Celle is a district town in Lower Saxony on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath. It is located about 30 kilometers north-east of Hanover. The city of Celle, which is also known as the southern gateway to the Lüneburg Heath, attracts travelers from all over the world, in particular with its well-preserved half-timbered old town and its castle with one of the oldest theaters in Europe. The old town, surrounded by the Aller in the north and spared from destruction in the Second World War, consists of a good 400 half-timbered houses, most of which have been extensively renovated, and forms a particularly interesting ensemble of completely preserved streets and alleys around the Great Plan and the Stechbahn. The place is also known as the seat of the Lower Saxony State Stud, where the Hanoverian warmblood horses, world-famous in equestrian sports, are bred.
Churches, synagogues
1 Stadtkirche St. Marien, An der
Stadtkirche 8, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 77 35, email:
info@stadtkirche-celle.de.
Twice a day, at 9:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., the tower blower climbs up
the 74.5 m high tower of the 700 year old church and blows a chorale
in all four directions like in the old days. The start of
construction of the three-aisled Gothic hall church coincides with
the time the city was founded; it was consecrated as St. Mary's
Church by the Bishop of Hildesheim as early as 1308. In the years
1676 - 1698 the building was provided with a barrel vault and
redesigned in Baroque style. Particularly worth seeing are: the
altar from 1613, the grave monuments of the Guelph Dukes (16th /
17th century) in the choir, the gallery pictures (17th century) and
the baroque organ reconstructed in 1999 based on the original plans
from 1687. While one side of the Stechbahn is lined with
half-timbered houses, the town church rises up on the other side.
Open: Tue-Sat 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Jan. - March only until 5 p.m.
(except during church services). Climbing of the church tower
possible Tue-Sat 10-11.45 a.m. and 2-4.45 p.m. Price: ascent of the
tower, adults € 1, children € 0.50.
2 St. Ludwig Church,
Julius-von-der-Wall-Str. 1, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 9 74 48
10, email:
pfarrbuero@st-ludwig-celle.de. The catholic church was
built by city architect J.D.A Spetzler. It is Northern Germany's
only purely classical church building. The church was formerly a
private building outside the city walls of the city of Celle. There
was no Catholic church in Celle, so in 1710 the private house became
a chapel for the mostly foreign Catholics. The chapel was only
consecrated as a church in 1838. The towers were not added to the
house until 1881. The central axis of the French Garden runs towards
the church, better from the front of the church with the towers.
3 Synagogue, Im Kreise 24, 29221 Celle. In the background of the
building is the synagogue, built around 1740, the oldest surviving
Jewish building in Northern Germany. Parts of the Torah shrine with
its elaborate crowning date from the time it was built. Celle has
had a new Jewish community since 1997, and the synagogue is used for
church services. A small museum in the neighboring house is used to
present changing exhibitions on Jewish history. Open: Tue-Thu 12
p.m. - 5 p.m., Fri 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Sun 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Castles, chateaux and palaces
4 Celle Castle, Schloßplatz 1,
29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 12 373, Fax: +49 51 41 12 76 05,
E-Mail:
fuehrungen@celle-tourismus.de. The oldest building in the
city is the Celle Castle. Mentioned for the first time in 1318 as
"castrum", its oldest parts date from the second half of the 13th
century. Over time, the initially simple castle was converted into
an elaborate four-wing complex and expanded, with a unique mixture
of Renaissance and Baroque. The Residenz Museum is located in the
east wing of the palace. The castle houses the oldest baroque
theater in Germany that is still in use today, as well as the castle
chapel, the only church north of the Alps with fully preserved
Renaissance furnishings. As part of a guided tour of the palace, you
can also visit the residence museum located in the ducal apartments,
the baroque state apartments and the palace kitchen. Open: Guided
tours: Apr. - Oct. Tue - Fri + Sun 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., Sat 11
a.m. - 3 p.m. every hour. Nov - March Tue - Fri: 11 a.m. 3 p.m., Sat
+ Sun 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. Price: adults € 7, reduced € 5.
Buildings
In the old town alone there are over 400 restored,
listed half-timbered houses to marvel at, which offer a picturesque
picture and leave an unforgettable impression. Special historical
buildings are:
5 Stechinelli House The Großer Plan 14 house
is named after the ducal court agent and general inheritance
postmaster Francesco Stechinelli (1640-1694), who lived in it from
1675 onwards. The current building in classical style was built in
1795.
6 Old Marstall Of the farm and stable buildings, the
so-called outer bailey of Celle Castle, there is only the old
Marstall in the Westcellertorstrasse / corner of Schlossplatz. The
building with its carefully crafted ashlar walls was built in 1664.
In the gable is the coat of arms of the last Duke Georg Wilhelm.
7 Hoppener Haus The corner house at Poststrasse / Rundestrasse, one
of the most elaborate half-timbered buildings in the city, was built
by the ducal rentmaster Simon Hoppener. Exactly in front of it is a
pipeline post with the heraldic lion, one of three water wells of
the fiscal aqueduct from the 16th century.
8 Old Town Hall, Celle Town Hall, one of the oldest buildings in
the city, consists of two parts. The older part rises above the
Ratskeller with its Gothic ribbed vault. A kink in the outer front
marks the construction seam of the extension from 1580/81. In the
16th century, the older part of the building was also modernized and
given the elaborate facade painting, which was only uncovered and
reconstructed in 1985. The north gable, a masterpiece of the Weser
Renaissance, also dates from that time.
Museums
9 Bomann
Museum, Schloßplatz 7, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 12 372, fax:
+49 51 41 12 535, email:
bomann-museum@celle.de. One of the most beautiful and
largest regional museums in Northern Germany. The focus of the
collection is the cultural history of the Lower Saxony area and the
state and city history. Among other things, a fully furnished
farmhouse, rural and bourgeois parlors, urban and rural clothing as
well as aspects of Celle's craft and industrial history are shown.
Open: Tue-Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Price: adults € 5, child. up to 14
years free.
10 Residence Museum in Celle Castle, Schlossplatz 1,
29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 12 373, Fax: +49 51 41 12 535, E-Mail:
counter.schloss@celle-tourismus.de. The Celle Castle, the
oldest building in the city with the foundation walls from 1292 and
the former residence of the mighty Principality of Lüneburg. A
guided tour is offered through the early baroque, ducal state
chambers, the oldest, still in permanent use castle theater in
Germany (only to be visited after the rehearsal), a furnished castle
kitchen from the 18th century and the castle chapel with a
completely preserved Renaissance interior from 16th Century. Open:
Tue – Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Price: adults € 5, child. up to 14 years
free.
