Wittmar is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

For several hundred years, salt has been mined in Asse, a small mountain range in the district of Wolfenbüttel.

One of these mines, Schacht Asse II, is now used to store low- and medium-grade radioactive waste produced by medicine and nuclear power plants.

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