Celle

Celle is a metropolis and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The metropolis is located at the banks of the river Aller, a tributary of the Weser and has a population of about 71,000. Celle is the southern gateway to the Luneburg Heath, has a castle built in the Renaissance and Baroque fashion and a picturesque old metropolis centre with over four hundred wooden framed houses, making Celle one of the maximum outstanding individuals of the German

Timber-Frame Road. From 1378 to 1705, Celle was the official residence of the Luneburg department of the dukes of Brunswick Luneburg who were banished from their authentic ducal seat with the aid of its townsfolk. Celle changed into first mentioned in a report of A.D. 985 as Kiellu. In 1292 Duke Otto II the Strict 1277 to 1330, a Welf who dominated the Principality of Luneburg from 1277 to 1330 left Altencelle, in which there were a defenses in the shape of a round rampart the Ringwall von Burg because the tenth century and founded a square settlement through the existing fort four kilometers to the northwest.