24-hour art museum, Schlossplatz 7, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +
49 51 41 12 685, Fax: + 49 51 41 12 495, E-Mail:
kunstmuseum@celle.de.
39854828 - a worldwide unique museum concept is registered under
this number at the German Trademark and Patent Office in Munich: the
24-hour art museum offers encounters with modern and contemporary
art from the Robert Simon collection in the morning, noon, evening
and night. 24-hour art museum means that there is something to
discover around the clock. The house changes its face every half day
- with the opening and closing of the doors. The day and night sides
can almost never be visited at the same time. If you want to see the
whole museum, you come twice - day and night. The Kunstmuseum Celle
is located directly opposite the Residenzschloss in the middle of
the historic city center of Celle, at the Bomann Museum. Open:
Tue-Sun 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. At night from the outside: daily 5pm -
10am.
11 Celler Garrison Museum, Hafenstr. 4, 29223 Celle. Tel .:
+49 51 41 21 46 42. The Garrison Museum deals with the history of
the Celle Garrison from 1866 to the present day. It houses an
extensive collection of uniforms, firearms and edged weapons, medals
and decorations as well as numerous original items of equipment from
the history of the Celle garrison. The collection is supplemented by
a wide variety of documents: letters, photographs, certificates,
postcards, contemporary paintings. A communications device from 1916
to 2000 is also shown. Open: Wed 1-6pm, Sat 10 am-2pm. Groups by
appointment, also outside of opening hours. Guided tours by
arrangement. Dec-Feb closed. Price: Free entry, donations welcome.
Haesler Museum live and live in Bauhaus architecture, Rauterbergweg
1, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 98 00 67, Fax: +49 51 41 88 12 74,
E-Mail:
info@haeslerstiftung.de. In the former washing and bathing
house of Blumläger Feld (1930/31), plans, photos and models of
buildings by the architect Otto Haesler can be seen in addition to
the original furnishings. There are also two apartments that have
been reconstructed in the style of the 1930s and 1950s or their
structural design is shown. Open: every 1st Sunday of the month 3
p.m. - 6 p.m. and by appointment. Price: Free entry.
12 LAVES -
Institute for Apiculture, Herzogin-Eleonore-Allee 5 (French Garden),
29221 Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 90 50 340, Fax: +49 51 41 90 50 344.
In order to promote beekeeping, the decline of which went hand in
hand with the shrinking of the heather, the Bee Institute - today
LAVES - Institute for Bee Research Celle was founded. Today, the
tasks of the institute include the education and training of
beekeepers, a nationwide advisory service as well as diverse
research and investigation tasks (chemical and biological honey
research, bee pathology, costume research, ecological importance of
honey and wild bees, beekeeping). The presentation "Beekeeping" in
the stairwell from 1607 and in parts of the former orangery building
from 1677 is worth seeing. Open: Mon - Thu 9am - 12pm and 2pm -
3.30pm, Fri 9am - 12pm.
Schützenmuseum, Altencellertorstraße 1, 29221 Celle. Tel .: +49
51 41 84 145, Fax: +49 51 41 24 741. The shooting museum in the
"Haus der Stadtmauer" founded in 1976 offers the unique painting
gallery of the main kings of Celle, combined with an exhibition of
royal orders, shooting awards, trophies and Documents from the last
centuries in the Celle shooting range. Guns are not shown. Open: In
the summer months Sun 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Price: Free entry.
Streets and squares
An important reason for many travelers to
come to Celle is the old town with more than 400 half-timbered
houses. The city survived the Second World War without a bomb
attack, so the old town was completely preserved as an ensemble. All
houses are listed and have been restored. Very little new building
fabric was added. Motor vehicle traffic is largely kept out of the
old town, most of the alleys and paths are pedestrian zones and only
a few streets are open to traffic as a 30 km / h zone.
In the
numerous half-timbered streets there is a wide range of shops and
restaurants. The old town is also lively on weekends. Many
restaurants offer picturesque backyards for dining. Anyone who comes
to Celle on a sunny day is lucky, because the light of the sun gives
the city a special touch.
Large plan, main square of the old
town with fully preserved half-timbered ensemble on all rows of
houses.
A look into Kalandgasse opens up a dreamy, romantic
street. The Latin school with its rich carving is particularly worth
seeing. The Kalandgasse flows into the Stechbahn, the former
tournament area with the court pharmacy and now the lion pharmacy
built around 1530. There is a horseshoe in the pavement in front of
the building. It marks the place where Duke Otto the Magnanimous is
said to have had an accident in 1471.
Parks
French garden
The French garden was probably named after the French gardeners
Perronet (from 1670) and Rene Dahuron (1690-1701), who were in the
service of Duke Georg Wilhelm in Celle. In the years 1695 and 1696 a
double avenue of lime trees was planted and gave the garden a
dominant central axis in east-west direction that still exists
today. In 1705 Celle lost its function as a royal seat. The garden
was neglected and only experienced a new brief period of prosperity
under the court gardener Krantz in 1772. The occasion was the
banishment of the Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde to Celle. For them
was i.a. a summer house was built by the pond and a monument was
erected in 1784, which disappeared as early as 1801. In the middle
of the 19th century, it was gradually converted into an English
landscape park. After the First World War, the children's
playground, which still exists today, was laid out in the east, a
small rose garden in the west and the State Institute for Bee
Research was founded in 1927 by separating the northern part of the
garden. The French Garden is now a protected garden monument.
Palace Park Today, the palace grounds are a popular meeting
point not only for the citizens of Celle, but also for our numerous
tourists who either start from here with a city tour or relax from
shopping. The prehistory of the palace complex begins in the late
18th century. The area between the castle and the castle moat, which
is reduced to an average width of 23 feet (approx. 6.7 m), was
planted with trees and used as a promenade along a poplar avenue
leading all around.
Trift systems - The originally old cattle
drift in front of the Westerceller Tor was planned for the first
time in 1680 under the last Duke of Celle, Georg Wilhelm
(1624-1705), in a so-called "suggestion scratch". The background to
this was the necessary urban expansion in the west. The Trift was
supposed to serve as a main line in an east-west direction for the
northern and southern development and would thus have stood in the
tradition of the typical urban expansion plans of the second half of
the 17th century. In addition to its historical significance for
urban development and the green space that characterizes the
cityscape, today the Trift is primarily used for recreation close to
home in the countryside for the adjacent, very densely built-up
residential areas in the south and west.
