Seelze is a town in the
district of Hanover, in
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 ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated on the river
Leine
The Leine (; Old Saxon ''Lagina'') is a river in Thuringia and Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Aller and the Weser and is long.
The river's source is located close to the town of Leinefelde in Thuringia. About downriver, ...
, approximately west of
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
. Today Seelze mainly plays the role of a
bedroom town for commuters working in Hanover.
Division of the town
* Seelze (city centre)
* Letter
* Almhorst
* Dedensen
* Lohnde
* Döteberg
*
Harenberg
* Gümmer
* Velber
* Kirchwehren
* Lathwehren
Museum
The local museum and museum of local history (german: Heimatmuseum Seelze) is situated in a timber-framed building from 1856 at the incorporated district of Letter. Subjects of the museum include history of Seelze and its incorporated villages, history of the integration of German postwar refugees from former German territories that are now a part of Russia and Poland, and history of the Seelze marshalling yard (german: Rangierbahnhof). About tree times a year special exhibitions are shown. The permanent exhibition shows a shoemaker's workshop from about 1930, a hairdresser's shop from about 1920, a schoolroom of a village from about 1900, and a living room of about 1900.
Transport
Railway
Seelze and its subdivisions have three stations on the
Hanover S-Bahn network: Letter, Seelze and Dedensen/Gümmer. All are located on the lines S1 and S2.
The is an important
marshalling yard in Germany. It is located on the "Freight train bypass Hanover" (
Wunstorf
Wunstorf () is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 22 km west of Hanover. The following localities belong to the town of Wunstorf: Blumenau (with Liethe), Bokeloh, Großenheidorn, Idensen ...
Lehrte) and has 51 classification tracks, 6 main running tracks and workshops for
freight cars
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and
electric locomotives on a length of about . With about 200 freight trains a day beginning, ending or passing through the yard, it is a major European marshalling yard and one of the biggest in Germany.
Twin towns – sister cities
Seelze is
twinned with:
*
Grand-Couronne, France
*
Mosina
Mosina (german: Moschin) is a town in Poznań County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, about 20 km south of Poznań, with 12,107 inhabitants (2004). The Mosiński Canal runs east and west through the town, and joins the Warta River jus ...
, Poland
*
Schkeuditz, Germany
References
External links
Official website
Hanover Region
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