HILDESHEIM, GERMANY | A Surprising Day Trip in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪 

Actually, the rose bush burned down during the R(C)AF attacks on Hildesheim. However, after some weeks, new branches appeared on the stump and it was able to recover since then.

iI like your eye for the little things just around the corner, it doesn't always have to be Neuschwanstein! I hope your baby is doing well (APPRISINGLY YES, as fit as mom walks around) AND I WISH you the best imaginable! Michael/Hanover

My favourite church is St. Michaelis. It’s a rare case of an (almost) completely romanesque style church that wasn’t „modernised“ to gothic style and still has its original flat wooden ceiling with early medieval paintings. The ceiling panels were stored away during the war, the coloured windows were not. The sequence of columns and pillars with the striped arches is typical for romanesque basilicas in the Early Middle Ages. It may not look like much, but it’s not a common sight. The Bishop of Hildesheim had St. Michaelis built to prevent the apocalypse that was supposed to happen at 1000 AD. Apparently it worked.

Just visited yesterday and love seeing your take on it!

Visit Wolfenbüttel! There you will find everything you like: an old town full of half-timbered houses, magnificent churches, an old castle worth seeing and the famous old library where Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm) worked. It's also easy to reach from Hanover, with just one change in Braunschweig.

The tragic thing about Hildesheim is that it almost survived the war. All of Hildesheim used to look like Keßlerstraße. A single RAF raid with phosphorus bombs put an end to that. Like Dresden Hildesheim was built out of wood and was engulfed in a fire storm. Some say the bombers missed Hannover (the strategic target) in the dark of night. On the other hand, the RAF strategy included a punishment element. So, a deliberate strike for destruction sake can’t be dismissed, since it was a relatively risk free operation. Only Keßlerstraße and the stone buildings survived. The wooden houses around the Marktplatz are faithful reconstructions built in the late 80s. I still remember the ugly high-rise hotel that was there before.

I can see my old school from the Andreas tower on your clip :)

Thank you for this video and for shooting and editing it in an appreciative way. If you ever have the chance to come back, you can also follow the "Rosenroute", but then take a sidewalk and walk on the Kehrwiederwall (the most beautiful path in Hildesheim besides Keßlerstraße in my opinion) and maybe relax at the Hohnsen-See. But besides that, you covered the most beautiful places in the "urban areas" in Hildesheim. It is not the best city to visit as a tourist to take too many pictures and videos for social media (although you proved that there are areas for that), but you can get a pretty authentic view of how living in Germany is besides all the major cities or very rural areas. When I travel abroad, I love to visit small cities that are not that commonly known for tourists for 2-3 days and just relax alongside locals to try to get a feel of how living a "normal" life outside of big metropolises is. Hildesheim is one of the places where you can do that in Germany and - if you come at the right time - still visit nice city festivals. I do have another tip for you though (especially if you like wine): Go to Würzburg in June or July, go to the alte Mainbrücke to have a Brückenschoppen and visit either the Hofgartenfest or Wein am Stein (and/or do some of the 20 other tourists things that you can do there). Würzburg is a pretty "touristy" place, but it is not too overrun by tourists and is really worth it.

I lived here for 3 years just as the Berlin Wall came down a lot of people don’t know Oscar shindler lived here before he passed away

If you enjoy half-timbered houses then you want to make your way to Wernigerode (used to be East-Germany), enjoy the little town and from there take the steam train up to the Brocken. It''s spectacular. Start early in the morning from Hannover, it's all doable in a day.

If you like old things in Germany, then you haven't reached the end of the scale with "1000 Years of Hildesheim". There are settlements that are significantly older! Of course, this is particularly easy if you go to where the Romans have clung to for a few centuries. Given where you live, I would most likely suggest Xanten. There is a Roman festival there that not only offers spectacle, but also historical acuity. And Xanten has another advantage... Xanten has one of the northernmost amphitheaters on the continent, which has been partially rebuilt. It originally had 10,000 places for visitors. Actually, I would rather suggest the Saalburg, a reconstructed border fortress on the Limes in the Taunus. I know this fort well, as it is close to my home. But Frankfurt is significantly further away from you than Xanten and it also has less to offer in relation to Roman times...

Nice visit to Hildesheim. Too bad that you did not see the Dom, which is older than St. Michaels and is one of the Most important romanische Cathedral in all of Germany, especially the old Bronze doors.The Dom was the Centre of Roman Catholic power from around 800 to 1600, with many interesting art works within the Church. St. Gidion ist also romanische and is a quiert plane to reflecht on the last 1000 years.

You should go and explore Quedlinburg in Germany.

Hildesheim a big disappointment. bombed flat and the city centre is really boring. The beautiful buildings on the market place are reproductions ( The reconstruction was started in the Western part of the Market Place in 1983. ) The first houses, rebuilt in the original style, were inaugurated on 23 March 1986.