{"id":593230,"date":"2021-06-22T14:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityzapper.kinsta.cloud\/geen-stad\/de-leeuwenstad-german-local-culture\/"},"modified":"2021-06-22T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:29:42","slug":"de-leeuwenstad-german-local-culture","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/www.cityzapper.com\/nl\/german-local-culture\/de-leeuwenstad-german-local-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"De Leeuwenstad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>De stad Braunschweig is ongeveer 1000 jaar geleden gesticht en ongeveer 850 jaar geleden breidde Hendrik de Leeuw de stad uit tot residentie. Vandaar ook dat Braunschweig de bijnaam Leeuwenstad heeft.<\/strong> In de stad zijn genoeg historische gebouwen te zien uit de middeleeuwen, maar ook modernere architectuur heeft een plek gekregen in Braunschweig. Een belangrijke herinnering aan de tijd van Hendrik de Leeuw is te zien op de Burgplatz met het machtige leeuwenstandbeeld. Ook in de Knappensaal van Burg Dankwarderode zijn elementen van de middeleeuwse schatten van de Welfen &#8211; die de stad door de eeuwen heen hebben gevormd &#8211; te bewonderen. Om meer te weten te komen over de geschiedenis van de Welfen in de 19e eeuw, kan een bezoekje aan het Schlossmuseum in het herbouwde Residenzschloss niet ontbreken. Een bijzonder modern gebouw waar je gegarandeerd een glimlach op je gezicht krijgt tijdens je stedentrip is het Happy RIZZI House &#8211; genaamd ter ere van de kunstenaar James Rizzi, die het huis op een cartoonachtige manier schilderde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":585492,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tip_category":[3382],"class_list":["post-593230","tip","type-tip","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tip_category-braunschweig"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>De Leeuwenstad Braunschweig<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Braunschweig is 850 jaar geleden gesticht door Hendrik de Leeuw en daarom wordt de stad ook wel de Leeuwenstad genoemd.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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