Laatzen is a town in the
district of Hanover, in
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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. It is situated directly south of
Hanover.
Division of the town
In 1964, the municipalities of Laatzen (nowadays about 22,000 inhabitants) and Grasdorf (3,500 inh.) were merged into the town of Laatzen. In 1974 the towns of
Rethen The formally independent municipality Rethen is part of the municipality Vordorf in Northern Germany. First documented in 1301, it now has a population of about 1,200. Rethen is part of the Samtgemeinde Papenteich at the administrative district of ...
(8,100 inh.),
Gleidingen (4,300 inh.) and Ingeln-Oesselse (3,700 inh.) were joined to the town.
Twin towns – sister cities
Laatzen is
twinned
Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to:
* In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so;
* Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning
* Twinning inst ...
with:
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Le Grand-Quevilly, France
*
Gubin, Poland
*
Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria
See also
*
Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg
References
External links
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Official site of Gleidingen
Hanover Region
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