Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Hanover, Germany

The St. Martin's Church or St. Martin is the oldest Evangelical Lutheran church in Linden and parish church of St. Martin, now belonging to Hannover. Martins community. The church building is based on a first building dating from the 13th century and a baroque successor building from 1728, which was destroyed by the air attacks on Hanover in World War II, up to the church tower. The new nave was built in 1957 according to a design by the architect Dieter Oesterlen.

Wikipedia: St. Martin (Linden) (DE), Heritage Website

The Villa Stephanus is a villa built around 1865–70 for the brickworks owner Hermann Stephanus in what would later become the Hanoverian district of Linden-Mitte, Davenstedter Straße 4. It predates the founding of the Linden Market, which has been held here since 1896, and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Villa Stephanus (1870) (DE)

The Lindener Butjer is a sculpture of a so-called Butjer by the German sculptor Ulrike Enders. Since April 2022, it has been located in a public space along the Stephanusstraße in the Linden-Limmer borough of Hanover.

Wikipedia: Lindener Butjer (EN)

Villa Stephanus is a listed villa in Gartenallee in Hannover-Linden, Germany. It was built in 1900/1901 for the brickworks owner Richard Stephanus and is adjacent to the older Villa Stephanus by Hermann Stephanus at the rear.

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The TAK, also known as Theater am Küchengarten, is a small cabaret stage with 130 seats in Hanover's Linden-Mitte district. It presents satire, cabaret, chansons and sophisticated nonsense at around 170 performances per season. The TAK is the only professionally operated facility of its kind in Lower Saxony.

Wikipedia: TAK (Kabarettbühne) (DE), Website

The memorial to commemorate Jewish life in Ohestraße in Hanover was designed by students from the local vocational school center. It commemorates the crimes committed during the Nazi era to destroy Jewish life in Hanover. The memorial, which was erected on the site of the former "Jewish Education Center", is located at Ohestraße 8 near Waterlooplatz and the Ihme in the Calenberger Neustadt district.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal zur Erinnerung an jüdisches Leben in der Ohestraße (DE)

The Reformed Church is a Protestant Reformed church in the Calenberger Neustadt district of Hanover, Germany. The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church.

Wikipedia: Reformierte Kirche (Hannover) (DE), Heritage Website

The Church of the Friederikenstift is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt. It is located in the old north wing of the Friederikenstift hospital at Humboldtstraße 5.

Wikipedia: Kirche des Friederikenstiftes (DE)

The Evangelical Lutheran Neustadt Court and City Church of St. Johannis in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt is the oldest Lower Saxon example of the Protestant spatial ideal of a hall church. The church is the preaching church of the state superintendent for the district of Hanover. It is located on the Neustädter Markt, on the so-called Street of Tolerance.

Wikipedia: Neustädter Kirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Neustädter-Markt-Brunnen fountain in Hanover was created in 1973/74 by Max Sauk. The complex in the centre of the Neustädter Markt, also known as the "Table Fountain", was privately initiated and donated. It is located in front of the entrance to the Neustadt Church.

Wikipedia: Neustädter-Markt-Brunnen (DE)

Broyhan House is a residential and commercial building constructed in 1576 in Hanover's historic old town. It is the second-oldest preserved half-timbered building in Hanover, and stands on the cellar walls of an earlier building dating to the 14th century. The house is named after Cord Broyhan, a brewer who lived in an earlier building from 1537 until 1561.

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The Market Church is the main Lutheran church in Hanover, Germany. Built in the 14th century, it was referred to in 1342 as the church of Saints James and George in dedication to Saint James the Elder and Saint George. Replacing an older, smaller, church at the same location that dated to 1125 and that is known to have been called St. Georgii in 1238, Hanover grew around it and the market place situated immediately adjacent to its south that was established around the same time. Today the official name of the church is Market Church of Saints George and James, and along with the nearby Old Town Hall is considered the southernmost example of the northern German brick gothic architectural style.

Wikipedia: Marktkirche, Hanover (EN), Website, Heritage Website

The Old Town Hall is a former, and the first, town hall in Hanover, Germany. Originally built in the old city district in 1410, replaced by the New Town Hall in 1913, and extensively restored in 1953 and 1964 after heavy bomb damage in World War II, it is the oldest secular building in the city. The market façade with the highly sophisticated Brick Gothic of the lucarnes has been preserved and partly restored in its medieval shape. Some elements of it were copied on other wings of the building.

Wikipedia: Old Town Hall (Hanover) (EN)

The monument of the Göttinger Sieben in Hanover is reminiscent of an important event of German constitutional history. It honors seven personalities from the 19th century Lower Saxony history, the so -called Göttinger Sieben.

Wikipedia: Denkmal der Göttinger Sieben (Hannover) (DE)

Wangenheim Palace is a building in the Mitte district of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. From 1863 to 1913, it was the town hall and seat of the city's administration. Today it is the seat of the Lower Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs.

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The Städtische Galerie KUBUS is a gallery on Theodor-Lessing-Platz in Hanover, Germany.

Wikipedia: Städtische Galerie KUBUS (DE), Website

The Neues Theater, abbreviated nt, is a privately operated theater in the city center of Hanover, Germany. It has been located in Georgstraße since 1964. It was founded on 16 May 1962 by James von Berlepsch as a small theatre and, according to its own statement, operates unsubsidized. Under its founder, it rose to become Hanover's best-known boulevard theatre. Today, the theatre is owned by the second generation and has been run by his son since the death of James von Berlepsch in 2008. The theatre's bar is a meeting place for the Hanoverian theatre scene. Since 1974 there has been a support association and a circle of subscribers to the theatre.

Wikipedia: Neues Theater (Hannover) (DE), Website

The House of Basse in Hanover, also known as Bankhaus Basse or Bassebank, was a private bank founded in the 19th century. The location of the bank, also known simply as "Bankhaus Wilhelm Basse", is now a listed building, and at the same time the oldest surviving building directly on Georgstraße, is Georgstraße 54 in Hanover's Mitte district.

Wikipedia: Haus Basse (DE)

The Leibniz monument in Hanover is a memorial to appreciate the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his scientific work, especially the binary number system. The monument designed by the artist Stefan Schwerdtfeger in the form of a silhouette cut is a gift to the citizens of the state capital of Lower Saxony. In 2008 the sculpture and the associated information boards were set up in the center of the city on Georgstrasse, at the southern tip of the opera square in the middle of the middle and at the northern edge of Georgsplatz.

Wikipedia: Leibniz-Denkmal (Hannover) (DE)

The Garden Cemetery is a cemetery in Hanover, Germany. It was created in 1741 and is located by the Garden Church built in 1749. The cemetery and the church are both named after the garden parish outside the former parish city walls in front of Aegidien Gate. The cemetery, which contains a number of classicising grave markers from the first half of the nineteenth century, was closed in 1864 with the establishment of the Stadtfriedhof Engesohde. Today it forms a park in the middle of inner city Hanover. The graves of Charlotte Buff, the astronomer Caroline Herschel and the painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg are located here. The Gartenfriedhof lies on Marienstraße between Warmbüchenstraße and Arnswaldtstraße.

Wikipedia: Gartenfriedhof (EN)