The best running trails around Weberkuhle

The oldest house in Nienburg is located at Kleine Kirchstraße 2, directly next to St. Martin's Church. It was built around 1490-1500 and is part of the original development around the church.

Nienburg's oldest house stands at Kleine Kirchstraße 2, right next to St. Martin's Church. It was built around 1490-1500 and is part of the original development surrounding the church. Its slightly crooked appearance is not without reason, as naturally grown oak beams had to be used for economic reasons at the time, and so the inhabitants quite naturally lived on a sloping floor. This is still visible from the outside today, as the house's basic structure has been preserved. Also, almost nothing has changed in the surrounding area. The unique location next to the chancel of St. Martin's Church prevented any alterations. In and around the house, one can easily imagine oneself transported back to a time over 500 years ago. At that time, castles were being replaced by urban fortresses, and Nienburg became the strongest fortress in the Middle Weser region. It was the time of Copernicus, Columbus, Riemenschneider, Dürer, and Leonardo da Vinci, who was competing with Michelangelo in Italy and had just completed what is now the world's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa. Humanity still believed it lived on a flat surface and could only feel somewhat safe behind fortress walls. Source: https://www.pension-st-martin.de/Wie-alles-begann

The glacial erratics from Småland in Nienburg/Weser are impressive relics of a natural history dating back tens of thousands of years. These large, often smoothly polished boulders originally came from the southern Swedish region of Småland and were transported to northern Germany by mighty glaciers during the last Ice Age. As the ice sheet slowly moved south, it tore rocks from the Scandinavian bedrock and carried them over long distances. When the ice melted, these so-called erratics were left behind in the landscape – far from their place of origin. Such glacial erratics, which can be geologically clearly attributed to Sweden, can also be found in Nienburg. Their composition, such as granite or gneiss, as well as characteristic structures, allow conclusions to be drawn about their Småland origin. They thus vividly illustrate the immense forces of the Ice Age and demonstrate how profoundly glaciers shaped the landscape we see today. The glacial erratics are silent witnesses to history, forging a connection between the Nienburg region and Scandinavia. Beyond their geological significance, these erratics also play a cultural and design role. In Nienburg, they are deliberately used as striking elements in the cityscape and green spaces, serving simultaneously as a starting point for environmental education and the preservation of historical memory.

The town hall is one of the oldest and most impressive buildings in the city. The first town hall tower, featuring a bell, was built in 1614. It received its current form in 1778/79 and was renovated in 2012.

Also great and interesting is the Lower Saxony Police Museum at Lange Str. 20.

Small harbor on the Weser. To go around by bike and then head north towards Drakenburg.

The Benedictine monastery was initially founded in Thankmarsfelde in 970 and moved to Nienburg in 975. The church was consecrated in 1004 and burned down in 1042. Only a remnant of the foundation remains of this building under the southern choir room of today's building. The successor building to the Nienburg monastery, built between 1042 and 1060, was built by Emperor Heinrich III. promoted and had a typical Saxon floor plan with a cross-shaped eastern section consisting of a transept, choir square and three apses and a three-aisled nave with alternating supports. This building had a gallery transverse building in the west and a crypt under the choir, of which a window can still be seen in the southern choir room.

The Lower Saxony police history collection was compiled in 1987 and was housed in a 1,400 square meter exhibition area in Hanover-Ricklingen in a former production hall on the factory premises of the former radio equipment manufacturer Telefunken in 2001 and made accessible to the public.[6] It was open two days a week and upon request. According to its own information, the museum had around 7,000 visitors annually, and 1,000 guests at the Hanover Long Night of Museums alone.