What is special about Wolfsburg?
The centre of Wolfsburg is unique in Germany. Instead of a medieval city centre, Wolfsburg features a new and modern attraction called the Autostadt. The old part of the city Alt Wolfsburg (de) shows some manor buildings in traditional framework style. Atop a hill by the River Aller is the Wolfsburg Castle. From Middle Low German Wolvesborch. By surface analysis, Wolf (“wolf”) + -s- + Burg (“castle”). The name originally referred exclusively to Wolfsburg Castle. The city was only founded in 1938 under the name Stadt des KdF-Wagens (after the prototype of the later VW Beetle).