Culture and points of interest

• The Church of St Boniface (Bonifatiuskirche) was built in 1657 as a cemetery chapel on the hill of Harburger Berg. In the meantime, from 1758 to 1902, it was used as a garrison church. 300 years after it was built the timber-framed building was moved in 1957 to its present site. The pulpit, donated by Duke Christian Louis
  Christian Louis, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  Christian Louis was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A member of the House of Welf, from 1641 until 1648 he ruled the Principality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, and, from 1648, until his death the Principality of Lüneburg....
  
  , dates to the year 1659; the altar came from Großburgwedel
  Großburgwedel
  Großburgwedel is a village northeast of Hanover and is the administrative centre of the town of Burgwedel.Großburgwedel is home to the town hall of Burgwedel and other town institutions such as the library, a hospital for the region of Hanover...
  
   and dates to 1690.
• The (since reduced) collection of books in the former court library founded in the 16th century by Ernest the Confessor, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was merged with the 40,000 books in the library of the Celle-Klein Hehlen theological seminary. This public, religious, academic specialist library offers today a collection of 62,000 books, which are accessible free to those who are interested.

Economy and infrastructure

• The state firefighting school in Celle was founded in 1931 and is located in Klein Hehlen. The present-day Lower Saxon State Firefighting School (Niedersächsische Landesfeuerwehrschule has a capacity of 160 student places and is a public-law institution with initial and continuation training for members of the volunteer and professional fire services.
• Opposite the firefighting school is the Celle Road Maintenance Office which carries out road inspections and maintenance as well as winter services for the district of Celle.

External links

• The official website of the town of Celle