Harbarnsen is a village and a former municipality in the district of

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; nds, Hilmessen, Hilmssen; la, Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Lei ...

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 ...

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. Since 1 November 2016, it is part of the municipality

Lamspringe Lamspringe is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Hildesheim. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Harbarnsen, Neuhof, Sehlem and W ...

Geography

Harbarnsen is situated in an agricultural region between the Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln Nature Park and the

Harz The Harz () is a highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The name ''Harz'' derives from the Middle High German ...

, roughly 9 km southwest of

Bad Salzdetfurth is a town on the banks of the River Lamme in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The municipality includes the town itself, and 12 civil parishes (''Ortsteile'') which were incorporated in 1974: * Bodenburg * Brein ...

. Surrounding hill ranges, namely

Sackwald The Sackwald is a ridge, up to high, in the Lower Saxon Hills in the district of Hildesheim in the North German state of Lower Saxony. It is named after the village of Sack in the borough of Alfeld, the name meaning "Sack Forest". The Sackwald ...

Harplage The Harplage is a hill range, up to 290 metres high, located west-northwest of the Harz in the southeast of the German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The forested Harplage is located in the district of Hildesheim in the southwestern part ...

and Heber, are parts of the

Lower Saxon Hills The Lower Saxon Hills (german: Niedersächsisches Bergland) are one of the 73 natural regions in Germany defined by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). Geographically it covers roughly the same area as the Weser Uplands (german: Weserb ...

Division of the municipality

The municipality of Harbarnsen consisted of two districts, Harbarnsen and Irmenseul. File:Harbarnsen 1991 retouched.jpg, Old distillery in Harbarnsen, 1991 File:Irminsul in Harbarnsen-Irmenseul 2009.jpg, Irminsul reproduction in Irmenseul

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External links

Hildesheim (district) Former municipalities in Lower Saxony {{Hildesheim-geo-stub