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Hildesheim (German: [ˈhɪldəsˌhaɪm] ⓘ; Low German: Hilmessen or Hilmssen; Latin: Hildesia) is a city in Lower Saxony, in north-central Germany with 101,693 inhabitants. It is in the district of Hildesheim , about 30 km (19 mi) southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste River, a small tributary of the Leine River.
- Dhananjay K. 1 contribution. Golden place. It's very good spot to visit I liked that place and environment very much people are enjoying it's old antic style buildings attracts everyone.
- dgjohansson. Ronneby, Sweden 1,600 contributions. The better church if you need to pick only one. This is the more inteesting church compared to the Saint Mary Cathedral.
- Anny454. Chipping Norton, UK97 contributions. World Class Treasures in a Great New Home. I visited Hildesheim particularly to see the Bernward treasures in their new setting of the museum.
- dgjohansson. Ronneby, Sweden 1,600 contributions. The second best church in town. This cathedral has a few intersting spots which motivates a visit. The small chapel inside the cloister is a nice spot which also containes the 1000 years old rose plant, which inspire a lot of naming of things in town.
- St Michael’s Church. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, this church was completed in the early 11th century in the Ottonian style, which came before the Romanesque in Germany.
- St Mary’s Cathedral. Hildesheim’s Romanesque cathedral was razed during the Second World War, but was quickly restored in the 1950s and then again over the last few years.
- Knochenhaueramtshaus. The most photographed half-timbered house in Hildesheim was first built on the Historic Market Place in 1529. This multi-storey edifice with a big slate-clad gable was the old city’s butchers’ guildhall, and is replete with decoration, on its carved corbels and in the panels above the windows.
- Historic Market Place. You wouldn’t believe it now, but in the decades after the Second World War the Historic Market Place was surrounded by modern concrete buildings.
World Heritage Site with churches and cultural monuments - just 30 km from Hannover. Unique UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hildesheim is especially well known for its unique churches and cultural monuments. Hildesheim Cathedral and St. Michael's Church are masterpieces of ecclesiastical architecture.
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Religious Sites, Historic Sites. Hildesheim Tourism: Tripadvisor has 7,334 reviews of Hildesheim Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Hildesheim resource.
Two Hildesheim churches and their works of art were included on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites of Mankind as far back as 1985: Hildesheim Cathedral with its impressive bronze castings and St. Michael’s Church, one of the most beautiful early-Romanesque churches in Germany.
