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Seelze
Town
Coat of arms of Seelze
Coat of arms
Location of Seelze within Hanover district
Hanover RegionLower SaxonyWedemarkBurgwedelNeustadt am RübenbergeBurgdorfUetzeLehrteIsernhagenLangenhagenGarbsenWunstorfSeelzeBarsinghausenSehndeHanoverGehrdenLaatzenWennigsenRonnenbergHemmingenPattensenSpringeHamelin-PyrmontSchaumburgNienburg (district)HeidekreisCelle (district)Peine (district)Gifhorn (district)Hildesheim (district)
Seelze is located in Germany
Seelze
Seelze
Seelze is located in Lower Saxony
Seelze
Seelze
Coordinates: 52°23′46″N 09°35′53″E / 52.39611°N 9.59806°E / 52.39611; 9.59806
CountryGermany
StateLower Saxony
DistrictHanover
Government
 • Mayor (2021–26) Alexander Masthoff[1] (SPD)
Area
 • Total54 km2 (21 sq mi)
Elevation
50 m (160 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total34,742
 • Density640/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
30926
Dialling codes05137, 0511, 05031
Vehicle registrationH
Websitewww.seelze.de

Seelze is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leine, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Hanover. Today Seelze mainly plays the role of a bedroom town for commuters working in Hanover.

Division of the town[edit]

  • Seelze (city centre)
  • Letter
  • Almhorst
  • Dedensen
  • Lohnde
  • Döteberg
  • Harenberg
  • Gümmer
  • Velber
  • Kirchwehren
  • Lathwehren

Museum[edit]

The local museum and museum of local history (German: Heimatmuseum Seelze) is situated in a timber-framed building from 1856 at the incorporated district of Letter. Subjects of the museum include history of Seelze and its incorporated villages, history of the integration of German postwar refugees from former German territories that are now a part of Russia and Poland, and history of the Seelze marshalling yard (German: Rangierbahnhof). About tree times a year special exhibitions are shown. The permanent exhibition shows a shoemaker's workshop from about 1930, a hairdresser's shop from about 1920, a schoolroom of a village from about 1900, and a living room of about 1900.[3]

Transport[edit]

Railway[edit]

Seelze and its subdivisions have three stations on the Hanover S-Bahn network: Letter, Seelze and Dedensen/Gümmer. All are located on the lines S1 and S2.

The Seelze marshalling yard  [de ] is an important marshalling yard in Germany. It is located on the "Freight train bypass Hanover" (Wunstorf – Lehrte) and has 51 classification tracks, 6 main running tracks and workshops for freight cars and electric locomotives on a length of about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi). With about 200 freight trains a day beginning, ending or passing through the yard, it is a major European marshalling yard and one of the biggest in Germany.

Twin towns – sister cities[edit]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Seelze is twinned with:[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Direktwahlen in Niedersachsen vom 12. September 2021" (PDF). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen. 13 October 2021.
  2. ^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.
  3. ^ Homepage of the museum
  4. ^ "Partnerstädte". seelze.de (in German). Seelze. Retrieved 2021-03-09.

External links[edit]


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seelze