Architecture

Wolfsburg is proud of its architecture. Internationally renowned architects have left their extravagant marks. The city is designed according to the plans of architect Peter Koller. Alvar Aalto from Finland and Hans Scharoun from Berlin have left behind architectonic trails of contemporary history. Interesting accents of a young city -grown within half a century. Modern buildings like the Culture-center (Kulturzentrum, architect: Alvar Aalto), Congress Park and the Planetarium, the Artmuseum and City Hall. Wolfsburg's churches are also among the most significant creations of modern sacral architecture. Particularly worth seeing: Alvar Aaltos church of the Holy Ghost (Heilig-Geist-Kirche) and Peter Kollers St. Henry Church (St. Heinrich Kirche) in the shape of an emperor's crown. The Volkswagen factory with its clinker buildings on the banks of the Mittelland-channel, its production- and research facilities and the management high-rise is one of the town's landmarks.

 

The past is also at hand. Represented by the renaissance castle Schloß Wolfsburg and the romantic St. Anne church, as well as further romantic churches in Vorsfelde, Hehlingen, Hattorf and Mörse. In the burrow of Neuhaus a keep, in Fallersleben a castle and a long-standing brewery.

New edifices are emerging. The Autostadt, a 25 hectare landscape of parks and lakes, is an architectural staging of "automobility". The Science-Center Wolfsburg in currently under construction. Zaha hadid has won the international architectural competition and wants to arouse curiosity and the desire for discovery in Wolfsburg.