The Volkswagen city of Wolfsburg

31 July 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

Wolfsburg Skyline © Cubanito

Wolfsburg Skyline © Cubanito

Wolfsburg is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig (Brunswick), and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG. Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt. Wolfsburg was founded on 1 July 1938 as the Nazis’ Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben (English: City of the KdF Car at Fallersleben), a planned town around the village of Fallersleben in order to house the workers of the newly opened Volkswagen factories, which were built to assemble the Volkswagen Beetle “people’s car” and remain there today, although Beetle production finished there in 1978, when it was transferred to Mexico for the final 25 years.   read more…

The Autostadt in Wolfsburg

18 January 2012 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  8 minutes

Customer Centre and Car Towers © Mokka

Customer Centre and Car Towers © Mokka

The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. It is also home to the largest glass doors in the world and the longest printed line. The line starts from outside Wolfsburg and travels through Autostadt to a point on a farm. It is about 4 miles (6.4 km) long.   read more…

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