| Type: | Stadt |
| Seelze | |
| Image Coa: | Wappen Seelze.png |
| Coordinates: | 52.3961°N 9.5981°W |
| Image Plan: | Seelze in H.svg |
| State: | Niedersachsen |
| District: | Hanover |
| Elevation: | 50 |
| Area: | 54 |
| Postal Code: | 30926 |
| Area Code: | 05137, 0511, 05031 |
| Licence: | H |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 03 2 41 015 |
| Website: | www.seelze.de |
| Mayor: | Alexander Masthoff[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2021 - 26 |
| Party: | SPD |
Seelze is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Leine, approximately west of Hanover. Today Seelze mainly plays the role of a bedroom town for commuters working in Hanover.
The local museum and museum of local history (German: Heimatmuseum Seelze) is situated in a timber-framed building from 1856 at the incorporated district of Letter. Subjects of the museum include history of Seelze and its incorporated villages, history of the integration of German postwar refugees from former German territories that are now a part of Russia and Poland, and history of the Seelze marshalling yard (German: Rangierbahnhof). About tree times a year special exhibitions are shown. The permanent exhibition shows a shoemaker's workshop from about 1930, a hairdresser's shop from about 1920, a schoolroom of a village from about 1900, and a living room of about 1900.[2]
Seelze and its subdivisions have three stations on the Hanover S-Bahn network: Letter, Seelze and Dedensen/Gümmer. All are located on the lines S1 and S2.
The is an important marshalling yard in Germany. It is located on the "Freight train bypass Hanover" (WunstorfLehrte) and has 51 classification tracks, 6 main running tracks and workshops for freight cars and electric locomotives on a length of about . With about 200 freight trains a day beginning, ending or passing through the yard, it is a major European marshalling yard and one of the biggest in Germany.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany. Seelze is twinned with:[3]
Grand-Couronne, France
Mosina, Poland