What is Elze?
{{Infobox German location |type = Stadt |image_coa = Wappen Elze.png |coordinates = {{coord|52|7|N|09|44|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Elze in HI.svg |state = Niedersachsen |district = Hildesheim |elevation = 79 |area = 47.71 |population = 9519 |Stand = 2004-12-31 |Gemeindeschlüssel = 03254014 |postal_code = 31008 |area_code = 05068 |licence = HI |website = [http://www.elze.de/ www.elze.de] |mayor = Pfeiffer }} [[File:Elze Rathaus.jpg|thumb|200px|The town hall.]] '''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 of the Iron Cross | Knight's Cross]] and [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] == Twin town == *{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Écouché]], [[France]] since 1972 == References == {{reflist}} {{geo-stub}}