City garden - A new city garden was created on the site of the
former heather barracks on the edge of the old town and immediately
south of the historic French garden. The 1.9 hectare city garden is
located in the middle of the traditional military area, which will
in future be determined by living and concentration, especially of
the city administration offices. The showpiece is a 2,200 m² water
surface that ends in a circular area with a diameter of a good 20 m.
Over 70 new large trees, 3,000 shrubs and 1,000 hedge plants
structure the garden and guide the visitor on the newly built paths
to the desired destination. But there are also plenty of incentives
to linger: 1,500 roses of all kinds, 25,000 perennials and 20,000
flower bulbs will surely not only delight bees and butterflies with
their blooms and their scent, but also as a new attraction the
citizens of Celle and the tourists.
Medicinal plant garden in
Celle. One of the largest medicinal plant gardens in Europe is
located between the Allerwiesen and Wittinger Straße, covering
around 7,000 m². You can stroll between medicinal herbs or enjoy the
bubbling spring pot. Over 300 scented, aromatic, poisonous and magic
plants are presented, references to Sebastian Kneipp and Hildegard
von Bingen are shown. In addition to your own explorations using the
information boards, guided tours can also be attended (group tour 1
hour for € 50, or public tours from June to September on the 1st and
3rd Saturday of the month for € 2.50 / person, meeting at the main
entrance on Wittinger Straße, beginning at 2:30 p.m.). Open: March
to November daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Price: Admission is free
except for special events.
The Cafe KräuTher and the KräuTher
shop are located on the premises (see website). The café and shop
are open Wed-Sun from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, closed Mon / Tuesdays, and
Fri 12:00 noon for senior lunches.
Various
Aqua Celle. in
the sewage treatment plant, presents entertaining knowledge about
the topic of water. In the permanent exhibition, multimedia
information material - from water production and consumption to
wastewater treatment - is comprehensively and clearly presented. The
visitors experience the practice as part of a tour of the site,
which is technically, scenically and architecturally one of the most
presentable facilities in Germany.
Celle hydroelectric power
station. The historic Celle hydroelectric power station is located
north of the old town. If you drive east from Neumarkt into
Hafenstrasse, you will find a free car park on the right. From here
you can already see the hydroelectric power station. The rapids of
the Aller used to be here, which hindered shipping to Braunschweig.
All freight had to be reloaded in the port. Eventually, the Aller
was dammed up because trade with Braunschweig no longer played a
role.
Lower Saxony State Stud Celle, Spörckenstrasse 10, 29221
Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 92 940, fax: +49 51 41 92 94 31, email:
poststelle@lgst-celle.niedersachsen.de. The state stud was
founded on July 27, 1735 by Elector Georg II of Hanover, it is the
breeding center of one of the most important warmblood horse breeds
in the world, the Hanoverians. The stallions stationed in the state
stud are fathers of many internationally known sport horses, the
state stud with its branches such as The stallion rearing station in
Hunnesrück near Dassel is a destination for horse lovers from all
over the world. The annual stallion parades that take place on the
last weekend of September and the first weekend in October are a
special experience. The state stud can be visited, and it is
possible to visit many of the historical stables and watch the
stallions being trained in the riding arenas. Open: Mo-Fr 8.30 a.m.
- 5.00 p.m., Sa 8.30 a.m. - 11.30 a.m.
Arts and Culture
CD barracks, Hannoversche Strasse 30b, 29221
Celle. Phone: +49 51 41 97 72 90, fax: +49 51 41 97 72 929, e-mail:
info@cd-kaserne.de. With its many tenants and users, two youth clubs and
an area of 33,000 square meters, the CD barracks under the
administration of the non-profit GmbH of the same name is far more than
one of the largest youth centers in Lower Saxony. As a large event
center, it is a partner for concert and cultural organizers from all
over Germany.
City Palace Celle, Langensalzaplatz 1, 29221 Celle.
Tel.: +49 5141 25 00 6, fax: +49 5141 26 71 1, e-mail:
info@stadtpalais-celle.de. Event meeting point for young and old.
Whether celebrating parties or switching off with a cocktail, the
Stadtpalais offers this opportunity. There are various rooms on two
levels. Events and opening times will be announced. In summer, a large
beer garden with around 1000 seats awaits you.
Art & Stage, Nordwall
46, 29221 Celle. Cabaret stage on the outskirts of Celle's old town. You
can spend an eventful evening here in a unique atmosphere. From comedy
to chanson, jazz and cabaret to cinema, everything is on offer. not
barrier-free The toilets are not wheelchair accessible.
Castle
Theater Celle, Celle Castle. Box office: Markt 18. Tel.: +49 51 41 90
508 75, +49 51 41 90 508 76 (both box offices), email:
karten@schlosstheater-celle.de. The oldest baroque theater still in use
today with a permanent ensemble. Open: Box office Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 9
a.m. to 3 p.m., Sat 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tue closed.
Sport and
freetime
Celle Badeland, 77er Strasse, 29221 Celle. Phone: +49 51 41
95 19 350, fax: +49 51 41 95 19 359, e-mail: info@celler-badeland.de.
Westercelle outdoor pool, Wilhelm-Hasselmann-Strasse. Tel.: +49 51 41 97
73 69. Open: Summer season: Mon - Fri 6 a.m. - 8 p.m., Sat, Sun and
public holidays 8 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Several 5 boat rentals in the
Fritzenwiese street above the Allersperre allow paddling on the Aller.
With rowing and paddle boats or canoes, you travel upstream on the
dammed Aller through the nature reserve Obere Allerniederung and then
drift back again.
Events
On the last weekend in September and
the first weekend in October, those interested in Hanoverian breeding
are drawn to the state stud farm (see attractions) for the Celle
Hengstparade, a four-hour event on the large riding arena in the center
of the stud farm, where the Hanoverian stallions compete in dressage and
jumping demonstrations are presented. The spectacle, which is the
largest event for the Hanoverian breeding area alongside the auctions in
Verden, was originally a show for breeders who wanted to see the range
of performance of the current stallions - in the past, keeping stallions
was a state task to ensure that that enough horses were bred for
agriculture and the military. Today, the show no longer only attracts
professionals, but everyone who can enjoy a colorful show with
high-class horses.
