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Hildesheim

district in Lower Saxony, Germany
AdministrativeArea district_of_lower_saxony Q5978

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of Lower Saxony
Inception
1885
Official website
www.landkreishildesheim.de

Location

Country
Germany[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.080°, 9.920°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Lower Saxony, Province of Hanover[4][5]
Shares border with
Hamelin-Pyrmont District, Holzminden, Northeim, Goslar district, Wolfenbüttel district, Salzgitter, Peine, Hannover Region[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]

Population and size

Area
+1206.00
Elevation above sea level
+80
Female population
+141682
Male population
+134912
Population
277k (275k–277k, n=3)
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 275,330 · 277,300 · 276,594 GeoNames 267,506 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +12
Headquarters location
Kreisverwaltung Landkreis Hildesheim
Capital
Hildesheim[8]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Algermissen, Sarstedt, Lamspringe, Freden, Sibbesse, Duingen, Gronau, Alfeld (Leine), Bockenem, Diekholzen, Giesen, Elze, Bad Salzdetfurth, Harsum, Hildesheim, Holle, Nordstemmen, Schellerten, Söhlde, Leinebergland[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Deutschland/Niedersachsen/Hildesheim
Head of government
Olaf Levonen, Reiner Wegner[7]
Legislative body
Wikidata item
Licence plate code
ALF, HI
Member of
Mayors for Peace, Niedersächsischer Landkreistag[2][3]
Named after
Hildesheim[17]
Owner of
Regionalverkehr Hildesheim
Position held by head of the organization
Wikidata item
Twinned administrative body
Padang
🏷️ Also known as
en Landkreis Hildesheim en Hildesheim en Hildesheim (district) ar هيلدسهايم cs Zemský okres Hildesheim es Distrito de Hildesheim es Landkreis Hildesheim fa هیلدسهایم (ناحیه) fr Landkreis Hildesheim fr arrondissement de Hildesheim he מחוז הילדסהיים hu Hildesheim járás it circondario di Hildesheim ja ヒルデスハイム郡 pl Powiat Hildesheim ro Districtul Hildesheim ru Хильдесхайм uk Гільдесгайм zh 希尔德斯海姆县
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
312795130
Library of Congress authority ID
n79098646
GND ID
4024885-9
ArchINFORM location ID
2458
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--435958
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/013_dx
GADM ID
DEU.9.20_1
GeoNames ID
2803461
German district key
03254
German regional key
032540000000
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7077537
Show all 27 identifiers +15
HASC
DE.NI.HH
INaturalist place ID
98502
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
7859
Museum-digital place ID
6366
NUTS code
DE925
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000976602
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007550334105171
National Library of Wales Authority ID
hildesheim-germany
OpenStreetMap relation ID
62742
RKD thesaurus ID
55531
SNARC ID
Oryctes nevadensis
Stage username
landkreis-hildesheim
Topic's main category
Category:Hildesheim (district)
Who's on First ID
1125361857
Yale LUX ID
place/a1c5adb8-1506-49e9-943a-0340566e0317
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 38
Hildesheim, Alfeld (Leine), Bad Salzdetfurth, Gronau (Leine), Bockenem, Elze, Nordstemmen, Algermissen +30 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 20
Hildesheim, Alfeld (Leine), Bad Salzdetfurth, Bockenem, Elze, Nordstemmen, Algermissen, Harsum +12 more
Shares border with 8
Salzgitter, Hamelin-Pyrmont District, Northeim, Hannover Region, Holzminden, Goslar district, Peine, Wolfenbüttel district
← Shares border with 8
Salzgitter, Hamelin-Pyrmont District, Northeim, Hannover Region, Holzminden, Goslar district, Peine, Wolfenbüttel district
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Lower Saxony, Province of Hanover
Located in time zone 2
UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00
← Category combines topics 2
Category:Municipalities in Landkreis Hildesheim, Category:People from Hildesheim (district)
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 2
Lower Saxony, Hildesheim Government Region
Capital 1
Hildesheim
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Hildesheim (district)
Country 1
Germany
Located in this place 1
Steinberg
Member of 1
Mayors for Peace
Named after 1
Hildesheim
SNARC ID 1
Oryctes nevadensis
Topic's main category 1
Category:Hildesheim (district)
Twinned administrative body 1
Padang
← Capital of 1
Hildesheim
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Hildesheim (district)
← SNARC ID 1
Kolbuszowa
← Twinned administrative body 1
Padang
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Summary

Hildesheim is a district of Lower Saxony[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Lower Saxony[4], a federated state of Germany[26], in Germany[27], founded in 1946[28] and Province of Hanover[5], a provinces of Prussia[29], in Kingdom of Prussia[30], founded in 1866[31].

Physical Characteristics

Hildesheim covers an area of {'amount': '+1206.00'}[32]. Hildesheim sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+80'}[33]. Population counts include {'amount': '+275330'}[34], {'amount': '+277300'}[35], and {'amount': '+276594'}[36].

History and Context

1885 marks the founding of Hildesheim[37].

Related Entities

Germany Kolbuszowa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Algermissen, Sarstedt, Lamspringe +17
    Instance of → district of Lower Saxony
    Member of → —
    Area → {'amount': '+1206.00'}
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53411|batch #53411]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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