| Type: | Stadt |
| Barsinghausen | |
| Image Coa: | Wappen Barsinghausen.png |
| Coordinates: | 52.3°N 9.4811°W |
| Image Plan: | Barsinghausen in H.svg |
| State: | Niedersachsen |
| District: | Hanover |
| Elevation: | 142 |
| Area: | 102.65 |
| Postal Code: | 30890 |
| Area Code: | 05105 |
| Licence: | H |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 03 2 41 002 |
| Divisions: | 18 district |
| Website: | www.barsinghausen.de |
| Mayor: | Henning Schünhof[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2020 - 25 |
| Party: | SPD |
Barsinghausen (pronounced as /de/) is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Deister chain of hills approx. 20 km west of Hanover. Barsinghausen belongs to the historic landscape Calenberg Land and was first mentioned in 1193.
Barsinghausen adjoins Wunstorf, Seelze, Gehrden, Springe, Bad Nenndorf and Wennigsen.
Barsinghausen consists of 18 districts:Bantorf, Barrigsen, Barsinghausen, Eckerde, Egestorf, Göxe, Großgoltern, Nordgoltern, Groß Munzel, Hohenbostel, Holtensen, Kirchdorf, Landringhausen, Langreder, Ostermunzel, Stemmen, Wichtringhausen, Winninghausen
Barsinghausen is the site of an old double monastery (“Kloster Barsinghausen”) that was established during the High Middle Ages. At that time, fertile loess soil and a number of influent streams to river Südaue constituted a central fundament for farming and numerous windmills in Calenberg Land. Barsinghausen became a coal mining town between 1871 and 1957. After World War II, other sectors of industry began to dominate Barsinghausen's economy.
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Barsinghausen is home to "Kloster Barsinghausen", a nunnery first mentioned in 1193 (now a Lutheran women's convent, to Monastery Church St. Mary ("Marienkirche"), to the Deister Open Air Theater (“Deister Freilichtbühne”), to the exhibition mine “Klosterstollen”, to Sport Hotel Fuchsbachtal and to Lower Saxony's Soccer Association. The Colossus of Ostermunzel is a glacial erratic qualified as a natural monument.[2] Its large size is abnormal, particularly for northern Germany and especially for Lower Saxony.[3]
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany. Barsinghausen is twinned with:[4]
Brzeg Dolny, Poland
Kovel, Ukraine
Mont-Saint-Aignan, France