On the second weekend in Advent, the state stud
farm offers a Christmas market with a very special flair in the
traditional stables and halls.
By plane
The nearest international airport is Hanover Airport
(IATA code: HAJ). From the airport there is a rail connection via
Hanover main station to Celle.
Arloh Airport near the
district of Scheuen is only approved for sport aircraft up to 3.5 t.
By train
Celle is on the Hanover - Hamburg railway line, the
Bahnhof Bahnhof is just outside the city center. Half-hourly
connections during the day in the direction of Hanover, hourly in
the direction of Uelzen.
S6 / 7 via Burgdorf (Hanover) and
Lehrte (only S7) to Hanover (35/45 min.)
Metronome to Hamburg via
Uelzen, or to Hanover (approx. 25 min.) And on to Göttingen.
The
IC from Frankfurt am Main to Hamburg stops once or several times a
day. The IC takes approx. 18 minutes to and from Hanover.
Rare
ICE stop.
By bus
Celle is served by various coach
companies from all over Germany. There are connections to all major
cities. There is no central bus station. All buses stop at the
central transfer point "Schlossplatz", which is right in the old
town.
By street
Celle is a little off the German autobahn,
but the B3, which is an extension of the A37 from Hanover to Celle,
is almost completely two-lane in each direction. To the north, the
B3 continues via Soltau to Hamburg. The B214, another important
connection, continues west towards Nienburg (Weser) and south-east
to Braunschweig.
Coming from Hamburg, leave the A7 motorway
at exit 45 (Soltau Süd) and follow the B3 to the southeast for
approx. 42 km.
Coming from the south, leave the A7 at Kreuz 56
(Hannover Kirchhorst) onto the A37 (the so-called moor motorway),
which later merges into the B3. Follow this for 29 km to Celle.
From the west, take the A2 to Hanover and change to the A37 / B3 at
the Hannover Buchholz junction (exit 47) - 33 km to Celle.
Coming
from Berlin or Braunschweig, leave the A2 at junction 53
(BS-Watenbüttel) and drive for 42 km on the B241.
The German
half-timbered street leads through the place.
By boat
From
Celle, the Aller is navigable downstream as a federal waterway with
larger ships. In earlier times, the port of Celle was an important
transshipment port for goods on the route between Braunschweig and
Bremen, the importance of which only declined from around 1900.
Today the Aller is only used by excursion boats. There is no
regular service to larger cities. The Allernixe, the Lower Saxony
and the coat of arms of Celle are operated. From the port of Celle
it goes west. The river meanders past the villages of Boye, Stedden,
Oldau, Winsen and Bannetze. There is a small restaurant on the
ships.
Celle Harbor / Yacht Club Celle, Hafenstr. 11c, 29233
Celle. Tel .: +49 51 41 55 07 05, +49 15 11 29 20 841 (both harbor
masters). The port of Celle has been operated by the Celle Yacht
Club since the final cessation of commercial shipping in 1970, which
also offers berths for guests.
Canoe hikers also use the
Aller, which can be ridden leisurely even when tired, and with more
current from Celle. Placement in Celle e.g. in Boye.
By
bicycle
The Aller cycle path is long-distance cycle path 7 of the
Lower Saxony network. Coming from Gifhorn it is about 47 km to
Celle, further west leading is the next larger town Schwarmstedt,
which can be reached after about 41 km on the Aller cycle path.
The Lüneburger-Heide-Radweg and the Celle-Gifhorn long-distance
cycle path are also signposted, but they are largely congruent with
the Aller cycle path.
On foot
The following long-distance
hiking trails lead through or to Celle:
the European
long-distance hiking trail E1
the Heidschnuckenweg leads from
Hamburg-Neugraben-Fischbek and others. via Buchholz in the north
heath, Schneverdingen, Soltau and Müden (Oertze) to Celle, where the
path ends at the castle.
the Via Scandinavica, the Scandinavian
Way of St. James, the German section of which leads from Fehmarn via
Lübeck and Lüneburg through Celle and on to Göttingen.
The old town is easy to explore on foot, there are five parking
garages around it, four of which are in the immediate vicinity of
the city center, which are well signposted. There are also two
parking pallets, one directly at the swimming pool. Half of the
places are free here.
Celle is also a bike-friendly city with
many bike paths, including on the main roads. Only a few streets in
the surrounding area do not have a separate cycle path.
The
CeBus company ensures regional local transport. The buses in the
city area of Celle and in the nearby towns run quite frequently from
the train station to the Schlossplatz every 15 minutes. Buses to the
district, often only every hour.
As a medium-sized town, Celle has everything you need for everyday
life. Even if the city center has to struggle with individual vacancies,
a shopping spree through the numerous small retail shops in the old town
is still worthwhile.
The weekly market takes place on Wednesdays
and Saturdays in the old town (at the market and along the Stechbahn).
In summer from 7:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., in winter only from 8:00 a.m.
Orchid Center Celle. The Orchideen Zentrum Wichmann with its own
garden center is located between Celle and the northern district of Groß
Hehlen on the B3.
There is only one dish in Celle that you can only get here, and that
is the Celler Roulade. That sounds unspectacular at first, what is
special about the Celler Roulade is that it is a raw roulade. Made from
well aged beef, a secret blend of spices, a secret mustard, bacon and
onions. What sounds a bit strange at first is a dish that is now well
known beyond the borders of Celle.
The Old Provisor is a herbal
liqueur with 50% alcohol that was made by a Celle pharmacist in the last
century. Today the pharmacy is closed, the liqueur is trademarked and
people still like to drink it.
1 Beer Academy, Weißer Wall 6,
29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 23 450, e-mail:
Bierakademiecelle@t-online.de. In the north of Celle's old town in a
beautiful half-timbered house, very close to the Neumarkt. You can dine
in a rustic style on two floors. In addition to Celler Rouladen, there
is good German cuisine.
2 Zum Schwejk, Kanzleistrasse 7, 29221 Celle.
Phone: +49 5141 23 353.
3 El sueno, Südwall 5, 29221 Celle. Phone:
+49 51 41 36 03 044.
4 May Thai, Bremer Weg 169, 29223 Celle. Phone:
+49 51 41 53 163.
