Seelze () is a town in the district of Hanover, in

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. It is situated on the river

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, approximately west of

Hanover Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-l ...

. Today Seelze mainly plays the role of a

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for commuters working in Hanover.

Division of the town

* Seelze (city centre) * Letter * Almhorst * Dedensen * Lohnde * Döteberg *

Harenberg Harenberg is a district of the town Seelze, in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography Harenberg is situated approximately 2 km west of the city of Hanover, close to the Bundesstrasse 441. The village lies on a flat lan ...

* Gümmer * Velber * Kirchwehren * Lathwehren

Museum

The local museum and museum of local history () has been situated in Seelze since moving there in 2018 from a timber-framed building dating to 1856 located the incorporated district of . 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 (). About three times a year special exhibitions are shown. The permanent exhibition shows a shoemaker's workshop, 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 The Hanover S-Bahn (in German: ''S-Bahn Hannover'') is an S-Bahn network operated by Transdev Hannover in the area of Hanover in the German state capital of Lower Saxony. It went operational shortly before Expo 2000 and is focused on the Hanover ...

network: Letter, Seelze and Dedensen/Gümmer. All are located on the lines S1 and S2. The is an important

marshalling yard A classification yard (American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, and the former Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway y ...

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 west of Hanover. The following localities belong to the town of Wunstorf: Blumenau (with Liethe), Bokeloh, Großenheidorn, Idensen (with Id ...

Lehrte Lehrte () is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 17 km east of Hanover. In the 19th century Lehrte was the most important railway junction in the former Kingdom of Hanover. As of the 2 ...

) and has 51 classification tracks, 6 main running tracks and workshops for

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and

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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: *

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, Poland *

Schkeuditz Schkeuditz (; ) is a ''Große Kreisstadt'' in the district of Nordsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the White Elster river, 12km northwest of Leipzig. Leipzig/Halle Airport is located in Schkeuditz. The letter processing center for ...

, Germany

References

External links

* Hanover Region {{Hanover-geo-stub