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

Hildesheim Hildesheim (; or ; ) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim (district), Hildesheim, about southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of t ...

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

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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 Wo ...

Geography

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

Harz The Harz (), also called the Harz Mountains, 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'' der ...

, roughly 9 km southwest of

Bad Salzdetfurth 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: * ...

. Surrounding hill ranges, namely Sackwald, Harplage and Heber, are parts of the

Lower Saxon Hills The Lower Saxon Hills () 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 () in its wider sense.However at least one sour ...

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 An Irminsul (Old Saxon 'great pillar') was a sacred, Column, pillar-like object attested as playing an important role in the Germanic paganism of the Saxons. Medieval sources describe how an Irminsul was destroyed by Charlemagne during the Saxon ...

reproduction in Irmenseul

References

External links

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