Salzgitter-Ringelheim

Ringelheim
Quarter of Salzgitter
Castle Ringelheim, Salzgitter, Germany
Coat of arms
Ringelheim
Location of Ringelheim in Salzgitter
Coordinates: 52°02′09″N 10°18′27″E / 52.03583°N 10.30750°E / 52.03583; 10.30750Coordinates: 52°02′09″N 10°18′27″E / 52.03583°N 10.30750°E / 52.03583; 10.30750
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Urban district
City	Salzgitter
Population
• Total	1,951
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Vehicle registration	SZ

Ringelheim with 1,951 inhabitants is the sixth biggest quarter of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony, Germany, located on the Innerste River at the very far south-western end of the urban area. The Salzgitter-Ringelheim train station is the most important station of the city, as the Brunswick Southern Railway and the line from Hildesheim to Goslar cross here.

The settlement arose in the Eastphalian Salzgau region of the medieval Duchy of Saxony; the Immedinger relatives of duchess consort Matilda, wife of Henry the Fowler, founded a nunnery here as a proprietary monastery about 940. The convent was re-established as a Benedictine friary subordinate to the Bishopric of Hildesheim in 1152.

Upon the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud, Prince-bishop John of Saxe-Lauenburg had to cede Ringelheim to the neighbouring Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel in 1523. With the accession of Duke Julius it turned Protestant in 1568. During the Thirty Years' War, Imperial and Catholic troops tried to reconquer the former Hildesheim estates and defeated a Protestant army under King Christian IV of Denmark at the nearby Battle of Lutter in 1626. Duke Augustus the Younger of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel finally restored Ringelheim to Hildesheim in 1641.