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The capital of Lower Saxony is the historic city of Hanover. It has an irregularly built old town with many quaint stucco-front houses and a highly industrialized modern city. There are many beautiful parks, gardens, museums, and picture galleries to house a rich collection of art. For years the city has attracted foreign students eager to study Hanover's reputedly pure form of the German language. The city is a major traffic junction of northern Germany. It is a financial and commercial center. Its many manufactured products include motor vehicles and machinery. In the war between Prussia and Austria in 1866, Hanover was allied with Austria, and the victorious Prussia then annexed Hanover as a province. After World War II it was made part of the new state of Lower Saxony. As a center of industry and transportation, it was heavily bombed in World War II, and many historic buildings were destroyed. By the 1960s, however, the city had been largely reconstructed. Population (1989 estimate), 505,700.
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