Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's headquarters and, until it was overtaken by Tesla Gigafactory Texas in 2022, the world's biggest car plant.

The Autostadt is a visitor attraction next to the Volkswagen factory that features the company's model range: Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati, Lamborghini, MAN, Neoplan, Porsche, Scania, SEAT, Škoda Auto and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

[3] Wolfsburg is located at the Southern edge of the ancient river valley of the Aller at the Mittellandkanal (lit.

The total annual precipitation is about 532 millimetres (21 in) which is quite low as it belongs to the lowest tenth of the measured data in Germany.

Only 7% of all observation stations of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German weather service) record lower measurements.

Some of today's urban districts, including Vorsfelde and the villages transferred to Wolfsburg from the county of Helmstedt, belonged to the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.

Fallersleben and other villages belonged to the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, which later developed into the Kingdom of Hanover and became a Prussian province in 1866.

[8][citation needed] In 1942, German authorities established the Arbeitsdorf concentration camp in the city for a few months.

During the German economic miracle Wolfsburg experienced a large influx of immigrant workers, especially from Italy.

In 1982, the A39, a side road of the A2 (Oberhausen - Hannover - Werder), was built as a direct freeway to Wolfsburg.

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.

The Autostadt is an open-air museum-theme park dedicated to automobiles owned and operated by Volkswagen.

The Autostadt also includes a planetarium, a Ritz-Carlton hotel, the Phaeno Science Center, the largest hands-on science museum in Germany, a water skiing resort, and a private art museum (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg) specialising in modern and contemporary art.

[11] Besides the Autostadt, another well-known and distinctive attraction is BadeLand, a beautiful wellness and relaxation centre with a bathing area and various saunas.

After this, citizens voted for a council that elected a volunteer mayor/lord mayor as the city's leader and representative.

Lower Saxony's Department of the Interior awarded the city of Wolfsburg's emblem in 1952 after it had been constituted in the association articles in 1947.

The symbols of the wolf and the castle reflect the city's name (canting arm) and do not have a historical, directly conveyed reference.

Volkswagen used a modified version of the Wolfsburg coat of arms as its steering wheel emblem, (and occasionally as a hood ornament, on classic Beetles) until the early 1980s, when it was replaced by the VW roundel.

[citation needed] The most famous professional sports club in the city is VfL Wolfsburg, established in 1945.

Also based in city is the tennis tournament Volkswagen Challenger, which has been held annually in Wolfsburg since 1993.