5 La Brasserie, Bremer Weg 132A (at the Heidekönig
Hotel Celle). Tel.: +49 5141 52031, fax: +49 5141 52689, e-mail:
info@hotelcelle.de. The restaurant "La Brasserie" is located in the
"Heidekönig Hotel Celle". Feature: German cuisine. Open: Monday to
Saturday from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., closed on Sundays. Accepted payment
methods: Cash, EC card, Master, Visa, AMEX, Diners etc. (52° 38′ 2″ N
10° 3′ 46″ E)
1 Incognito discotheque, Zur Fuchsfarm 1, 29227 Celle. Tel.: +49 51
41 98 12 12, fax: +49 51 41 98 12 11, e-mail: info@inkognito-celle.de.
Young and old come from all over Lower Saxony to celebrate in this large
disco. At the weekends, sometimes also during the week, different themed
parties are held in the three halls. Except for special events (e.g.
Hellfire of House), the entrance fee is around three euros. At
"1-Euro-Parties" all open mixed drinks are offered for only one euro.
The "I" or "Inko", as the people of Celle call it, is very crowded,
especially on weekends. The Inkognito is near the B3 in the direction of
Hanover in the Westercelle district. At night you just have to follow
the big spotlight that can be seen in the sky almost everywhere in
Celle.
2 Schattauer, Lüneburger Strasse 22, 29223 Celle. Tel.: +49 51
41 93 03 73, fax: +49 51 41 93 03 10, e-mail: info@schattauer-celle.de.
You can spend a cozy evening in the beer garden/restaurant/pub/café
Schattauer, named after the family that runs it. It's easy to get to and
find. It is just a few minutes walk from the old town. In the north of
the old town you have to follow the B3 over the Aller, then turn right
towards the hospital. Then follow Lüneburger Straße past the hospital.
Open: Mon-Thu 11am-2am, Fri & Sat 11am-3am, Sun 10am-2am.
3 rooms in
the Congress Union, Thaerplatz 1, 29221 Celle. Phone: +49 51 41 91 94
23, fax: +49 51 41 91 94 44, email: info@thaers.de. Meeting people/
after work. Open: daily 11.30 a.m. - 1.00 a.m.
4 Old beer and wine
taverns, Piltzergasse 9, 29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 28 381. More of a
fun pub than a wine selection. Open: every day except Sundays.
5
Herzog Ernst, Neue Strasse 15, 29221 Celle. Very cosy, host personality
from Celle's veteran rock.
6 Weinkeller Postmeister von Hinüber,
Zöllnerstr. 25, 29221 Celle. Tel: (0)5141 28444. Warm meals. Open: Tue –
Sat from 6 p.m., Sat also from 12 p.m. – 2 p.m., kitchen until 10 p.m.
Cheap
1 camper place Schützenplatz, Schützenplatz, Hafenstraße.
For free. Public toilets available.
2 RV parking spaces on 77er
Strasse, Langensalzaplatz. Public toilets available.
3 Silbersee
campsite, Zum Silbersee 19, 29229 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 31 223. Between
the northeastern districts of Vorwerk and Garßen.
4 Rita's Bed and
Breakfast, Bergstr. 25, 29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 99 33 654, e-mail:
reservierung@bed-and-breakfast-celle.de, frage@pension.de. Small
owner-managed pension in a half-timbered house on the edge of the old
town. Feature: pension. Price: Double room (two people) €58, double room
(one person) €34, including breakfast.
5 Heidekoenig Hotel Celle
(Hotel Heidekoenig), Bremer Weg 132A. Tel.: +49 5141 52031, fax: +49
5141 52689, e-mail: info@hotelcelle.de facebookinstagram. The family-run
Heidekönig Hotel Celle is a modern hotel near the old town of Celle.
Feature: ★★★. Open: 6:30am - 10pm (Mon-Fri), 7:30am - 10pm (Saturday)
and 7:30am - 12pm (Sunday). Check in: 3pm - 10pm. Check-out: Until 11
a.m. Accepted payment methods: Cash, EC card, Master, Visa, AMEX, Diners
etc. (52° 38′ 2″ N 10° 3′ 46″ E)
Middle
6 Hotel garni Am
Landgestut, Landgestutstr. 1, 29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 21 72 19.
Feature: Garni.
Upscale
7 Hotel Celler Hof, Stechbahn 11,
29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 91 19 60, fax: +49 51 41 91 19 644, e-mail:
info@cellerhof.de. Feature: ★★★. Price: Single room from €75, double
room from €115.
8 Ringhotel Celler Tor, Scheuener Strasse 2, 29229
Celle/ Gross Hehlen. Tel.: +49 51 41 59 00, fax: +49 51 41 59 04 90,
e-mail: Info@celler-tor.de. Well-kept hotel directly on the B3 in the
northern district of Groß Hehlen.
9 Althoff Hotel Fürstenhof Celle,
Hannoversche Strasse 55/56, 29221 Celle. Phone: +49 51 41 20 10, email:
info@fuerstenhof-celle.com. Price: Single room from €115, double room
from €160.
Adult education
Education center of the Volkshochschule Hustedt
e.V., Zur Jägerei 81, 29229 Celle. Phone: +49 50 86 98 970, fax: +49 50
86 98 97 77, email: info@hvhs-hustedt.de. The adult education center
offers educational leave seminars in the field of political
education/unions.
General Hospital (AKH) Celle, Siemensplatz 4, 29223 Celle. Phone: +49
51 41 720, +49 51 41 72 29 50 (emergency room), email:
info@akh-celle.de.
The current dental emergency service can be found
on this website.
The current pharmacy emergency service can be found
on the website of this pharmacy.
The veterinary emergency service for
any health problems of pets traveling with you can be found on the
website of this veterinary practice.
Tourist Information, Markt 14-16, 29221 Celle. Tel.: +49 51 41 12 12,
fax: +49 51 41 12 459, e-mail: info@celle-tourismus.de. Various
brochures are also available for download on the service pages,
including lists of hosts and restaurants, as well as a city center map
and a city map for people with disabilities. Open: May-Sept. Mon-Fri 9
a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sun 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Oct.-April
Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., Sun closed (except for
the Celle Christmas market).
Post office in the old town, Rundestr.
7, 29221 Celle. Open: Mon - Fri 8.30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sat 8.30 a.m. - 1
p.m.
The following municipalities border on the city of Celle. They are named clockwise starting in the north and all belong to the district of Celle: City of Bergen, Eschede, Beedenbostel and Lachendorf (both joint municipality of Lachendorf), Wienhausen (joint municipality of Flotwedel), Nienhagen and Adelheidsdorf (both joint municipality of Wathlingen), Hambühren and Winsen (Aller) .
