Hildesheim

Hildesheim is a huge impartial metropolis in Lower Saxony approximately 30 km southeast of the country capital of Hanover and one among nine nearby facilities of the country. With around 100,000 inhabitants, it stands on the edge between Mittelstadt and large metropolis. In 2015, the town handed the populace of 100,000 and has for the reason that turn out to be a metropolis once more. The seat of the catholic diocese Hildesheim became until 1974 circle free city.

In 1974 Hildesheim became with the territorial reform in Lower Saxony to the massive impartial town and the city and forms considering that then with the vicinity of the former district Hildesheim Marie burg, seeing that 1977 expanded by means of the previous district of Alfeld the district Hildesheim, whose county town she is. From 1885 to 1978 there has been a government district Hildesheim. The Regional Commissioner for the Leine Weser region, which covers the entire 2004 dissolved administrative district of Hanover, has been placed in the metropolis due to the fact that 2014. North of Hildesheim, at the northern fringe of Harsum, one of the oldest rural settlements in northern Germany becomes determined.