Hamelin Travel Guide
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Hamelin Overview
Hamelin (German: Hameln) is a town on the river Weser in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Hamelin-Pyrmont and has a population of 58,872 (as at 2005). Hamelin is also the gateway to the surrounding Weserbergland mountains, which can be visited by hikers and bikers.
Hamelin is a great independent city in Lower Saxony. The district town of the district Hameln-Pyrmont is located on the Weser and is especially famous for the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the traditiondating back to 1284. Hameln is located southwest of Hanover about halfway flies between Herford (Herford vacation rentals | Herford travel guide) in West and Hildesheim (Hildesheim vacation rentals | Hildesheim travel guide) in the east. The city is located in the center of the Natural Park Weserbergland Schaumburg-Hameln and each of parts of the Weserbergland in the west or leash mountain surrounded in the east. Hamelin is a section of the upper Weser flows into the urban area in the Hamel (from East) and the Humme (west) entrance.
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Things to See in Hamelin
Hameln gained worldwide recognition through the soon to be in 1284 made the statement "Chen Hämel children" from which later the Rattenfängersage developed. The dating of this year goes back to the late Middle Ages, the oldest report thereon dated from the period between 1430 and 1450. Even today, describes itself as the city officially Pied Piper of Hameln town.
Theater Hameln (formerly Weserbergland-Festhalle) offers about 700 visitors a wide range of repertoire. Over 150 concerts, musicals, operas, comedies, to the cabaret and the Children and Young People.
Hamelin is on the main roads into an almost closed historic city with a large number of splendid half-timbered - and stone houses, many of them from the Renaissance. Representative heart of Old Town, the Easter Road and the horse market.
Pin Mansion from 1558, to the truss of figure consoles jewelry. One of the few buildings not complying with the gable to the road show, but traufseitig stand.
Pied Piper house with richly decorated Renaissance gables of 1603, well organized facade with bay
Wedding House, monumental feast and celebration of the town house, in the style of the Weser Renaissance built 1610-17; Rattenfänger art and chimes with a circulation figure around 13:00 to 17:30 on the clock Rattenfänger-Weser and song
Cathedral Church of St. Boniface (Protestant), gothic church with octagonal Vierungsturm and Romanesque crypt, 1870-75 after appropriate use of foreign restored
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Maps and Driving Directions to Hamelin
In the center ring of Hameln running the federal highways B 1, B 83 and 217 star-together. It crosses the Hamelin B 1 in the east-west direction from Berlin to the Ruhr area and the B 83 in the north-south direction of Bückeburg direction Kassel. The B 217 starts in Hameln and leads north-east to Hanover.
Travel Insider Tips for Hamelin
I love this town! Talk about beautiful. A must see for any tourist. Hameln ist wunderschön!! I found the rat trail embedded in the sidewalks showing the way to the museum especially unique.
Shared by Wayne Smith, Oct 2009
I was in Hamelin today, there is a tattoo convention in the Rattenfängerhalle today and tomorrow. I too was stationed at Hess-Oldendorf in the 80's, was up on the hill at Schwelentrup, stayed over here and live in Linderhof. It is a nice area and Hameln is a beautiful town.
Shared by James Voldness, Jan 1970
I was stationed in Hessisch-Oldendorf about 20 minutes away and got married in Hamelin. Love that town would go see the Pied Piper play in the summer.
Shared by Joe Vaughn, Oct 2009
Oh das Weserbergland, ich wohnte in Hessisch Oldendorf ca. 25 minuten von Hameln, eine wunderschoene Gegend.
Shared by Silke Pierce, Jan 1970
What a quaint, beautiful town that holds many great memories for me as a Kunsthandwerker
. There may be a few glass Rattenfängern
made by me floating around still....
Shared by Wayne Smith, Sep 2009
Hamelin
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Hamelin: Hamelin (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Hamelin
More about the History of Hamelin
Hamelin started with a monastery, which was founded as early as 851 AD. A village grew in the neighbourhood and had become a town by the 12th century. The incident with the Pied Piper is said to have happened in 1284 and may be based on a true event, although somewhat different from the tale. In the 15th and 16th centuries Hamelin was a minor member of the Hanseatic League. During the Second World War, Hamelin prison was used for detention of political prisoners, Social Democrats, Communists and political prisoners. Around 200 died here; more died afterwards, when the Nazis sent the prisoners for death walks in April 1945 fearing the Allied advance. Just after the War, Hamelin prison was used by the British Occupation Forces for the detention of German war criminals. More than 200 of them were hanged there including Irma Grese and Josef Kramer. It has since been turned into a hotel).
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