 einbeck is a town in the district northeim, in southern lower saxony, germany. it is located on the german timber-frame road. == history == ===prehistory=== the area of the current city of einbeck is inhabited since prehistoric times. various artifacts have been unearthed in the city of einbeck itself and in the little villages and lost villages around it over the years. they date back to the paleolithic era. === medieval period === in the early middle ages a number of villages did exist along the river ilme in the middle leine valley before einbeck was founded. on januar 1, 1158 einbeck was first mentioned in a deed of friedrich barbarossa which mentioned â¦ in loco qui einbike vocatur â¦.a reprint of the original deed can be found in:   the original deed was sealed with a seal of gold, very unusual even for imperial deeds at the time the deed related to a transfer of an estate in the 11th century. count udo of katlenburg owned an estate on the bank of a brook, the krummes wasser. his grandson founded the stift sankt alexandri, that subsequently developed into an important sanctuary. on the other side of this brook a market town developed at the end of the 12th century, mainly due to convenient access for traffic. a church was built there as well, the market church (st. jacob). the floodplain between market and stift was filled in and covered with buildings. the market and stift were walled in and a moat was built. in 1252 einbeck received a town charter and a town council was established. in 1279 the town received through its sovereign, heinrich mirabilis, an extension of its town charter. einbeck was topographically extended and a town wall is mentioned that enclosed the market church st. jacob and the stift st. alexandri. st jacob was (and is) located in the center of the city around the âold marketâ, st. alex
Einbeck Northeim_(district) Towns_in_Lower_Saxony