Annual precipitation is 692 mm. It is in the middle third of the
values recorded in Germany. Lower values are registered at 39% of the
measuring stations of the German Weather Service. The driest month is
February, most precipitation falls in August, 1.5 times more than in
February. They are almost evenly distributed throughout the year. Lower
seasonal fluctuations are registered at only 1% of the measuring
stations.
The mean annual temperature is 8.9 °C. The warmest
months are July with an average of 17.5 °C and August with 17.1 °C and
the coldest January with 0.6 °C and February with 1.1 °C.
middle Ages
Celle was first mentioned in a document in 985 as
Kellu (“settlement on the river”). In the 11th century the city had the
right to mint coins. Some coins are included in the Sandur coin find in
the Faroe Islands. In 1292, Duke Otto II the Strict gave up Altencelle,
where there had already been a fortification in the form of the ring
wall of Burg in the 10th century. He founded a rectangular settlement 4
km northwest of the already existing Brunonenburg. In 1301 city rights
were granted. At the same time the construction of the town church
began.
In 1378, together with Duke Albrecht, Celle became the
residence of the Dukes of Saxony-Wittenberg. It is assumed that the city
fortifications of Celle with a city wall were built during this period.
From 1433 the princes of Lüneburg resided in Celle Castle. In 1453, Duke
Friedrich the Pious founded a Franciscan monastery outside the city
gates. On October 3, 1453, Pope Nicholas V approved the transfer of the
convent to the city. In 1464, the grain shipping monopoly enabled the
city to prosper economically.
16th to 18th centuries
In 1524
the Reformation was introduced in Celle by Duke Ernst I (the Confessor)
of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Celle was the first city after Wittenberg to
fully join the Reformation.
In 1570, his son Duke Wilhelm built
the palace chapel, which was inaugurated in 1585.
In 1660, Duke
Christian Ludwig von Celle erected a heron post with an inscription in
Altenhagen, which is reminiscent of the heron bait with noble falcons.
In 1660 there were 3750 inhabitants in Celle. From 1665 to 1705, Celle
experienced a cultural heyday as a residence under Duke Georg Wilhelm
with an expansion and conversion of the castle, which was still medieval
in character, into a four-wing baroque castle. Culturally influential
was Georg Wilhelm's French wife, Eleonore d'Olbreuse, who brought fellow
Huguenot believers and Italian master builders to Celle. During this
time, the French and Italian gardens were laid out and the baroque
palace theater was built. The Huguenots got their own church in 1700,
today one of the few surviving Huguenot churches in north-west Germany.
About 300 Huguenots settled in Celle, and quite a few worked in the
castle as cooks or servants, and some opened workshops in the city as
tailors, carpenters, glove makers or wig makers. They made French
fashion known in Celle and ensured a not inconsiderable economic boom in
the city. Since there was no space within the city walls for so many new
citizens, plans were made for an expansion of the city from 1680, which
was to extend west of the old town over an area of around 75 hectares
and a length of around 1.5 kilometres. In the decades that followed,
however, only a rudimentary construction of this "Westcell suburb" in
today's Neuenhäusen district in the area of today's Trift/Bahnhofstrasse
streets, with the right-angled cross streets Breite Strasse,
Hugenottenstrasse, Emigrantenstrasse and Jägerstrasse. Typical baroque
buildings of this period in the Westcell suburb are the court officials'
houses on Trift and Bahnhofstrasse; The castle-like layout of the
penitentiary based on plans by the chief court architect Johann Caspar
Borchmann (Trift 14, built from 1711, today Celle Prison) is outstanding
in terms of architectural history.
The last Duke of Celle, Georg
Wilhelm, died in 1705 and inherited the Principality of Lüneburg from
his brother Georg Ludwig (who later became King George I of England) in
Hanover. Celle now belonged to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In
the decades that followed, Celle was given three administrative
institutions to compensate for the loss of its status as a royal
residence: the Higher Court of Appeal, the penitentiary and the state
stud farm. This marked the beginning of the development into a city of
civil servants and lawyers. Even today, u. a. the state social court of
Lower Saxony-Bremen and the higher regional court responsible for most
of Lower Saxony are based in Celle. At the same time, there is a prison
in Celle (JVA Celle for short), whose Salinenmoor branch 11 km north of
the city center was closed in 2014. The fact that the citizens of Celle
at the beginning of the 18th century - faced with the choice - preferred
to bring prison to Celle rather than an offered university in order to
protect the innocence of their daughters cannot be proven, but it
persists as an anecdote in the vernacular.
In 1786 Albrecht Thaer
founded the first German agricultural research institute in the
Dammaschwiesen (today Thaer's garden). The Albrecht-Thaer School is now
part of a vocational training center in the Altenhagen district of
Celle.
19th to 20th centuries
In 1842 the Cambridge Dragoon
Barracks were built for the 1st Hanoverian Dragoon Regiment No. 9, named
after Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge. After expansion in 1913
and reconstruction after partial fire damage in 1936, the barracks were
renamed Goodwood Baracks in 1945 and from 1976 to 1996 were the
headquarters of the Bundeswehr's Panzer Brigade 33; it was renamed
Cambridge Dragoon Barracks in 1980. Since 1996, the site has been the
seat of one of the largest youth centers in Lower Saxony (CD Barracks).
From 1869 to 1872 the construction of the large infantry barracks
for Infantry Regiment No. 77 took place. In 1938 the barracks were
renamed Heidekaserne. After the Second World War, the barracks were used
by British troops, who left the site in 1993. Since 1999, the converted
monumental brick building has housed the new town hall with the Celle
city administration. Residential buildings were erected on the
surrounding open spaces and the parade ground and the city park was laid
out.
In 1892, with numerous donations from citizens, today's
Bomann Museum was founded with important collections of folklore and
town history. The 74 m high bell tower of the town church was built in
1913, and the bell tower was extensively renovated in 2008. During the
First World War there were two prisoner of war camps in or near Celle:
On the one hand, the "Cellelager" was set up in Scheuen, which was first
a troop camp and then an officer camp with up to 10,000 British, Serbs,
Russians, Belgians, French and Italians. A prison camp was set up in
Celle Castle, in which up to 300 "civilian prisoners of higher rank"
were interned. These were mainly students, merchants, industrialists and
artists of enemy nationality who lived in Germany or were passing
through when the war began, as well as public figures taken hostage in
the occupied territories of France and Belgium. The first military
cemeteries were built.
