Gelliehausen is a

nucleated village A nucleated village, or clustered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement pattern. It is one of the terms used by geographers and landscape historians to classify settlements. It is most accurate with regard to planned settlements: its c ...

just south of

Benniehausen Benniehausen is a village in the Gemeinde Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony. The village of 349 residents (in 2010) is located in the Gartetal on the old trade route between Göttingen and Duderstadt Duderstadt () is a city in southern Lower Sa ...

in the Gemeinde

Gleichen Gleichen is the name of two groups of castles in Germany, thus named from their resemblance to each other (german: gleich like, or resembling). Castles in Thuringia between Gotha and Erfurt The first is a group of three (hence called “die dre ...

in southern

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

with a population of 452 (as of 12 December 2005). The village is located at the foot of the twin hills called the Gleichen. The small community has a pond next to its "''Bürgerhaus''." The mayor is Gerhard Nolte. The most famous person associated with Gelliehausen is

Gottfried August Bürger Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, '' Lenore'', found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian ada ...

, an eighteenth-century poet who lived there for a while.

External links

*http://www.gleichen.de/gelliehausen/home.htm (in German) Villages in Lower Saxony {{LowerSaxony-geo-stub