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Gronau, Lower Saxony

Town in Lower Saxony, Germany

Coat of arms

Location of Gronau within Hildesheim district

52°04′N 9°47′E / 52.067°N 9.783°E / 52.067; 9.783CountryGermanyStateLower SaxonyDistrictHildesheim Municipal assoc.LeineberglandGovernment

• MayorKarl Heinz Gieseler SPDArea

• Total88.13 km² (34.03 sq mi)Elevation

79 m (259 ft)Population

(2022-12-31)^[1]

• Total10,832 • Density120/km² (320/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codes

31028

Vehicle registrationHIWebsitewww.gronau-leine.de

Gronau (German pronunciation: [ˈɡʁoːnaʊ] ^ⓘ) is a town and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the River Leine, approximately 15 km southwest of Hildesheim, and 35 km south of Hanover. Since 1 November 2016, the former municipalities Banteln, Betheln, Brüggen, Despetal and Rheden are part of the municipality Gronau.

Gronau is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") of Leinebergland.

Honiton, United Kingdom, is twinned with Gronau.

Personalities

Armin Kaufmann (1922-1985), born in Banteln, lawyer and university lecturer
Jürgen Mlynek (born 1951), physicist

References

^ "LSN-Online Regionaldatenbank, Tabelle A100001G: Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes, Stand 31. Dezember 2022" (in German). Landesamt für Statistik Niedersachsen.