Elze

Elze
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Elze within Hildesheim district
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Coordinates: 52°7′N 09°44′E / 52.117°N 9.733°E / 52.117; 9.733
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Hildesheim
Government
• Mayor (2020–25)	Wolfgang Schurmann[1] (CDU)
Area
• Total	47.71 km2 (18.42 sq mi)
Elevation	79 m (259 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	9,176
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	31008
Dialling codes	05068
Vehicle registration	HI
Website	www.elze.de

Elze (German pronunciation: [ˈɛlt͡sə] ^ⓘ) is a town in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leine, approximately 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Hildesheim. The municipality of Elze also comprises the villages of Esbeck, Mehle, Sehlde, Sorsum, Wittenburg and Wülfingen.

Elze is one of the oldest settlement in the area, as its name stems from

In 1856 the Kingdom of Hanover opened the Hanoverian Southern Railway (Hannöversche Südbahn) from Hanover to Kassel with a station in Elze. After the annexation by Prussia in 1866, the town became an important railway junction with the building of the Elze–Löhne railway (Weserbahn) to Löhne in Westphalia by entrepreneur Bethel Henry Strousberg, finished in 1875. Elze is also the junction of the Bundesstraße 1 and Bundesstraße 3 federal highways.

Notable people

• Justus Gesenius (1601-1673), Lutheran theologian
• Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (1857-1923), mathematician
• Philipp Furtwängler, (1800-1867), organ builder,
• Philipp Furtwängler, (1869-1940), mathematician (number theorist)
• Günter Halm, (born 1922), bearer of the Knight's Cross and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Twin town

• Écouché, France since 1971.^[3]

References

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