Northeim

Northeim is a metropolis in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies at the German Half-Timbered House Road. Northeim is first noted in 800 in a report recording a belongings transfer by a Frankish nobleman to the Abbey of Fulda. In the 10th century the surrounding vicinity became a county, administered through the Counts of Northeim. The first of them, Siegfried is cited in 982.

From 1061 to 1070 Count Otto II held the stem duchy of Bavaria as an Imperial fief, however misplaced it once more because of his involvement within the Saxon plot in opposition to King Henry IV. The monastery of St. Blasius was founded around 1100. In 1252 Northeim acquired town rights, and from 1384 to 1554 it became a member of the Hanseatic League. When protestantism changed into brought in 1532 all of the church buildings were allocated to the protestants. The city have become a part of the Kingdom of Hanover.