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            Culture - many ways to approach.

Bad Gandersheim and its surroundings area is a stronghold of history. A history - today represented by a lot of  relicts and by the men, which used to live and which live here today. The  following table with a lot of links is able to show you some examples (Most links are in German!). Go to these sites and have a first impression where you could stop during your trip to the history (Actualisation date of table: 11/2002):

Field

Detail

You will find in..

km   from

Car-min
from

Keywords (only examples!)

 

 

 

   Dannhausen

 

Churches/
Architectural styles

Romanesque period

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Stiftskirche (since 856)

 

 

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

St. Georgskirche (12. century)

 

 

Hildesheim

40

30

Cathedral (1007) and Michaeliskirche

 

 

Goslar

35

30

Kaiserpfalz,

 

 

Quedlinburg

60

60

Stiftskirche and other (World heritage)

 

Gothic period

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Annexes (14.+15.cent.)of cathedral

 

 

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Abbey church Clus (carved altar)

 

Renaissance of Weser river

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Abbey

 

 

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Bracken, half timbered house from 1473

 

 

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Town Hall, new build after fire in 1597

 

 

Emmerthal

60

55

Castle Hämelschenburg

 

 

Fürstenberg

45

55

Castle and handcrafted porzelain

 

 

Bevern

40

55

Castle Bevern

 

Baroque period

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Abbbey, wings. (1st half 18. cent..)

 

 

near Höxter

45

45

Corvey castle, (carolingian, roman foundation)

 

Modern age

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Sculpture track, contemporary sculptures on a cycle path

 

Churches in general

Hilly country of Leine river

10-30

10-30

17 villages with interesting churches

Geschichte

In the beginning

Herzberg

25

20

Steinkirche (Old stone age)

 

 

Osterode

20

15

Cave of Lichtenstein (900-700 b.C.)

 

 

Southern Lower Saxony.

 

 

Germans and Celts

 

Middle age

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

historic time table

 

Renaissance/
Baroque period

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

historic time table

 

Enlightenment/
Romantic period

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

historic time table

Craftwork

Pottery

Fredelsloh

35

35

Pottery village Fredelsloh

 

Porcelain/
Fürstenberg

Fürstenberg/
Weser

45

55

Handcrafted porcelain made by Fürstenberg

Events

Cathedral festival

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Current program, summer festival and winter festival

 

Lokhalle

Göttingen

45

35

Program, Rock-concerts, Conferences

 

Arts centre Brunshausen

Bad Gandersheim

6

6

Program, Exhibitions, Music events, winter festival

 

Old town hall

Göttingen

45

35

Program, Cabaret, Jazz

 

Overview

Hildesheim

40

30

Program all events

 

Municipal museum

Göttingen

45

35

Exhibition program

 

Overview

Braunschweig

50

40

Program

 

Zehntscheune

Freden

20

20

International Days of Music, Classic, Jazz

 

Overview

Goslar

35

35

Program of events

 

St. Andreaskirche

Seesen

7

10

Program, Classic music

 

Sehusa-Festival

Seesen

7

10

Program, historic costumes

 

Theatre Clausthal

Clausthal-
Zellerfeld

25

30

Program, classic and critical pieces

 

Händel-Festival

Göttingen

45

35

Program, (May-June)

 

Overview Southern Lower Saxony

 

 

 

 current data bank

Writers
and philosophs

Roswitha

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Legends, drama, historical epic

 

Roswitha award to:

 

 

1973

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

 

 

 

 

1974

Hilde Domin

 

 

 

 

1975

Ilse Aichinger

 

 

 

 

1976

Elisabeth Borchers

 

 

 

 

1977

Dagmar Nick

 

 

 

 

1978

Elfriede Jelinek

 

 

 

 

1979

Luise Rinser

 

 

 

 

1980

Rose Auslaender

 

 

 

 

1981

Hilde Spiel

 

 

 

 

1982

Frederike Mayröcker

 

 

 

 

1983

Sarah Kirsch

 

 

 

 

1984

Greta Schoon

 

 

 

 

1985

Irmtraud Morgner

 

 

 

 

1986

Ulla Hahn

 

 

 

 

1987

Irina Korschunow

 

 

 

 

1988

Gerlind Reinshagen

 

 

 

 

1989

Helga M. Novak

 

 

 

 

1990

Hertha Müller

 

 

 

 

1992

Helga Königsdorf

 

 

 

 

1993

Christa Reinig

 

 

 

 

1994

Monika Maron

 

 

 

 

1995

Libuse Monikova

 

 

 

 

1996

Gisela von Wysocki

 

 

 

 

1998

Carola Stern

 

 

 

 

1999

Birgit Vanderbeke

 

 

 

 

2000

Silvia Bovenschen

 

 

 

 

2001

Erika Fuchs

 

 

 

 

2002

Katja Lange-Müller

Other

Museum

Bad Gandersheim

5

5

Museum about town’s history, e.g. Roswitha

 

Museum

Alfeld

25

25

Museum ( History region of Alfeld)

 

Museum

Einbeck

20

20

Museum, (particularely: coins, brewery, bikes

 

Museum

Göttingen

35

45

Museum, cultural history, especially: ecclesiastical art, porcelain, faiences

 

Museum

Seesen

10

8

Museum, minerals, Steinway-pianos

 

Museum

Teistungen

40

40

Grenzlandmuseum: Exhibition concerning the former german-german border

Culture for kids

Fairy-tale road

Hameln

45

45

Pied Piper of Hamelin

 

 

Mechtshausen

10

10

Museum of Wilhelm Busch

 

 

Gieselwerder

45

50

Fairy tale castle : Sababurg

 

 

Einbeck

25

25

Till Eulenspiegel

 

 

Bodenwerder

40

40

Town of Baron Münchhausen

 

 

Trendelburg

40

40

Castle of Rapunzel (fairy tale)

 

Other castles

Harz mountains

ab 10

ab 15

about 30 different castles

 

 

Pattensen

35

35

Marienburg Castle

 

 

Bovenden

30

35

Plesse castle

 

Rastiland

Osterwald

45

45

Experience park Rastiland

 

Model railway show

Langelsheim
Harz mountains

17

20

Model railways
Schedules for narrow gauge railway
of the Harz mountains