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Hildesheim

Country
Germany
State
Lower Saxony
City
Hildesheim
Type of Location
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How to Reach

By Train

The Hildesheim Hauptbahnhof is ICE -maintenance and has a terminal for the loading of vehicles on car trains.is on the railway lines Kassel - Berlin (" Hildesheimer loop "and railway Hildesheim-Braunschweig ), Hannover, Salzgitter Ringelheim - Bad Harzburg Halle (Saale) ( Hildesheim, Goslar railway line ), Hameln - Bodenburg (" Weser-Bahn ") and Hildesheim-Taught ("cross train").The railway lines to Bad Gandersheim, Seesen, Salzgitter and Peine were shut down since the 1970s. The former East Station is now only breakpoint.

By Bus

The public transport serve several bus lines city traffic Hildesheim GmbH.The Regional Transport Hildesheim GmbH operates most local bus routes into the hinterlands of Hildesheim.About the Hildesheim branch canal, the city is on the Midland Canal connected and has a small port along with a connected industrial area.Also located in the north a small airfield which is heavily used especially during trade fairs in Hannover.Between 7 August 22, 1905 March 1945 in the city frequented by the addition of USTRA powered interurban "Red Sprite" the streetcars of the municipal tram.About Sarstedt was a tram connection to Hanover.Since 14 December 2008 is on or about Sarstedt Sehnde a connection to the power of the S-Bahn Hannover.

By Road

Through the eastern city of Hildesheim leads the federal motorway A 7 Flensburg-Hannover-Wurzburg-feet.Furthermore, the following lead federal highways through the city: B 1, B 6, B 243 and B 494.

Key places to visit
City Theatre Hildesheim, Cathedral Museum Hildesheim, Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, St. Michael's Church, Mera Luna Festival


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Places to Visit

City Theatre Hildesheim

is a theater by the merger of the Municipal Theatre of Hildesheim and the State Theatre Hanover was formed in September 2007.The big house can accommodate nearly 600 people and has a retractable main stage, the 18 m wide and 12 m deep. The rear stage is 9 feet wide, 11 m deep and 6.5 m high.The orchestra pit has a vorfahrbares orchestra platform, which also serves as a proscenium and has a size of 40 m2.The TfN has two functions. First, the city theater TfN for city and district of Hildesheim.In the second function is TfN State Theatre and toured more than 60 locations in Lower Saxony, where it does dabble in other states.This is the first and only TfN subsidized theaters in Germany with its own musical company.It consists of 10 states dedicated trained musical performers and other guests. With the Musical Company will always German premieres on stage. Another peculiarity is that the side trips TfN plays well at places unusual for a theater. Including churches, town halls and parks will be recorded.

Cathedral Museum Hildesheim

is the treasure chamber and the Diocesan Museum of the diocese of Hildesheim.It is located in historic rooms on the south transept of the cathedral.In the course of Domsanierung from 2010 the neighboring St. Anthony's Church and part of the cloister will be converted into exhibition halls of the Cathedral Museum.The Diocesan Museum, the ecclesiastical art from throughout the diocese and beyond, united by the power of the Cathedral Museum was Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekins († 1870). He taught mainly Gothic one works from the parishes and from his private estate in the Domsammlung, prompting the proper storage and exhibition.The Cathedral Museum Hildesheim illustrates a thousand years, churches and art history in the Lower Saxony region.The Hildesheim cathedral over centuries is a collection of liturgical vessels, vestments, books and illustrated works of the highest quality.The Hildesheimer Marienreliquiar goes back to the early days of the diocese and is the founding legend of the Cathedral brought together.Especially valuable pieces, including that with gems ornate Bernward Cross, the Precious Bernwardevangeliar and Ringelheim Cross originated in the heyday of the diocese under Bishop Bernward († 1022), the councilor Sacramentary of 1159 in connection with its incipient saint worship.From the Baroque are magnificent monstrance and other gold and silver. Several of these art treasures are still used today in high festive occasions in the Domliturgie.

Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim

is an important by his Altagyptensammlung world-known museum in Hildesheim according to the Hermann Roemer and Pelizaeus Wilhelm is named.In addition the museum has an impressive Altperusammlung , the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe, as well as an extensive natural history collection with more than 300,000 objects.The Roemer-Museum Hildesheim in 1844 by an association called into being, since the true lawyer , senator and geologist Hermann Roemer as the museum's founder.The collection has other worthwhile areas of high international status, such as those on the stelae from the Ramesside period (13th century BC), where the worship of Ramses II in the form of his statue is displayed, and the worship of God Chapel Osiris-Baboon from Tuna el-Gebel (c. 300 BC).The collection of Chinese porcelain was in 1927 after the death of Ernst Ohlmer over to the museum.The collections and museum are at the beginning of the 20th Century has been in the possession of the city passed. Since 1992 there are 150 paintings by the artist Waltraute Macke Bruggemann and much of her graphic and drawn work as Waltraute Macke Brüggemann Foundation in the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim.

St. Michael's Church

St. Michael's was by Bishop Bernward at the beginning of the 11th Century began as his tomb and church under Bishop Godehard completed. The pre-Roman ("Ottoman") design concept combines the idea of "God's City" with a geometrically-square space planning. St. Michael's Church is considered consistently in the early -bound system erected church.In the 12th Century, to renew all but two nave pillars and in the first half of the 13th Century eventually extended to the west choir and the nave ceiling painted (genealogy of Christ) is executed.In addition to this ceiling painting as an important piece of equipment was the northern part of the Late Romanesque choir screen received.It is noteworthy that despite their Umweihung of St. Michael Catholic Church into a Protestant one in the crypt, yet always dedicated Catholic. After numerous changes over the centuries, St. Michael was destroyed after the war rebuilt in its original form and through glass windows by Charles Crodel completed is one of the most popular photo opportunities of the city and can therefore be described as an urban landmark. She is since 1985 UNESCO World Heritage Site and serves the city as a commercial motive on the brown signs to the Highway 7 because they are easier to memorize than by their distinctive form of the Hildesheim Cathedral.In 2010 in Hildesheim, celebrated the 1000 anniversary of the World Cultural Heritage.

Mera Luna Festival

is organized since 2000 music festival in Hildesheim.With steady attendance of about 23,000 people, it is next to the in Leipzig held Wave-Gotik-Treffen one of the biggest festivals of alternative music - and black scene.The Mera Luna takes place annually on the second weekend in August at the airport instead of in Hildesheim.It existed in parallel with the first Zillo Festival which took place originally in this place and went on from 2000 its successor after Zillo and the organizers had decided to go their separate ways.Organizers of the festival is the company FKP Scorpio concert productions GmbH , media is the music magazine Sonic Seducer.The musical focuses on genres like electro, medieval rock, metal, alternative rock, synth rock, and occasionally on Gothic.On two days to find an open-air stage and a stage appearances of different bands in the hangar instead.In addition there is one night in the disco program.As the campground parks serve both sides of the airstrip.

Right Time to Visit

March - June
September - December

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