Holle

For other uses, see Holle (disambiguation).

Holle
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Holle within Hildesheim district
Location of Holle
Holle Holle
Coordinates: 52°05′30″N 10°09′30″E
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Hildesheim
Government
• Mayor (2021–26)	Falk-Olaf Hoppe (CDU)
Area
• Total	61.25 km2 (23.65 sq mi)
Elevation	116 m (381 ft)
Population  (2024-12-31)
• Total	6,561
• Density	107.1/km2 (277.4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	31188
Dialling codes	05062
Vehicle registration	HI
Website	www.holle.de

Holle (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔlə]) is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 15 km southeast of Hildesheim, and 15 km west of Salzgitter. It was mentioned in Tom Clancy's bestseller Red Storm Rising.

One of the villages in this municipality is Derneburg . The castle there, Schloss Derneburg , is since 2007 the site of one out of two modern art museums of the Hall Art Foundation. A famous German artist, Georg Baselitz, had lived and worked in this castle from 1975 until 2006.

In the tiny village of Söder, 7 km south of Holle, a baroque castle housed a famous art collection, owned by the Von Brabeck family, until is was sold at a remarkable auction in 1859.

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  Interior of Saint Martin's Church, Holle
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  Castle of Derneburg; in the foreground museum and café Glass House
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  West wing of Derneburg Castle
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  The Mariensee, one of the Derneburg Fishing Ponds
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  Wohldenberg Castle near Sillium, south of Holle (1)
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  Wohldenberg Castle (2)
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  Bergfried Oberburg, a tower near this castle
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  Baroque St.-Hubert' s Church near Wohldenberg Castle
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  Lutheran St. Matthew's Church, Sillium
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  Henneckenrode Castle
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  Roman Catholic St. Joseph' s Church near this castle (built in 1597)
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  Baroque Söder Castle
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  Aerial image of Schloss Söder (view from the south)

External links

Media related to Holle at Wikimedia Commons