Online-Card - Hildesheim

Experience the unique UNESCO world heritage site, the treasuries of international museums, the legendary 1000-year-old rose bush, the „most beautiful market place of the world„ and the highest church steeple of Lower Saxony! The city is especially known for its churches and cultural monuments. The Cathedral and the St. Michael‘s Church, belonging to the UNESCO world heritage since 1985, are masterpieces of church architecture and their treasuries are well-known in the whole world. For example in the Cathedral the Bernward‘s door and the Christ‘s Pillar, both founded in bronze, and other treasuries show us the magnificent creative power of Bishop Bernward. The St. Michael‘s Church is one of the most beautiful early Romanesque churches in Germany and a unique example of Ottonic architecture. The coloured wooden ceiling shows the genealogical tree of Christ in splendid colours. With its height of 114,35 metres the steeple of the Gothic St. Andrew‘s church is the highest church steeple in Lower Saxony. Wilhelm von Humboldt once called Hildesheim‘s historical market place with its famous „Knochenhauer-Amtshaus„ (Butchers‘ Guild Hall) „the most beautiful market place in the world„. And even today, the visitors of the town, at the sight of the originally reconstructed market place feel the same as the famous scholar did - as if they had been taken back to another world - from the vivid reality into past centuries, surrounded by legends and history.

Hildesheim‘s museums store art history treasuries of highest quality. The internationally renowned Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum is home to one of the most outstanding collections of Ancient Egyptian and Peruvian art in Europe. Spectacular special exhibitions taking place almost every year. In the Knochenhauer-Amtshaus (Butchers` Guild Hall) you can visit the Town Museum with a presentation of the history of Hildesheim and its region. The Cathedral Museum is home to precious objects that document the history of the church and also to the Cathedral Treasure with valuable art treasures dating from the Middle Ages. There is a large number of various guided city tours, for example „Romanesque Sights„, „Traces of Bishop Bernward„, „ Modern Hildesheim„, different ralleys for children, guided city tours in historical costumes, special guided city tours for blind and deaf persons. The open guided city tours taking place daily at 2 p.m. from the 1st of April to the 31st of October. The repertory of the City theatre is versatile and offers opera, operetta and musicals, drama, ballet and concerts. This offer is broadened by a vivid free cultural scene and by a large variety of events.

With its shopping facilities and many parking lots Hildesheim is attracting visitors from a wide region. Attractive pedestrian areas and business streets with small shops and large department stores invite to a long shopping tour while friendly street cafés and restaurants offer the possibility to take a rest. Numerous woods, green spaces, sport facilities and lakes in Hildesheim and in its surroundings are a paradise for walker, jogger and cyclists. The possibilities for different sport activities like tennis, horse-riding or golf, are almost infinite. Hildesheim visitors find hotels and inns of all categories offering individual accommodation, high-tech congress facilities and seasonal culinary specialties and delicacies.

Due to excellent traffic connections Hildesheim can be reached very easily as it is situated directly on the North-South-axis of the motorway BAB 7 from Hamburg to Würzburg. The connection to the West-East-axis, i.e. to the motorway BAB 2 from Dortmund to Berlin, is the motorway intersection Hannover-Ost, situated 30 km north of Hildesheim. Besides, Hildesheim is connected to the rapid train net ICE, has an airport for planes of up to 5,7 t and a river port. The international airport Hannover-Langenhagen is only 50 km away and the exhibition site of Hannover only 20 km.