Lamspringe is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in

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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. It is situated approximately 20 km south 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 ...

. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Harbarnsen, Neuhof, Sehlem and

Woltershausen Woltershausen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Se ...

are part of the municipality Lamspringe. Lamspringe is known historically as the seat of the former Lamspringe Abbey, of which the church and other buildings remain. Glashütte is a small settlement in the district of the Lamspringe community and located around 4 km east of Lamspringe on the L 466 state road to Rhüden in the Schlörbach valley. In the 18th century, the Lamspringe monastery founded a forest glassworks . It was located in the extensive wooded area of the Westerhof monastery forest, which borders the Heber ridge. In 1792 Johann Friedrich Stender from Ziegenhagen resumed glass production in the monastery forest and founded a glassworks with the Stender glass factory. The settlement was founded as a result of the glassworks. Lamspringe was the seat of the former ''

Samtgemeinde A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Samtgemeinden'' are local government associations of Municipalities of Germany, municipalities, equivalent to the ''Amt (administrative division) ...

'' ("collective municipality") Lamspringe.

Sons and daughters of the place

* Kurt Hotmeyer (1905-1967), SS doctor * Richard Mühe (1929-2009), watchmaker and physicist * Lothar Hampe (born 1946), politician (CDU)

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