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Amelith is a village part of the Bodenfeld village Nienover in the rural district Northeim (Lower Saxony). 238 citizens live in Amelith.

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The description Amelytt appears in forest invoices Solling already in 1575.

Under the British king George III., at the same time elector of Hanover, the Hanover Spiegelhütte Amelith came into being. It was founded as contra founding to the Braunschweig glass-works Grünenplan between 1776 and 1778. It was to replace the proven cottages in the jurisdiction Nienover from the 15th-century and to bind the glass makers with their families to their working place. The glassworks developed into the most important one in the area and exported glass and mirrors to Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands and to Great Britain. One of their customers was Johann Georg Repsold. Still it was closed well before the 2nd World War.

Amelith came Bodenfelde with the incorporation of Nienover on the am 1. March 1974.

At the redeveloped former industry building of the glassworks Amelith and annexes the Christian drug social work Neues Land runs a therapy and aftercare centre since 1991 and a Hof-Café since 2002. Before the buildings were used as boarding house (Pension Busch) and for agricultural purposes.