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Economy of Celle


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The East Hanoverian Railways run goods trains on several branch lines in the Celle area, including those to Wittingen, Soltau and Munster. Occasionally heritage trains and specials also run on these lines.

The Lehrte�Celle railway is an important route for goods trains and was converted in 1998 into a modern S-Bahn line.

A tramway network of 2 lines had been operated since 1907 by the Celler Stra�enbahn but this was closed and dismantled between 1954 and 1956.

North-south: the B 3 running north to Soltau/Hamburg and south to Hanover

Southeast-west: the B 214 running southeast to Brunswick and west to Nienburg

Northeast: the B 191 to Uelzen/L�neburg/Ludwigslust

Landesstra�e 310 via Fuhrberg southwest to the junction at Mellendorf on the A 7 motorway

Landesstra�e 282 east-northeast via Beedenbostel, Eldingen and Steinhorst to Wittingen

Landesstra�e 180 via Winsen (Aller) west-northwest to the motorway services of Rastst�tte Allertal, on the A 7

At about 35 km distance is Hanover-Langenhagen airport with international flight connexions.

The Army airfield at Celle is 4.5 kilometres southwest of the town centre on the edge of the district of Wietzenbruch. Operated as RAF Celle after the Second World War, it was from here in 1948/49 that supply flights to Berlin took off as part of the Berlin Airlift. Today the airfield is mainly used by the Army Aviation School (Heeresfliegerwaffenschule) as a training airfield for helicopter pilots.

Celle-Arloh airfield near the district of Scheuen is a recreational airfield. It also offers round trips over the town of Celle and the L�neburg Heath. There is also a glider airfield at Scheuen.

Celle harbour is only used by tourists today. From Celle the Aller is classified downstream as a federal shipping lane; upstream a weir prevents ships passing. In former centuries Celle was an important transhipment
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