Hillerse is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in

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. It is a member municipality of the

Samtgemeinde Meinersen Samtgemeinde Meinersen is a Samtgemeinde in the Gifhorn (district), district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately southwest of Gifhorn. 20,311 citizens are living in the Samtgemeinde Meinersen (2020). Structure of t ...

. The Municipality Hillerse includes the villages of Hillerse and Volkse. Rathaus Hillerse

Twin towns

Hillerse is twinned with Bréville-les-Monts and Amfreville both in

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in France, and with Dolton in

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in the UK.

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