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43 unusual facts about Hildesheim


Basilica of San Zeno, Verona

As for the dating, some of the panels were made by Saxon masters of Hildesheim in the 11th century, while others are from Veronese masters (according to some scholars, including Benedetto Antelami himself).

Benno II of Osnabrück

In 1047 he became teacher at the Benedictine school of Goslar (Hanover) and, shortly after, was made head master of the cathedral school at Hildesheim.

In 1051 he accompanied Azelin, bishop of Hildesheim, on the emperor's Hungarian campaign and upon his return was made provost of the Cathedral of Hildesheim and archpriest at Goslar.

Berthold II of Landsberg

In 1484, this led to a serious conflict with the city of Hildesheim, known as the "Great Feud".

Clara Nordström

In 1903, she went to Hildesheim (Germany) and shortly afterwards to Braunschweig (Germany) in order to learn the German language.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit's great-grandfather had lived in Rostock, and research suggests that the Fahrenheit family originated in Hildesheim.

Dial tone

Invented by an engineer, August Kruckow, the dial tone was first used in 1908 in Hildesheim, Germany.

Diekholzen

Diekholzen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

It is situated approximately 7 km southwest of Hildesheim on the Beuster, a tributary of the Innerste.

Dorothee Elmiger

In 2008, she competed in Prosanova, a festival for new literature in Hildesheim.

Duingen

It is situated approximately 25 km southwest of Hildesheim, and 40 km south of Hanover.

Duingen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Freden

Freden is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Giesen

It is situated approximately 6 km northwest of Hildesheim, and 22 km southeast of Hanover.

Giesen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Gniezno Doors

Their place of manufacture has been argued to be Hildesheim in Saxony, Bohemia, Flanders (perhaps Liege), or locally.

Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim

His operations were far-ranging and his restless activity dominated the country from Stade to Kassel, and from Hildesheim to Maastricht.

Hans-Dieter Lange

Lange worked as an actor at the theaters of Hildesheim and Bonn and started to work for the East German radio in 1950 and the East German TV station in 1963.

Harsum

Harsum is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hemiunu

In his tomb he is described as a hereditary prince, count, sealer of the king of Lower Egypt (jrj-pat HAtj-a xtmw-bjtj) and on a statue found in his serdab (and now located in Hildesheim), Hemiunu is given the titles: king's son of his body, chief justice and vizier, greatest of the five of the House of Thoth (sA nswt n XT=f tAjtj sAb TAtj wr djw pr-DHwtj).

Henry Riggs Rathbone

Major Rathbone was admitted to an asylum for the criminally insane in Hildesheim and Henry and his siblings were brought back to the United States to be raised by their uncle, William Harris.

Holle

Holle is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Johann Baptist Alzog

He defended with ardour the Archbishop of that city, Martin von Dunin, during his persecution by the Prussian government, became vicar-capitular, professor and regens at Hildesheim in 1845, and in 1853 was appointed to the chair of Church History in the University of Freiburg (Breisgau); at the same time he was appointed an ecclesiastical councillor (geistlicher Rat).

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link

Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link (1738–1783), who taught him love of nature through collection of 'natural objects'.

Johannes Poeppel

On 1 January 1970, Poeppel became the commander of Panzergrenadierbrigade 1 in Hildesheim until 31 March 1973 and until 31 March 1978 of the 6.

Julie von Egloffstein

Julie von Egloffstein (1792-1869), countess, canoness of Hildesheim, was a German artist, encouraged in her work by Goethe.

Klara Löbenstein

Löbenstein was born in Hildesheim, Prussia on February 15, 1883 to merchant Lehmann Löbenstein and his wife Sofie (née Schönfeld).

Kodaikanal International School

in Hildesheim and the German Evangelisches Schulzentrum Leipzig in Leipzig, both in Germany.

Lamspringe

Lamspringe is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Leo of Vercelli

Born in Hildesheim, he was made an archdeacon by 998 and was appointed to the see of Vercelli as the candidate of the Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II following the assassination of Bishop Peter.

Nordstemmen

Nordstemmen is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Nydeggkirche

In 1956 bronze reliefs by Perincioli were inspired by medieval role models in front of San Zeno in Verona and the Cathedral of Hildesheim.

Ottonian art

Other important monastic scriptoria that flourished during the Ottonian age include those at Corvey, Hildesheim, Regensburg, Echternach, and Cologne.

Pius Bonifacius Gams

He filled various posts as tutor, vicar, parish priest, professor until 1 May 1847, when he was appointed chairs of philosophy and general history by the theological faculty of Hildesheim.

Ralph de Luffa

The scenes show some resemblance to works in Hildesheim and Cologne, and this resemblance may mean that Luffa was from Germany, or hired sculptors from there.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg

Henry wanted the celebrated monkish rigour and studiousness of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter - Henry himself was educated there - linked together with the churches under his control, including his favourite diocese of Bamberg.

