St. Martin’s Church, Groß Ellershausen

St. Martin's is a Lutheran church in Groß Ellershausen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is significant as possibly retaining the oldest existing structure, its tower, in southern Lower Saxony.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Lutheran
Description: church in Göttingen, Germany
Also known as: “Martinikirche”, “St. Martini”, and “St. Martini (Groß Ellershausen)”
Address: St.-Martini-Straße 23, Groß Ellershausen, Göttingen, 37079

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Grundbachtalbrücke and Sankt Johannis.

Grundbachtalbrücke

Bridge

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Grundbachtalbrücke is a bridge, which is situated 2 km south of St. Martin’s Church, Groß Ellershausen.

Sankt Johannis

Church

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Sankt Johannis is a church, which is situated 3 km southeast of St. Martin’s Church, Groß Ellershausen.

The old Stadtfriedhof in Göttingen is a historic cemetery with graves of important scholars. It is the final resting place of no less than nine Nobel Prize winners: Max Born, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, Walther Nernst, Max Planck, Otto Wallach, Adolf Windaus, Richard Zsigmondy and Manfred Eigen. Stadtfriedhof is situated 3½ km east of St. Martin’s Church, Groß Ellershausen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Groß Ellershausen and Rosdorf.

Groß Ellershausen

Suburb

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Groß Ellershausen is a village in Göttingen, Germany. The village lies on highway B3, west of the southern part of the city proper, separated from it and the River Leine by the Autobahn A7.

Rosdorf

Town

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Rosdorf is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is approximately 4 km southwest of Göttingen. Rosdorf is situated 3 km southeast of St. Martin’s Church, Groß Ellershausen.