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Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Lower Saxony
- District
- Hildesheim
- Municipal assoc
- Leinebergland
- Mayor
- Karl Heinz Gieseler SPD
- Total
- 88.39 km (34.13 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 79 m (259 ft)
- Density
- 119.1/km (308.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Vehicle registration
- HI
- Website
- www.gronau-leine.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Hildesheim
- Contains
- Rheden
- Population
- 10882
- Area
- 88.39
- Elevation
- 79
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.gronau-leine.de
- Image
- Rathaus Gronau (Leine).jpg
- Dialing code
- 05182
- Licence plate code
- HI
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- Commons category
- Gronau (Leine)
- postal code
- 31028
- twinned administrative body
- Mézidon-Canon
- P8168
- Kriva
- hashtag
- GronauLeine
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gronau (Leine)” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.