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Hildesheim

Hildesheim

Hildesheim is a city in , in north-central with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of , about 30 km southeast of on the banks of the River, a small tributary of the Leine River.
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  • Type: City with 102,000 residents
  • Description: city in Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Also known as: “Stadt Hildesheim”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Michael’s Church and Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim.

Church
Photo: Heinz-Josef Lücking, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Church of St. Michael is an early-Romanesque church located in Hildesheim, . 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.

Museum
Photo: Longbow4u, Public domain.
The 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.

Church
Photo: Hoger, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moritzberg and Barienrode.

Neighborhood
is a quarter in the city of Hildesheim in , . 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.

Village
Photo: Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Hildesheim

Latitude
52.1527° or 52° 9′ 10″ north
Longitude
9.9518° or 9° 57′ 7″ east
Population
102,000
Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)
IATA airport code
ZNO
United Nations Location Code
DE HIL
Open location code
9F4F5X32+3P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18318938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2904789
Wiki­data ID
Q3185
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Hildesheim” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Hildesheim”
  • Afrikaans: “Hildesheim”
  • Albanian: “Hildesheim”
  • Arabic: “هلدسهايم”
  • Arabic: “هيلدسهايم”
  • Aragonese: “Hildesheim”
  • Armenian: “Հիլդեսհայմ”
  • Arpitan: “Hildesheim”
  • Asturian: “Hildesheim”
  • Atikamekw: “Hildesheim”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hildeshaym”
  • Balinese: “Hildesheim”
  • Bashkir: “Хильдесхайм”
  • Basque: “Hildesheim”
  • Bavarian: “Hildesheim”
  • Belarusian: “Гільдэсгайм”
  • Belarusian: “Гільдэсгейм”
  • Belarusian: “Хільдэсхайм”
  • Bengali: “হিলডেশেইম”
  • Bosnian: “Hildesheim”
  • Breton: “Hildesheim”
  • Bulgarian: “Хилдесхайм”
  • Cajun French: “Hildesheim”
  • Catalan: “Hildesheim”
  • Cebuano: “Hildesheim (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Hildesheim”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێلدس ھایم”
  • Chechen: “Хильдесхайм”
  • Chinese: “Hildesheim”
  • Chinese: “喜迪堪”
  • Chinese: “希尔德斯海姆”
  • Chinese: “希德斯海姆”
  • Chinese: “希爾德斯海姆”
  • Cornish: “Hildesheim”
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  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيلدسهايم”
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  • Galician: “Hildesheim”
  • Georgian: “ჰილდესჰაიმი”
  • German: “DE-HI”
  • German: “HI”
  • German: “Hildesheim”
  • German: “Hilmessen”
  • German: “Hilmssen”
  • Greek: “Χίλντεσχαϊμ”
  • Gujarati: “હિલ્ડેશૈમ”
  • Hebrew: “הילדסהיים”
  • Hindi: “हिल्डशेइम”
  • Hungarian: “Hildesheim”
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  • Japanese: “ヒルデスハイム”
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  • Kannada: “ಹೈಲ್ಡೆಶೇಯ್ಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хильдесхайм”
  • Kirghiz: “Хильдесхайм”
  • Kölsch: “Hildesheim”
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  • Korean: “힐데스하임”
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  • Latin: “Hildesia”
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  • Low German: “Hildesheim”
  • Low German: “Hilmessen”
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  • Macedonian: “Хилдесхајм”
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  • Pennsylvania German: “Hildesheim”
  • Persian: “هلدس‌هایم”
  • Persian: “هیلدس‌هایم”
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  • Pfaelzisch: “Hildesheim”
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  • Russian: “Хильдесхайм”
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  • Serbian: “Хилдесхајм”
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  • Sinhala: “හිල්ඩසයිම්”
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  • South Azerbaijani: “هیلدس‌هایم”
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  • Swedish: “Hildesheim”
  • Swiss German: “Hildesheim”
  • Tagalog: “Hildesheim”
  • Tahitian: “Hildesheim”
  • Tamil: “ஹில்டஷிம்”
  • Tatar: “Һилдесһайм”
  • Telugu: “హిల్డిస్ హైమ్”
  • Thai: “ฮิลเดสไฮม์”
  • Thai: “ฮิลเดิสไฮม์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Hildesheim”
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  • Tosk Albanian: “Hildesheim”
  • Tumbuka: “Hildesheim”
  • Turkish: “DE-HI”
  • Turkish: “HI”
  • Turkish: “Hildesheim”
  • Ukrainian: “Гільдесгайм”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hildesheim”
  • Urdu: “حیلدیشیم”
  • Urdu: “ہیلڈیشیام”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Hildesheim”
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  • Western Frisian: “Hildesheim”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیلڈشیم”
  • Wolof: “Hildesheim”
  • Wu Chinese: “希尔德斯海姆”
  • Xhosa: “Hildesheim”
  • Yiddish: “הילדוסים”
  • Yoruba: “Hildesheim”
  • Yue Chinese: “喜迪堪”
  • Zeeuws: “Hildesheim”
  • Zulu: “Hildesheim”
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