Bad Gandersheim (German pronunciation: [baːt ˈɡandɐshaɪm] ; Eastphalian: Ganderssen) is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, located in the district of Northeim. As of December 2020, it had a population of 9,492. Bad Gandersheim has many half-timbered houses and is located on the German Timber-Frame Road (German: Deutsche Fachwerkstraße). The town contains an airport as well.
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Gandersheim Abbey is a former house of secular canonesses in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony, Germany; at present it is the Evangelical Lutheran Collegiate Church of Saints Anastasius and Innocent at Gandersheim Abbey.
It was founded in 852 by Count Liudolf of Saxony and his wife, Oda, progenitors of the Liudolfing or Ottonian dynasty, whose rich endowments ensured its stability and prosperity.
The "Imperial free secular foundation of Gandersheim", as it was officially known from the 13th century to its dissolution in 1810, was a community of the unmarried daughters of the high nobility, leading a godly life but not under monastic vows, which is the meaning of the word "secular" in the title.
Mass according to the Evangelical Lutheran tradition is held every Sunday at the Evangelical Lutheran Collegiate Church of Saints Anastasius and Innocent at Gandersheim Abbey.
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Gandersheimer Domfestspiele is a theatre festival in Germany. Festival takes place every year from mid-June to mid-August in the spa town of Bad Gandersheim in southern Lower Saxony. The largest open-air theater in Lower Saxony is one of the most traditional festivals in Germany. Over 55,000 spectators attend the festival every year.
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Clus Abbey was an abbey near Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony. It was a daughter-house of Gandersheim Abbey, having been founded in 1127 by Agnes, Abbess of Gandersheim, niece of the Emperor Henry IV, and was part of the Cluniac Reform movement.
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Bad Gandersheim Airport is an aerodrome located in Bad Gandersheim in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony, Germany.
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Kreiensen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Northeim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Since 1 January 2013, it is part of the town Einbeck.