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HOLIDAY MAGAZINE HILDESHEIM 2014 | Exploring towns
HISTORY AND MUCH MORE
With a knowledgeable guide through towns in the region
Accompanied by tour guides, visitors learn more about the history, sights to see, as well as the legends and myths of the towns in
the region. Not only in Hildesheim, but also the small half-timber towns of Alfeld, Bockenem, Bad Salzdetfurth and Elze have offers
for exploring the town – be it in the course of a traditional city tour, a historical tour in costumes or a Segway tour.
BOCKENEM: SMALL HALF-TIMBER TOWN IN AMBERGAU
Bockenem, the half-timber town, in the middle of the historic Ambergau
region, looks back on a long history. When it was granted
town rights in the year 1300, it was a member in the „Hanse“ (Hanseatic
towns association), in the Saxon Hanseatic Association and
the working group of the German Half-Timber Road. Worth seeing is
the semi-timber collection of the old part of town and the dominant
Gothic St. Pankratius Church directly at the market square. The Tilly
House located behind it, which is the prettiest half-timber house in
town, was once the residence of Luther‘s companion, Bugenhagen,
who initiated reformation in this region in 1542. Also popular parts
of the historic city tours are: Which was the first building of Bockenem,
and who built it? How did the Tilly House and the Kanonenberg
(Canon Mountain) get their names? This and much more can
be found out by guests from the herald or herbalist about the picturesque
half-timber town in the southern district of Hildesheim.
Guided tours are also offered at the Town Museum, which is located
in the building of the former town school at the Burchholz market
square and presents a large turret clock exhibition. The Museum is
known among experts across Germany (see page 15).
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Groups of 15 or larger can book half-day trips to Bockenem.
After a visit at the Museum of Time, tea time together
is offered in cooperation with the Town of Bockenem
and various cafés, and a tour through the old part
of Bockenem as well as St. Pankratius Church accompanied
by the herald and the herbalist is offered. Museum
of Time, phone +49 (0)5067 249240, info@e-besch.de
COSTUME TOURS
Not just in Bockenem can visitors delve into history on costume
tours. In Hildesheim and Elze too, „witnesses of time“ can take you
on a journey into the past. The stories of Hildesheim come to live
when the tour guides in historical costumes tell of the urban life,
customs and rites of their time. At the side of the night watchman,
you can for example, after nightfall find shady figures and other riffraff.
The tell tales of their times full of superstition and disappear
again in the darkness of the alleys in the half-timber quarter. The
town of Elze also boasts costume tours. Under the title „Two contradictory
women – travel through time into the 19th century“ the
visitors on the side of the postal officer‘s widow, Henriette Sander,
come across the arsonist Sophie Catharina Büscher – the special
costume tours take the visitors along on a lively two-hour journey
through Elze of past times.
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Hildesheim: www.hildesheim.de/stadtführungen,
Phone: +49 (0)5129 96123, dates available
at the tourist-information
Elze: www.elze.de, phone: +49 (0)5068 8191
Bockenem: www.bockenem.de, phone: +49 (0)5067 242-0
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