Lower Saxony
Hanover Region
Hildesheim

Alfeld

Alfeld is a town in the state of , . Located on the Leine river and situated approximately 20 km southwest of , it is the second biggest city in the district of in southern Lower Saxony and part of the Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg.
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  • Type: Town with 19,000 residents
  • Description: urban municipality of Germany in Lower Saxony
  • Also known as: “Alfeld (Leine)” and “Alfeld/Leine”
  • Postal code: 31061

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alfeld (Leine) station and Alfeld town hall.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Town hall
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The , a shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, , is an important example of early modern architecture. Commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt who wanted a radical structure to express the company's break from the past, the factory was designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Langenholzen and Röllinghausen.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village.

Village
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is a village.

Alfeld

Latitude
51.9869° or 51° 59′ 13″ north
Longitude
9.8253° or 9° 49′ 31″ east
Population
19,000
Elevation
145 metres (476 feet)
Abbreviation
“ALF”
United Nations Location Code
DE ALF
Open location code
9F3FXRPG+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240034850
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2958533
Wiki­data ID
Q486543
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Alfeld” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آلفلد”
  • Armenian: “Ալֆելդ”
  • Basque: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Basque: “Alfeld”
  • Bavarian: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Catalan: “Alfeld”
  • Cebuano: “Alfeld”
  • Chechen: “Альфельд (Лайне)”
  • Chechen: “Альфельд”
  • Chinese: “莱讷河畔阿尔费尔德”
  • Chinese: “萊訥河畔阿爾費爾德”
  • Chinese: “阿尔费尔德”
  • Chinese: “阿爾費爾德”
  • Czech: “Alfeld”
  • Danish: “Alfeld”
  • Dutch: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Dutch: “Alfeld”
  • Esperanto: “Alfeld”
  • Estonian: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Estonian: “Alfeld”
  • Finnish: “Alfeld”
  • French: “Alfeld”
  • Galician: “Alfeld”
  • Georgian: “ალფელდი”
  • German: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • German: “Alfeld an der Leine”
  • German: “Alfeld”
  • German: “Alfeld/Leine”
  • German: “Alvelde”
  • Hungarian: “Alfeld”
  • Irish: “Alfeld”
  • Italian: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Italian: “Alfeld an der Leine”
  • Italian: “Alfeld”
  • Japanese: “アルフェルト (ライネ)”
  • Japanese: “アルフェルト”
  • Kazakh: “Alʹfelʹd”
  • Kazakh: “Альфельд”
  • Kazakh: “الفەلد”
  • Kirghiz: “Альфельд”
  • Kurdish: “Alfeld, Leine”
  • Ladin: “Alfeld”
  • Latin: “Alfeld”
  • Latin: “Alfelda”
  • Lithuanian: “Alfeldas”
  • Low German: “Alfeld”
  • Low German: “Allefelle”
  • Macedonian: “Алфелд”
  • Malay: “Alfeld”
  • Middle Low German: “Alvelde”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alfeld”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alfeld”
  • Norwegian: “Alfeld”
  • Persian: “آلفلد”
  • Persian: “الفلد”
  • Polish: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Polish: “Alfeld”
  • Portuguese: “Alfeld”
  • Romanian: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Romanian: “Alfeld”
  • Russian: “Альфельд (Лайне)”
  • Russian: “Альфельд”
  • Serbian: “Alfeld (Leine)”
  • Serbian: “Alfeld”
  • Serbian: “Алфелд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alfeld”
  • Silesian: “Alfeld”
  • Slovak: “Alfeld”
  • Slovenian: “Alfeld an der Leine”
  • Slovenian: “Alfeld”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلفلد”
  • Spanish: “Alfeld”
  • Swedish: “Alfeld”
  • Tatar: “Альфельд (Лайне)”
  • Tatar: “Альфельд”
  • Tumbuka: “Alfeld”
  • Turkish: “Alfeld”
  • Ukrainian: “Альфельд”
  • Uzbek: “Alfeld”
  • Uzbek: “Алфелд”
  • Vietnamese: “Alfeld”
  • Volapük: “Alfeld”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alfeld”
  • “Alfeld (Leine)”

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