the number of speakers is declining."
The statement about Northern Low Saxon is not correct in this way. All dialects of Low German spoken in Lower Saxony belong to the West Low German group which is also called simply Low Saxon. Northern Low Saxon is one dialect of Low Saxon that is spoken in Schleswig-Holstein, Southern Denmark, Hamburg, Bremen, the Northern parts of Lower Saxony as well as the North Eastern Netherlands.
But besides Northern Low Saxon, there is Westphalian Low Saxon spoken in the South East (e.g. around Osnabrück) and Eastphalian Low Saxon spoken in the South East of Lower Saxony (in the areas around Hannover, Brunswick, Göttingen and the southern Lüneburg heath). They are spoken on the countryside, to some lesser degree than Northern Low Saxon, but they did not die out.
I believe it would also be nice to add a section "Languages" to this article. --Dergrimm (talk) 15:31, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages in Lower Saxony