Also known as the City of Roses, Hildesheim welcomes you into an impressive world with its approximately 50,000 rose bushes. Take a trip to enchanted castles, stroll along the half-timbered houses in the city centre or enjoy nature in the city’s green parks and lakes. As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city is a hidden gem among students.
You will quickly find your way around Hildesheim - with its 100,000 inhabitants, the city is fairly compact. Its charming size also ensures that everything is within easy reach by bike or on foot, including the cafés, cinema, theatres, shops and, of course, the higher education institutions. There are three of them: the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen has its headquarters and largest campus in Hildesheim with about 3,000 students. In addition, there is the University of Hildesheim with about 8,000 students and the North German School of Justice (Norddeutsche Hochschule für Rechtspflege) with about 400 students.
And if occasionally Hildesheim should feel too provincial or you want to get a taste of the big city, you can be in the state capital Hanover in half an hour. Plus, Hamburg and Berlin are only about two hours away via the ICE high-speed train. There, you’ll have more options if you want to go out in the evening, but in Hildesheim itself, you will also find what you are looking for: here you can enjoy good live music and there are also festivals. In addition to well-known events such as the M'era Luna Festival, which is especially popular with the darkwave and goth scene, there is also the newly founded Marktplatz Musik Festival with a diverse programme of jazz, blues, swing or pop & rock!
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