Giesen is a
village
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and a municipality in the
district of Hildesheim, in
Lower Saxony
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,
Germany
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. It is situated approximately 6 km northwest 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 L ...
, and 22 km southeast 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 ...
.
The municipality includes five villages:
*
Ahrbergen (pop. 2,219)
*
Emmerke Emmerke is a part of the municipality of Giesen in the district of Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, in north-western Germany.
Geography
Emmerke is approx.6 km of the district town Hildesheim and 25 km from the state capital Hanover
Descript ...
(pop. 1,684)
* Giesen (pop. 3,401)
*
Groß Förste
Gross or Groß in German is the correct spelling of the surname under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland, the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß".
It is a surname of German, Pru ...
(pop. 795)
*
Hasede (pop. 1,606)
Gallery
File:Gross Giesen Kirche.JPG, Gross Giesen, Sankt-Vitus-Kirche
File:Ahrbergen, dorpszicht IMG 4613 2018-07-02 11.38.jpg, Ahrbergen, view to the village
File:Gross Förste, die katholische Kirche Sankt Pankratius IMG 4626 2018-07-02 11.52.jpg, Gross Förste, catholic church: Kirche Sankt Pankratius
File:Hasede, die Sankt Paulus Kirche IMG 4635 2018-07-02 12.02.jpg, Hasede, church: die Sankt Paulus Kirche
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the community:
* Hermann Schnipkoweit (born 1928), politician (CDU)
Personalities associated with this community:
*
Michael Weiner (born 1969), football referee, lives in the district of Hasede
References
External links
Hildesheim (district)
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