In 1928, the "Spinnhütte - Seidenspinnerei
und Weberei GmbH" was founded in the Hehlentor district, which four
years later merged with the Peiner Seidenspinnerei to form "Seidenwerk
Spinnhütte AG". By the end of the 1930s, the company had developed -
alongside the military facilities - into the largest company in Celle
with 670 employees. The shareholders of the stock corporation were
expropriated in the summer of 1936 after a conversion of outstanding
loans from the "Bank der Deutschen Luftfahrt", which belonged to the
sphere of influence of the Reich Ministry of Aviation, and a balance
sheet manipulation, and the assets of the stock corporation were
transferred to the "Mitteldeutsche Spinnhütte GmbH". The background to
this action was that the figures and data of the GmbH did not have to be
published and the production figures could therefore also be kept
secret. The main product of the Spinnhütte was parachute silk, which was
needed to equip the paratroops that had been set up since 1936. A small
number of civilian products were also manufactured. In 1937 the
Spinnhütte was awarded the title "National Socialist model company" and
in 1943 the title "War model company". As part of the expansion of
Mitteldeutsche Spinnhütte GmbH, branches were set up in Peine, Plauen,
Wanfried, Apolda, Osterode and Pirna. There were also companies in
Telgte and in Serbia during the war. The state social court of Lower
Saxony-Bremen is located in the headquarters of Mitteldeutsche
Spinnhütte GmbH, which was completed in 1940. Towards the end of the
war, experiments on uranium enrichment with the help of ultracentrifuges
took place in an annex to the spinning mill as part of the "uranium
association". This work was under the direction of the Hamburg physical
chemist Paul Harteck.
The Reich Institute for Silk Production was
established on Dörnbergstraße in 1938-1941 near the Spinnhütte in Celle.
In September 1929, Rudolph Karstadt opened a monumental Karstadt
department store on Poststraße in the middle of the half-timbered old
town, which had been newly built from 1927. The facade design was
similar to the Karstadt department store on Hermannplatz in Berlin. The
Karstadt branch in Celle was demolished in 1965 and replaced by a
controversial new department store that was even larger in terms of area
and designed by Walter Brune. In the opinion of the jury, the folded
facades with a grid structure that emerged from an architectural
competition chaired by Rudolf Hillebrecht represented a successful
formal adoption of Celle’s half-timbered structure.
Between 1924
and 1932, the Celle architect Otto Haesler built around a dozen
individual buildings and housing estates in the New Building style,
which received considerable national and international attention during
the Weimar Republic. These include the Italian Garden (1925),
Georgsgarten (1927) and Blumläger Feld (1930–31) housing estates, as
well as the Old Town School (1928), the Waack housing group (1928), the
rector’s house (1928) and the director’s house (1930).
time of
the nationalsocialism
The memorial book of the Federal Archives for
the victims of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany (1933-1945)
lists 39 Jewish residents of Celle who were deported and mostly
murdered. Yad Vashem's Central Database of Holocaust Victims (Beta)
names 31 Jewish citizens of Celle, of whom at least 27 were murdered.
The time of National Socialism in Celle is presented in detail in a
historical tour "Celle under National Socialism".
The stops on
this tour include:
the memorial in the Trift facility,
the
"Otto-Telschow-Haus",
the district office,
the residential and
commercial building of the von der Wall family,
the court prison as a
passage to the concentration or education camp,
the Julius Wexseler
textile shop,
the "brown house"
the Freidberg department store,
the town hall,
the higher regional court,
the hereditary health
supreme court,
the regional court of inheritance,
woman's house,
Robert Meyer – Hamburg wholesale warehouse,
menswear store Hasall,
shoe store salomon,
Manufactory and millinery Wolff,
Victor Roberg
manufactures and millinery,
Loewenstein shoe store,
Manufactory
store Hellmann,
German Labor Front office,
"Strength through Joy"
shop,
The Kohls family – “Jewish baptism”,
the local police
department,
jews in flower location,
Feingersch family,
synagogue
During the Reichspogromnacht from November 9th to 10th,
1938, a complete destruction of the synagogue was only refrained from
because there would have been a danger to an adjacent leather factory
and other parts of the historic old town.
During the Second World
War, the city of Celle suffered relatively little material damage
compared to other German cities. On February 22, 1945 and on April 8,
1945, the only two Allied air raids on Celle took place, in which the
station facilities were the target. The old town and castle remained
undestroyed.
During the second attack, several waiting trains,
which also contained around 4,000 concentration camp prisoners, were
badly hit and hundreds of people lost their lives. Some of the
concentration camp inmates from the trains managed to escape to nearby
Neustädter Holz, but SS guards and Celle citizens shot the majority of
the refugees in the two days that followed. The number of victims is
assumed to be at least 170 people. The Celle massacre, cynically called
"Celler's rabbit hunt" by the perpetrators, represents the darkest
chapter in Celle's city history.
A major destruction of the city
was prevented by the fact that the city was handed over to the Allied
troops on April 12, 1945 without resistance.
Military
The
tradition of Celle as a location for military facilities began during
the Hanoverian army in the mid-19th century with the construction of the
Cambridge Dragoon barracks (on the southern arterial road to Hanover,
Hannoversche Heerstraße) and the large infantry barracks for the 77th
Infantry Regiment (in the Wildgarten near the old town).
During
the Nazi era, parts of the 17th and 73rd Infantry Regiments and the 19th
Artillery Regiment were garrisoned in Celle. Celle was the seat of a
military district command and a military registration office. In 1934
the army airfield in Celle opened in what is now the district of
Wietzenbruch. In addition, Celle was the location of the Seeckt barracks
on the northern outskirts of the city, built in 1936-1939 with the army
gas protection school and the army's smoke thrower and decontamination
troops housed next door.
Celle retained its status as a garrison
town even after the Second World War. British troops moved into some
barracks. Other barracks (including the Freiherr-von-Fritsch-Barracks in
Scheuen and the Cambridge-Dragoner-Barracks in the city center) later
served as locations for the Bundeswehr Army's Panzerbrigade 33 "Celle".
The Celle Army Airfield (Immelmann barracks) in the Wietzenbruch
district is now the location of the TE900 Celle of the International
Helicopter Training Center in Bückeburg. From the 1990s, several
barracks were converted as part of the conversion. The former large
infantry barracks (Heidekaserne) house the new town hall, the former
Cambridge Dragoon barracks, etc. the youth and culture center CD Kaserne
and the Halle19 stage of the Schlosstheater Celle. Overall, Celle has
lost a large part of its function as a garrison town since the end of
the Cold War. However, the remaining military facilities still represent
a not insignificant economic factor for Celle.