Schellerten

Schellerten is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Sibbesse

Sibbesse is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Söhlde

Söhlde is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Thangmar

It is only in the account of the dispute between the Archbishop of Hildesheim and Archbishop of Mainz as to the right of jurisdiction over Gandesheim that Thangmar appears at times to be a partisan of Bernward.

Thangmar was distinguished both as a scholar and a statesman; he taught Bishops Bernward of Hildesheim, Meinwerk of Paderborn, and Benno of Meissen, as well as the Emperor Henry II.

Thangmar (Thankmar) (b. about the middle of the tenth century; d. probably at Hildesheim after 1022) was a German chronicler.

Zillo

Between 1996 and 1999 it took place at the airport in Hildesheim


Abraham Lewinsky

In 1890 he became rabbi to Weilburg, and two years later assumed leadership of the rabbinate of Hildesheim.

Adenstedt

Adenstedt is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer

In 1840 he was appointed pastor at Lamspringe, near Hildesheim; in 1851, superintendent at Catlenburg; and in 1855, consistorial councilor and superintendent at Buer, and member of the ecclesiastical court of Osnabrück.

Berthold II of Landsberg

Because of the unsettled conditions in Hildesheim, Berthold resided mostly in the castle of Rotenburg an der Wümme in the Bishopric of Verden.

Bröhn

From this observation tower there is a panoramic view in good weather over the Calenberg Land as far as Hildesheim and Hanover, to Lake Steinhude and also over the northern Weser Uplands.

Christian August Brandis

Christian August Brandis (February 13, 1790, Holzminden – July 21, 1867, Bonn), German philologist and historian of philosophy, was born at Hildesheim and educated at Kiel University.

Diekholzen

Several times a day, each village of the municipality is accessible from Hildesheim and from Alfeld by bus.

Emmerke

Emmerke is a part of the municipality of Giesen in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany.

Gondophares

In his study of Behaim's globe, E. G. Ravenstein noted: “Egtisilla, or Eyrisculla or Egrisilla: the letters “r” and “t” in the script on the globe look similar, is referred to in John of Hildesheim’s version of the ‘Three Kings’ as an island where St. Thomas lies buried”.

Groß Düngen

This was incorporated in 1974 into the borough of Bad Salzdetfurth in 1974 (with the exception of Egenstedt and Marienburg).

Große Kreisstadt

In some German states other terms are used, for example Große selbständige Stadt in Lower Saxony, conclusively assigned by law to the towns of Celle, Cuxhaven, Goslar, Hameln, Hildesheim, Lingen and Lüneburg in the course of the 1970s administrative reform.

Hezel of Hildesheim

Emperor Henry IV granted forest rights (Forstbann) at Coppenbrügge to Bishop Hezel of Hildesheim in 1062.

Hildesheim Börde

As a result, a federal facility for testing soil values was established at Harsum, part of Machtsum, which was located within the Hildesheim Börde.

Hildesheim loop

At Himmelsthür junction, 4.7 km west of Hildesheim, it connects with the double-track line from Hanover and Nordstemmen to Hildesheim, which runs east–west, at the 45.4 km mark.

John of Brunswick-Lüneburg

John II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1401), canon in Hildesheim, Einbeck and Mainz, son of Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Joseph Deharbe

Bishop Blum of Linsburg introduced it officially into his diocese the same year; the following year the bishops of Trier and Hildesheim did likewise for their dioceses.

Landwehr, Lower Saxony

Landwehr is a municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Leonard Goffiné

This book was ready in 1687, and in 1688 it received the imprimatur of the Vicar-General of Münster, and in 1690 the approbation of Rev. William Heimbach, Norbertine prior of Meer, and of Rev. John Dirking, Rector of the Jesuit college of Hildesheim.

Rainald of Dassel

A younger son of a rich Saxon count, Reinold I, Count of Dassel, and destined as such to be an ecclesiastic, he was sent to the cathedral school at Hildesheim in 1146, where he started working as subdeacon.

Salzgitter-Ringelheim

During the Thirty Years' War, Imperial and Catholic troops tried to reconquer the former Hildesheim estates and defeated a Protestant army under King Christian IV of Denmark at the nearby Battle of Lutter in 1626.

Socus

Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (ed.): Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie, Band IV (Q - S), Hildesheim, 1965, ss.

Vorberge

It is easily reached on the winding Landesstraße L 485 country road that branches off the B 3 in Alfeld, which runs northeast linking Alfeld with Sibbesse and with Hildesheim further to the north.

Wilhelm Wachsmuth

Wilhelm Gottfried Wachsmuth (born 28 December 1784 in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany — died 23 January 1866 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany) was a German historian and academic.