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Handschuhsheim, Heidelberg — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Handschuhsheim is one of Heidelberg's districts, covering some fifteen square kilometres and keeping the Friedenskirche as its named landmark.
About Handschuhsheim
Where to stay in Handschuhsheim
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Handschuhsheim is a residential Heidelberg address, and the fifteen square kilometres it covers leave room for streets that have nothing to do with hotels and everything to do with the households living along them. The Friedenskirche is the fixed point. Guests after a real choice of rooms book in Heidelberg proper and travel out, and you would take a bed here only for quiet ground that the city centre cannot match.
About Handschuhsheim
What are the main landmarks in Handschuhsheim?
A church is all that made the list. The Friedenskirche is the only named landmark entered for Handschuhsheim, which puts the whole of the district's sightseeing weight on a parish building rather than on a museum or a monument. Heidelberg keeps the rest.
A visitor gets a short circuit out here and a much longer one back inside the city.
What is the history of Handschuhsheim?
Heidelberg's records give Handschuhsheim no start year. What Handschuhsheim brings into Heidelberg's register is a name, a broad stretch of ground, and the Friedenskirche, with no charter date attached to any of the three in the sources gathered here. The parish supplies the anchor.
Past that church, the district's story sits inside the wider account of Heidelberg and of Baden-Württemberg rather than in entries of its own.
Where is Handschuhsheim?
Spread wide for a district, Handschuhsheim takes in roughly fifteen square kilometres of Heidelberg, in Baden-Württemberg.
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Updated August 2026