Town Sarstedt
Sarstedt is situated ca 13 km northwest of Hildesheim and 20 km south southeast of Hanover. The river Innerste runs through the town. Sarstedt borders clockwise starting in the east onto Algermissen, Harsum, Giesen and Nordstemmen (rural district Hildesheim) as well as onto Pattensen and Laatzen (region Hanover).
Since the local government reform in 1974 the six villages:
* Heisede: ca. 1.000 citizens
* Giften: ca. 710 citizens
* Gödringen: ca. 610 citizens
* Hotteln: ca 520 citizens
* Ruthe: ca. 355 citizens
* Schliekum: ca. 730 citizens
belong to the main town of Sarstedt with their respective mayors. The population in the main town is 14.000 and together with the villages 18.500.
Neanderthal and the Homo Erectus lived in the boundary of Sarstedt. This is proved especially by the osseous cranium remains of three Neanderthal. Numerous tools were also found, which were used during the time of the Neanderthal.
First settlements took place verifiable ca 7.000 years ago. Sarstedt was first mentioned as a town in a document on 31. January 1339. The town was completely destroyed during the great feud in 1485 and the Hildesheim monastery feud in 1521. In 1543 the reformation was introduced to Sarstedt. From the middle of the 19th-century to the 2nd World War the population grew from around 1.500 to around 5.700. After the war the population increased fast to circa 9.800 because of the displaced persons.
Sarstedt is twinned with the French communities Aubevoye and Gaillon since 1992.
The late-Gothic building of the St.-Nicolai-church, which was the church of the archdiocese Sarstedt until the reformation, was finished in 1457 and replaced a Romanesque previous building from the 11th-century. Name giver is he holy Nicolaus as patron saint for merchants. In 1543 the Lutheran church order was introduced to church and town.
The Catholic Holy-Ghost-church was built in neo-Romanesque style in 1912/13. In 2002 a thorough interior renovation was done with post-modern design elements.
As Sarstedt's second Lutheran church was the St.-Paul-church founded in the district Giebelstieg in 1963-65. Constructed with ferro-concrete skeleton and veneered with light coloured clinker in the style of a basilica. The slightly producing tower is crowned with a proclamation angel and is 37m high.
Sarstedt is situated at the Hanover south-railway Hanover–Göttingen as well as Hanover–Hildesheim–Goslar–Halle (Saale). With the city train Hanover the Hanover central railway station can be reached. In addition there is a direct city-train connection to Hanover. Diverse bus lines are available for the inner transport and connections to Hildesheim, Elze, Nordstemmen and Rethen.