Elze

Elze is a town in district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is next to the river Leine, approximately 15 km (9.3 miles) west of Hildesheim. Elze is also one oldest city in the area, and its name comes from Latin : aula caesaris

 Notable people 
 Justus Gesenius (1601-1673), Lutheran theologian
 Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger (1857-1923), mathematician
 Philipp Furtwängler, (1800-1867), organ builder, 
 Philipp Furtwängler, (1869-1940), mathematician (number theorist)
 Günter Halm, (born 1922), bearer of the  Knight's Cross and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

 Twin town 
 Écouché, France since 1972

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