Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a German-Prussian field marshal (1758–1766) known for his participation in the Seven Years' War. From 1757 to 1762 he led an Anglo-German army in western Germany which successfully repelled French attempts to occupy Hanover.
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Ferdinand's best known victory the Battle of Minden (1759).
″Ferdinand's Gate″ at the entrance to Vechelde palace garden
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Wolfenbüttel is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, the administrative capital of Wolfenbüttel District. It is best known as the location of the internationally renowned Herzog August Library and for having the largest concentration of timber-framed buildings in Germany, around 1000. It is an episcopal see of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick. It is also home to the Jägermeister distillery, houses a campus of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, and the Landesmusikakademie of Lower Saxony.
Wolfenbüttel Castle
The portal above the entrance to the HAB
Trinity Church
The herb liqueur Jägermeister is distilled in Wolfenbüttel.