After 67 years of
British military presence in Celle, the last unit with around 600
soldiers left in August 2012, the second battalion of the Royal Regiment
of Fusiliers. It was housed in the former von Seeckt barracks at Hohe
Wende (later Trenchard Barracks). The unit was transferred to Cyprus at
the Akrotiri and Dekelia bases.
The Garrison Museum Celle, which
is located on the Allerinsel in the last building of the demolished
former slaughterhouse, provides information about the history of the
Celle garrison.
On September 1, 2016, the City Council of Celle
decided to take over a sponsorship with the "Training and Exercise
Center for Air Mobility" (Ausb/ÜbZ Lbwglk) of the Army Aviation Weapons
School at the Wietzenbruch Army Air Base.
After 1945
After the
Second World War, Celle applied to be the seat of the Parliamentary
Council, along with Bonn and Frankfurt am Main and several other cities.
In the end, however, the choice fell on Bonn.
To prepare for the
start of color television based on the PAL system in the Federal
Republic of Germany in August 1967, Telefunken built a new factory for
the production of color television receivers in the Klein Hehlen
district of Celle from 1964, which went into operation in May 1966. In
the 1970s, the city's largest employer at the time employed up to 2,800
people. The Telefunken television factory belonged to the French group
Thomson-Brandt from 1984 and was closed in 1997. There is a shopping
center with a hardware store on the former factory premises on
Telefunkenstrasse.
On January 1, 1973, the city lost the status
of an independent city and thus became the largest municipality in the
district of Celle. At that time it was also the largest city in the
newly created administrative district of Lüneburg. The villages of
Ummmern, Pollhöfen and Hahnenhorn were annexed to the district of
Gifhorn. Since then, the parish of Hohne has looked after six villages
(Hohne, Helmerkamp, Spechtshorn, Ummern, Pollhöfen and Hahnenhorn) in
two districts. At the same time, a number of villages in the vicinity
were incorporated into the town of Celle.
On July 25, 1978, the
Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution carried out a
fake bomb attack on the outer wall of the prison. This event became
known as the Celler Loch.
In 2001, the city of Celle was honored
with the gold medal as the winner of the first national competition, Our
city is blooming.
In 2004 the government district of Lüneburg was
dissolved with all other government districts of Lower Saxony. Celle is
currently the twelfth largest city in Lower Saxony.
In 2017,
Celle was awarded the honorary title of "European City of Reformation"
by the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe.
incorporations
1869: Altenhäusen, Blumlage, Heese, Hehlentor,
Neuenhäusen, Neustadt and Wietzenbruch (in part)
1939: Klein Hehlen
1961: Vorwerk
1968: Boye
1973 (January 1): Altencelle, Altenhagen,
Bostel, Garßen, Groß Hehlen, Hustedt, Lachtehausen, Scheuen and large
parts of Westercelle
population development
In the Middle Ages
and early modern times, Celle had only a few thousand inhabitants. The
number of inhabitants grew only slowly and fell again and again due to
the numerous wars, epidemics and famines. Population growth only
accelerated with the start of industrialization in the 19th century. In
1818 only 8,800 people lived in the city, by 1900 there were already
20,000. Due to incorporations on April 1, 1939, there was a further
increase to 38,000 inhabitants.
Shortly after the Second World
War, the many refugees and expellees from the eastern German territories
led to an increase in the number of inhabitants by 17,000 to 55,000 in
December 1945. Incorporations on January 1, 1973 brought an increase
from 18,691 to 75,178 inhabitants, the historic high .
The census
on May 25, 1987 revealed a population of 71,222. On June 30, 1995, the
official number of inhabitants was 73,961 according to the update of the
Lower Saxony State Office for Statistics, on December 31, 2013 it was
68,508 and four years later 69,706 (in each case only main residences
and after comparison with the other state offices).
The following
overview shows the population according to the respective territorial
status. For 1818 it is an estimate, then census results (¹) or official
updates from the State Statistical Office. From 1871, the information
relates to the local population, from 1925 to the resident population
and since 1987 to the population at the main residence. Before 1871, the
number of inhabitants was determined according to inconsistent survey
procedures.
Celle is the seat of the Celle church district of the same name in
the Lüneburg district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. The
following Evangelical Lutheran churches are located in Celle:
Bonifatiuskirche (Klein Hehlen), Christuskirche (Westercelle), St.
Cyriacus (Groß Hehlen), St. Georg-Kirche (Blumlage), Gertrudenkirche
(Altencelle), Johanneskirche (Wietzenbruch), Kreuzkirche ( Neuenhäusen),
St. Mary's Church (Altstadt), St. Mark's Church (Garßen), the Matthew
Community Center (Vorwerk), the Neuenhäuser Church (Neuenhäusen),
Neustädter Kirche (Neustadt) and the Pauluskirche (Heese).
Catholic churches are St. Hedwig (Heese), St. John the Baptist (Vorwerk)
and St. Ludwig (Neuenhäusen). These are part of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Hildesheim.
Today's Evangelical-Reformed Church on
Hannoversche Strasse (Neuenhäusen) was built in 1700 for the Huguenots
who had fled France.
The Martin Luther Church on Hannoversche
Strasse (Neuenhäusen), built according to plans by the architect Fritz
Höger in 1921-1922, belongs to the Evangelical-Lutheran Concordia
congregation, a free church.
Other free churches within the
framework of the German Evangelical Alliance: Evangelical Free Church
Congregation (Baptists), Free Evangelical Congregation, Ecclesia
Christian Congregation (ECG), Christ Center, Seventh-Day Adventists,
Congregation in Succession.
A New Apostolic Church is located on
Jägerstrasse (Neuenhäusen).
The synagogue of the Jewish community
is located just outside the old town on Im Kreise square.
Since
2008, the "Centre of the Yazidis in Lower Saxony" has been in the
district of Scheuen. At the other end in the south of the city, in
Westercelle, is the Ezidische Kulturzentrum Celle. The number of Yazidis
living in Celle is estimated at the end of the 2010s at around 3000 and
thus more than 4% of the population.
The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) is located on the forest path
(Neuenhäusen).
A mosque is located on Kampstraße (Neustadt).