Elze

Elze is a town in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is arranged on the waterway Leine, roughly 15 km west of Hildesheim. Elze is one of the most seasoned settlement in the region, as its name originates from Latin: aula caesaris, a chateau of Charlemagne which he had built up around 800 in the Saxon bequests after his triumph over duke Widukind in the Saxon Wars. The head likewise established a teacher ward here, committed to Saints Peter and Paul which turned into the source of the Bishopric of Hildesheim.

Lord Louis the Pious migrated the episcopal see to Hildesheim in 815, anyway the Lutheran area church is as yet committed to Peter and Paul and the holy people are likewise delineated in the town's crest. The town of Wittenburg is the site of a previous Augustininan groups normal religious community, set up in the 14th century in the spot of a previous manor, possibly raised by individuals from the Billung line as ahead of schedule as 805.

The nunnery rotted over the span of the Protestant Reformation, while the Gothic religious community church is protected. In 1856 the Kingdom of Hanover opened the Hanoverian Southern Railway from Hanover to Kassel with a station in Elze. After the extension by Prussia in 1866, the town turned into a significant railroad intersection with the structure of the Elze– Lohne railroad to Lohne in Westphalia by business visionary Bethel Henry Strousberg, completed in 1875. Elze is likewise the intersection of the Bundesstrae and Bundesstrabme government parkways.