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unusual facts about St. Andreas, 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Diekholzen

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

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

Duingen

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

Emmerke

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

Giesen

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

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

Landwehr, Lower Saxony

Landwehr is 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

St. Andreas, Düsseldorf

It was originally a Jesuit church and also served as the court church for the Counts palatine of Neuburg.

Paintings by Ernst Deger can be found in the church's two side altars which are dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

St. Andreas, Hildesheim

The earliest church building on the Treibeinsel dedicated to the Apostle Andreas (Andrew) was a simple pre-Romanesque chapel, which already existed at the death of Bishop Bernward in 1022.

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.


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