Sehnde: Guide, Hotels, Map & Photos
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EUR 95 - 115 Landhaus Jürgens
 This family-run hotel is located in the village of Bolzum, a 20-minute drive from Hannover city centre. It offers country-style rooms with free Wi-Fi,… MoreEUR 67 - 99 Parkhotel Bilm im Glück
 This hotel offers rooms with a free minibar, an indoor pool, and great links with the A7 motorway. The Messe Hannover Trade Fair is 7 km away.
All of… MoreEUR 48 - 160 Landhaus Bolzum
 Only 13 km from the Messe Hannover Exhibition Centre, this guest house in Bolzum offers traditional-style accommodation with satellite TV, free Wi-Fi … MoreEUR 45 - 235 Kretschmanns Hotel
 Just a 30-minute drive from Hanover and a 5-minute walk from Sehnde S-Bahn (city rail) Station, this hotel features a regional restaurant and rooms wi… MoreEUR 49 - 320 Apart Hotel Sehnde
 Boasting a desirable location in the heart of Sehnde, these attractively designed apartments are ideal for discerning business travellers and tourists… MoreEUR 49 - 777 Hotel & Restaurant Bei Baki
 Only 13 km from the Hanover trade fair and 15 km from central Hanover, this long-standing hotel and restaurant provides a peaceful base in the village… MoreEUR 98 - 195 Altes Rittergut
 This historic hotel in Sehnde-Bolzum offers a big garden, an original exhibition of stone objects, and quiet rooms with cable TV. Hanover is 30 minute… More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sehnde: Guide
Sehnde is a town in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. It is fifteen kilometres south-east of Hanover, and has a population of 22,000 (2005).
History
Sehnde was formed in 1974 by combining fifteen autonomous villages which belonged to three different districts: Bilm, Bolzum, Dolgen, Evern, Gretenberg, Haimar, Hoever, Ilten, Klein Lobke, Müllingen, Rethmar, Sehnde, Wassel, Wehmingen, and Wirringen. Sehnde received its town charter in 1997.
The whole area was agriculture|agricultural for centuries, until large salt and potash deposits were discovered at the end of the 19th century. Several potash mining|mines were dug, the first at Gustavshall in Hohenfels in 1896. During the 20th century, Sehnde and Ilten were the chief beneficiaries of the mines, until the last one was closed in 1995. Since the 1950s, most of the area has been transformed into dormitory villages, while jobs have concentrated in Hannover. In 2005, small one-family houses dominate large parts of Sehnde and its villages.
Culture
The former potash mine Hohenfels in Wehmingen houses the national German rail transport|tramway museum, the Hannoversches Straßenbahn-Museum.
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