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Welcome to Wolfsburg: A city to feel good in

Did you know that Wolfsburg is one of the greenest and healthiest cities in Germany and that its leisure facilities are outstanding?

Our city will surprise you: as a dynamic business location, as a leisure and adventure city, as a green recreation area and as a sports city. Around eight million visitors come to Wolfsburg every year.

The fifth largest city in Lower Saxony is considered one of the most important city foundations of the 20th century and celebrated its 84th birthday in 2022. It owes its foundation to the emergence of the Volkswagen factory. On July 1, 1938, the "city of the KdF car" was newly formed by a formal decree of the chief president in Hanover. At that time, just 900 people lived there in three small communities. Since 1945, the town has borne the name "Wolfsburg". Embedded in two large landscapes, the Harz Mountains in the south and the Lüneburg Heath in the northwest, a modern and cosmopolitan city was created in only two generations, in which more than 125,000 inhabitants live today.

The most important statistical data

  • Territorial area (01/2022)*: 20,453 hectares
  • Population (03/2022)*: 125,416 inhabitants
  • Employees subject to social insurance contributions (06/2021)**: 118,949
  • Commuters (06/2021)***: 76,839
  • Unemployment rate (12/2018)***: 5.0%.

*Source: Analysis of ALKIS data from the State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying of Lower Saxony.
**Source: State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony
***Source: Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency (employees subject to social insurance at place of work; unemployment rate based on all civilian labor force).

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  • phaeno

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  • The Wolfsburg pedestrian zone

    © Mike King

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  • View of the Autostadt

    © Autostadt

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  • Exterior view of Neuhaus Castle

    © Jens L. Heinrich

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  • The Designer Outlets Wolfsburg

    © designer outlets Wolfsburg

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  • The Wolfsburg City Hall

    © City of Wolfsburg

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  • Schiller Pond Wolfsburg

    Schiller Pond

    © Jens L. Heinrich

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  • View of the Autostadt

    © Autostadt

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  • The Fallersleben Castle

    © City of Wolfsburg

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  • Wolfsburg Castle

    © Jens L. Heinrich

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  • City Hall

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  • Power plant of the Volkswagen factory

    © Autostadt

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  • Wolfsburg Castle

    © Jens L. Heinrich

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  • Designer Outlets Wolfsburg

    Designer Outlets Wolfsburg

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  • Wolfsburg as a dynamic business location
  • Living in Wolfsburg
  • Outstanding leisure facilities
  • An internationally known cultural landscape
  • Sports City Wolfsburg
  • A shopping experience in a class of its own
  • Parties and events
  • Diverse architecture
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