Hamelin
Hamelin is a town in Lower Saxony, 50 km southwest of Hanover. It is the scene of the Pied Piper story, about the man who expelled rats from the town by playing the pipe, and then abducted the town's children when the citizenry refused to pay him what they had agreed.
- Type: Town with 56,300 residents
- Description: town in Hamelin-Pyrmont District, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Also known as: “Hāmelina”, “Hameln”, and “Rattenfängerstadt Hameln”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hameln station and Pied Piper’s House.
Hameln station
Railway station
Pied Piper’s House
Hamelin
Latitude
52.104° or 52° 6′ 14″ north
Longitude
9.3562° or 9° 21′ 22″ east
Population
56,300
Elevation
74 metres (243 feet)
IATA airport code
ZEZ
UN/LOCODE
DE HAN
Open location code
9F4F4934+HF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Hamelin” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hameln”
- Arabic: “هاملن”
- Aragonese: “Hamelín”
- Aragonese: “Hameln”
- Armenian: “Համելն”
- Arpitan: “Hameln”
- Asturian: “Hameln”
- Basque: “Hamelin”
- Bavarian: “Hameln”
- Belarusian: “Гамельн”
- Belarusian: “Гамэльн”
- Belarusian: “Хамельн”
- Breton: “Hamelin”
- Breton: “Hameln”
- Bulgarian: “Хамелн”
- Catalan: “Hamelin”
- Catalan: “Hamelín”
- Cebuano: “Hameln (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Hameln”
- Chechen: “Хамельн”
- Chinese: “哈默尔恩”
- Chinese: “哈默爾恩”
- Corsican: “Hameln”
- Croatian: “Hameln”
- Czech: “Hameln”
- Danish: “Hameln”
- Dutch: “Hamelen”
- Dutch: “Hameln”
- Esperanto: “Hameln”
- Estonian: “Hameln”
- Finnish: “Hameln”
- French: “Hamelin”
- Friulian: “Hameln”
- Galician: “Hameln”
- Georgian: “ჰამელნი”
- German: “Hameln”
- Greek: “Χάμελιν”
- Greek: “Χάμελν”
- Hebrew: “המלין”
- Hungarian: “Hameln”
- Icelandic: “Hameln”
- Ido: “Hameln”
- Indonesian: “Hameln”
- Interlingua: “Hamelin”
- Interlingua: “Hameln”
- Interlingue: “Hameln”
- Irish: “Hameln”
- Italian: “Hamelin”
- Italian: “Hameln”
- Japanese: “ハーメルン”
- Jèrriais: “Hameln”
- Kazakh: “Хамельн”
- Kirghiz: “Хамельн”
- Kongo: “Hameln”
- Korean: “하멜른”
- Kotava: “Hamelin”
- Kurdish: “Hameln”
- Ladin: “Hamelin”
- Ladin: “Hameln”
- Latin: “Hamala”
- Latvian: “Hāmelne”
- Ligurian: “Hameln”
- Limburgan: “Hameln”
- Lithuanian: “Hamelnas”
- Low German: “Hameln”
- Luxembourgish: “Hameln”
- Macedonian: “Хамелн”
- Malagasy: “Hameln”
- Malay: “Hamelin”
- Minangkabau: “Hameln”
- Neapolitan: “Hameln”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hameln”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hameln”
- Norwegian: “Hameln”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hameln”
- Persian: “هاملن”
- Picard: “Hameln”
- Piemontese: “Hameln”
- Polish: “Hameln”
- Portuguese: “Hamelin”
- Portuguese: “Hameln”
- Romanian: “Hamelin”
- Romansh: “Hameln”
- Russian: “Хамельн”
- Sardinian: “Hameln”
- Scots: “Hamelin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hameln”
- Serbian: “Hameln”
- Serbian: “Хамелн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hameln”
- Sicilian: “Hameln”
- Slovak: “Hameln”
- Slovenian: “Hamelin”
- Slovenian: “Hameln”
- South Azerbaijani: “هاملن”
- Spanish: “Hamelín”
- Swahili: “Hameln”
- Swedish: “Hameln”
- Swiss German: “Hameln”
- Tatar: “Һамелн”
- Turkish: “Hamelin”
- Turkish: “Hameln”
- Ukrainian: “Гамельн”
- Urdu: “ہاملن”
- Uzbek: “Hameln”
- Venetian: “Hameln”
- Vietnamese: “Hameln”
- Vlaams: “Hameln”
- Volapük: “Hameln”
- Walloon: “Hameln”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hamelin”
- Welsh: “Hameln”
- Western Frisian: “Hamelen”
- Wolof: “Hameln”
- Wu Chinese: “哈默尔恩”
- Zulu: “Hameln”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Mitte/Altstadt and West/Klütviertel.
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