Seelze

Seelze
Seelze
Town
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	Seelze Seelze
	Coordinates: 52°23′46″N 09°35′53″E / 52.39611°N 9.59806°E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Hanover
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Alexander Masthoff (SPD)
Area
• Total	54 km2 (21 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (160 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	34,742
• Density	640/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	30926
Dialling codes	05137, 0511, 05031
Vehicle registration	H
Website	www.seelze.de

Seelze is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leine, approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of Hanover. Today Seelze mainly plays the role of a bedroom town for commuters working in Hanover.

Division of the town

Seelze (city centre)
Letter
Almhorst
Dedensen
Lohnde
Döteberg
Harenberg
Gümmer
Velber
Kirchwehren
Lathwehren

Museum

The local museum and museum of local history (‹See Tfd›German: Heimatmuseum Seelze) is situated in a timber-framed building from 1856 at the incorporated district of Letter. Subjects of the museum include history of Seelze and its incorporated villages, history of the integration of German postwar refugees from former German territories that are now a part of Russia and Poland, and history of the Seelze marshalling yard (‹See Tfd›German: Rangierbahnhof). About tree times a year special exhibitions are shown. The permanent exhibition shows a shoemaker's workshop from about 1930, a hairdresser's shop from about 1920, a schoolroom of a village from about 1900, and a living room of about 1900.^[3]

Transport

Railway

Seelze and its subdivisions have three stations on the Hanover S-Bahn network: Letter, Seelze and Dedensen/Gümmer. All are located on the lines S1 and S2.

The Seelze marshalling yard [de ] is an important marshalling yard in Germany. It is located on the "Freight train bypass Hanover" (Wunstorf – Lehrte) and has 51 classification tracks, 6 main running tracks and workshops for freight cars and electric locomotives on a length of about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi). With about 200 freight trains a day beginning, ending or passing through the yard, it is a major European marshalling yard and one of the biggest in Germany.