Giesen
Giesen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 6 km northwest of Hildesheim, and 22 km southeast of Hanover. The municipality includes five villages:…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Municipality with 9,700 residents
- Description: municipality of Landkreis Hildesheim, Germany
- Also known as: “03254017”
- Neighbors: Hildesheim
Places of Interest
Highlights include Giesen Hills and Giesener Teiche.
Giesen Hills
Forest
The Giesen Hills are a ridge, up to 242.5 metres high, in the district of Hildesheim in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hildesheim and Sarstedt.
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.
Sarstedt
Town
Sarstedt is a town in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. It has approximately 18,500 inhabitants. Sarstedt is situated 20 km south of Hanover and 10 km north of Hildesheim. Sarstedt station is on the Hanoverian Southern Railway and is served by the Hanover S-Bahn.
Giesen
- Categories: municipality without town privileges in Germany, Einheitsgemeinde of Lower Saxony, and locality
- Location: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
52.1963° or 52° 11′ 47″ northLongitude
9.8989° or 9° 53′ 56″ eastPopulation
9,700Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)Open location code
9F4F5VWX+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 240038570OpenStreetMap feature
place=municipalityGeoNames ID
6552480Wikidata ID
Q635190
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Giesen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Giesen”
- Aragonese: “Giesen”
- Arpitan: “Giesen”
- Asturian: “Giesen”
- Basque: “Giesen”
- Bavarian: “Giesen”
- Breton: “Giesen”
- Catalan: “Giesen”
- Cebuano: “Giesen”
- Chechen: “Гизен”
- Chinese: “Giesen”
- Chinese: “吉森”
- Corsican: “Giesen”
- Croatian: “Giesen”
- Czech: “Giesen”
- Danish: “Giesen”
- Dutch: “Giesen”
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- Estonian: “Giesen”
- Finnish: “Giesen”
- French: “Giesen”
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- Galician: “Giesen”
- German: “Giesen”
- Hungarian: “Giesen”
- Icelandic: “Giesen”
- Ido: “Giesen”
- Indonesian: “Giesen”
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- Interlingue: “Giesen”
- Irish: “Giesen”
- Italian: “Giesen”
- Japanese: “ギーゼン”
- Kazakh: “Гизен”
- Kirghiz: “Гизен”
- Kongo: “Giesen”
- Ladin: “Giesen”
- Latin: “Giesen”
- Ligurian: “Giesen”
- Limburgan: “Giesen”
- Low German: “Giesen”
- Luxembourgish: “Giesen”
- Macedonian: “Гизен”
- Malagasy: “Giesen”
- Malay: “Giesen”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Giesen”
- Minangkabau: “Giesen”
- Narom: “Giesen”
- Neapolitan: “Giesen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Giesen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Giesen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Giesen”
- Persian: “گیزن”
- Picard: “Giesen”
- Piemontese: “Giesen”
- Polish: “Giesen”
- Portuguese: “Giesen”
- Romanian: “Giesen”
- Romansh: “Giesen”
- Russian: “Гизен”
- Sardinian: “Giesen”
- Scots: “Giesen”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Giesen”
- Serbian: “Giesen”
- Serbian: “Гизен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Giesen”
- Sicilian: “Giesen”
- Slovak: “Giesen”
- Slovenian: “Giesen”
- Spanish: “Giesen”
- Swahili: “Giesen”
- Swedish: “Giesen”
- Swiss German: “Giesen”
- Tatar: “Гизен”
- Turkish: “Giesen”
- Ukrainian: “Гізен”
- Uzbek: “Giesen”
- Venetian: “Giesen”
- Vietnamese: “Giesen”
- Vlaams: “Giesen”
- Volapük: “Giesen”
- Walloon: “Giesen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Giesen”
- Welsh: “Giesen”
- Wolof: “Giesen”
- Zulu: “Giesen”
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