Hildesheim
Hildesheim is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Hanover, Peine, Wolfenbüttel, Goslar, Northeim, Holzminden and Hameln-Pyrmont.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 268,000 residents
- Description: district in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “DE925”, “Hildesheim (district)”, “Landkreis Hildesheim”, and “Landkreis Hildesheim-Marienburg”
- Neighbors: Hanover Region and Salzgitter
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Michael’s Church and St. Godehard.
St. Michael’s Church
Church
Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Church of St. Michael is an early-Romanesque church located in Hildesheim, Germany. It has been on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1985 due to the before mentioned early-Romanesque architecture and art found within such as the Tree of Jesse and the now relocated Bernward Doors.
St. Godehard
Church
Photo: Hoger, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
St. Godehard is a church in Hildesheim, Germany, formerly the church of a Benedictine abbey. It remained almost unaltered through the centuries and was not damaged much in World War II.
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Museum
Photo: Longbow4u, Public domain.
The Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim is an archaeological museum in Hildesheim, Germany. Mostly dedicated to ancient Egyptian and ancient Peruvian art, the museum also includes the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hildesheim and Moritzberg.
Hildesheim
Photo: Mey2008, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hildesheim is a town in Lower Saxony, north-central Germany. With a population of over 100,000, it is located southeast of Hanover on the Innerste river, a tributary of the Leine.
Moritzberg
Neighborhood
Moritzberg is a quarter in the city of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is on a hill in the west of the city, about a mile from the Cathedral. It was an independent market town until 1911. Moritzberg is situated 3½ km northwest of Hildesheim.
Lechstedt
Village
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lechstedt is a village, which is situated 4½ km east of Hildesheim.
Hildesheim
- Category: district of Lower Saxony
- Location: Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hildesheim” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هيلدسهايم”
- Aragonese: “Districto de Hildesheim”
- Armenian: “Հիլդեսհայմ”
- Basque: “Hildesheim barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Гільдэсгайм (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Гільдэсгайм”
- Belarusian: “раён Гільдэсгайм”
- Bulgarian: “Хилдесхайм”
- Catalan: “districte de Hildesheim”
- Catalan: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Cebuano: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Chinese: “Hildesheim Kūn”
- Chinese: “希尔德斯海姆县”
- Czech: “Zemský okres Hildesheim”
- Danish: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Dutch: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Hildesheim”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Hildesheim”
- Estonian: “Hildesheimi kreis”
- French: “arrondissement de Hildesheim”
- French: “Arrondissement de Hildesheim”
- French: “Hildesheim”
- French: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Galician: “distrito de Hildesheim”
- Georgian: “ჰილდესჰაიმის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הילדסהיים”
- Hungarian: “Hildesheim járás”
- Indonesian: “Hildesheim”
- Interlingue: “Subdistrict Hildesheim”
- Italian: “circondario di Hildesheim”
- Italian: “Circondario di Hildesheim”
- Japanese: “ヒルデスハイム郡”
- Kazakh: “Хильдесхайм”
- Kurdish: “Hildesheim”
- Ladin: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Latin: “Circulus Hildesiensis”
- Low German: “Landkreis Hilmessen”
- Macedonian: “Хилдесхајм”
- Malay: “Hildesheim”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hildesheim Kūn”
- Minangkabau: “Hildesheim”
- Northern Frisian: “Lunkreis Hildesheim”
- Persian: “هیلدسهایم (ناحیه)”
- Persian: “هیلدسهایم”
- Polish: “Powiat Hildesheim”
- Portuguese: “Hildesheim”
- Romanian: “Districtul Hildesheim”
- Russian: “Хильдесхайм”
- Saterfriesisch: “Loundkring Hildesheim”
- Slovenian: “Deželno okrožje Hildesheim”
- Slovenian: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Hildesheim”
- Spanish: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Swedish: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Turkish: “Hildesheim”
- Turkish: “Landkreis Hildesheim”
- Ukrainian: “Гільдесгайм”
- Uzbek: “Hildesheim”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hildesheim”
- Western Frisian: “Hildesheim (Landkreis)”
- Western Frisian: “Hildesheim”
- Western Panjabi: “ہلڈزہائم”
- “Districtul Hildesheim”
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