Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Hanover, Germany

St. Nicholas' Chapel is an architectural heritage monument and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany. First built as a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas between 1250 and 1284 and a choir dating to 1325, it was damaged severely during the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II. In 1953 the then approximately 700-year-old chapel was largely torn down to make way for a road as part of a larger post-war city-wide strategy to accommodate cars, with the currently 699-year-old choir left standing as a monument.

Wikipedia: St. Nicholas' Chapel, Hanover (EN)

The Goseriedebad was an indoor swimming pool in Hanover, Germany, which opened in 1905 and closed in 1982 and is named after its location on the street Goseriede near Steintorplatz. After renovations in the 1980s and 1990s, the former indoor swimming pool is now used by the Kunstverein Kestnergesellschaft and the private radio station radio ffn.

Wikipedia: Goseriedebad (DE), Website

The Anzeiger high-rise in Hanover was built in 1927–1928 in the style of brick expressionism according to a design by Fritz Höger as the publishing house of the Hannoversche Anzeiger and was one of the first high-rise buildings in the German Reich. The 51-metre-high building with ten storeys is located in the Mitte district near Steintor-Platz and, with its characteristic roof dome, has a high recognition value in the capital of Lower Saxony.

Wikipedia: Anzeiger-Hochhaus (DE), Heritage Website

BUSSTOPS in Hanover is an art project with originally twelve half-open bus shelters for trams and city buses of the üstra. It was part of a project on art in public space between 1990 and 1994 and was created on the initiative of the Lower Saxony Foundation in cooperation with üstra and Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen. The design project was carried out by internationally renowned architects and designers. The task for the artists was to create art as an extraordinary part of an ordinary service.

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The Gänseliesel Fountain in Hanover was created in 1897 or 1898 by Carl Dopmeyer and was located on the northeastern edge of Steintorplatz until August 2024.

Wikipedia: Gänseliesel-Brunnen (Hannover) (DE)

The Schiller Monument in Hanover stands in the pedestrian zone of Georgstraße at the junction of Schillerstraße in the Mitte district. The statue honors the poet Friedrich Schiller and is a listed building. Its history goes back to the Kingdom of Hanover.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (Hannover) (DE)

The Dragon Slayer House in Hanover is a commercial building built between 1900 and 1901 at Georgstraße 10 at the level of the Schiller Monument. The heritage-listed, richly decorated sandstone façade of the house is best known for the figure of Saint George as a dragon slayer, carved almost three-dimensionally by Werner Hantelmann above the Georgspassage.

Wikipedia: Drachentöterhaus (DE)

The sculpture Bogside '69 in Hanover was created by the sculptor Hans-Jürgen Breuste on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Amnesty International in 1981.

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The Schmiedestraße multi-storey car park is a multi-storey car park in the old town of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located at Schmiedestraße 13 in the Hanover district of Mitte. The multi-storey car park with 564 parking spaces is the oldest multi-storey car park in Hanover and is a listed building. Located on the corner of Corvinusweg, the multi-storey car park stands on the historic site of the original Leibnizhaus.

Wikipedia: Parkhaus Schmiedestraße (Hannover) (DE)

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 Spittahaus in Hanover is a half-timbered house originally built in the 17th century, in which the hymn poet Karl Johann Philipp Spitta later spent his youth. The location of today's listed semi-detached house, which is used as a theatre restaurant and for offices, is Burgstraße 23 and 23a at the corner of Ballhofplatz in Hanover's old town as part of the Mitte district.

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The Ballhof is a theatre on Ballhofplatz in the old town of Hanover, which belongs to the Lower Saxony State Theatre in Hanover.

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The Ballhofbrunnen in Hanover is a fountain system installed in the mid-1970s as art in public space on Ballhofplatz in Hanover's old town.

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The Church of the Holy Cross is a Lutheran church in the centre of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. A Gothic hall church, it is one of three churches in Hanover's old town – the other two being Market Church and Aegidien Church, although the latter is now a war memorial.

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

The Martin-Neuffer-Brücke, until 2010 Marstallbrücke, in Hanover leads from the high bank of the old town to the opposite bank of the Leibnizufer. The current bridge, which is a listed building, was built in 1736/37 according to a design by Johann Paul Heumann and was named in December 2010 after the former Hanoverian mayor Martin Neuffer.

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The Goethe Bridge in Hanover leads over the Leine in the course of Goethestraße.

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St. Clement's Basilica is the main Roman Catholic church in the city of Hanover. It is dedicated to Saint Clement of Rome. It is part of the parish of St. Heinrich and belongs to the Diocese of Hildesheim.

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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 example in Lower Saxony 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 Fürstenhof is a historic building in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt. Today it houses offices of the Hanover Regional Church Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.

Wikipedia: Fürstenhof (Hannover) (DE)

The Beguinage Tower is a listed fortified tower on the Hoher Ufer in Hanover, Germany. The tower was first mentioned in 1357 as "De nye Torn" and was part of the city fortifications of Hanover. It was originally built in the Garden of the Beguines.

Wikipedia: Beginenturm (Hannover) (DE)

The Holzmarkt fountain in front of today's Leibnizhaus on the Holzmarkt in Hanover is a listed work by various artists.

Wikipedia: Holzmarktbrunnen (Hannover) (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.

Wikipedia: Broyhan House (EN)

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 Hase Fountain, also known as the Market Fountain, is a fountain donated in the last quarter of the 19th century by the citizens of the city of Hanover. According to the foundation deed, 113 donors participated in the financing of the building, which was intended to enrich the historic market square as an ornamental fountain and also serve as a monument: Since then, the complex has been reminiscent of the Old Town Hall, which was restored by the architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase, which Hase later expanded in medieval building forms towards Karmarschstraße.

Wikipedia: Hase-Brunnen (Hannover) (DE)

Playing children is the name of the fountain with the plastic of two children in Grupenstrasse in Hanover. The sculptor Kurt Lehmann already took his own two children in the "horizontal game" to present his sculpture in the 1940s.

Wikipedia: Spielende Kinder (Hannover) (DE)

The Seilwinderhaus in Hanover is an office and commercial building built at the beginning of the 20th century, whose restoration of the façade in accordance with the requirements of the monument was awarded the prize for monument preservation by the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation. The location is Seilwinderstraße 4 and 5 in the old town of Hanover within sight of the Marktkirche in today's Mitte district.

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The Blätterbrunnen in Hanover is located near the Kröpcke on the corner of Karmarschstraße and Ständehausstraße. It was created by the German sculptor of Informal Art Emil Cimiotti.

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The Georgspalast, abbreviated GOP, in Hanover is a traditional variety theatre that has existed since the beginning of the 20th century. It is centrally located in the city centre in a striking, five-storey stone building opposite the Hanover Opera House.

Wikipedia: GOP Varieté-Theater Hannover (DE), Website

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Hanover is located in Hanover, Germany, on Opernplatz, one of the city's central squares. It was designed by the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto and erected in 1994 on the initiative of the Memoriam Association and financed through individual donations. The memorial is adjacent to Hanover's Opera House and commemorates the more than 6,800 Jews of Hanover who were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. To date, 1,935 names have been carved in stone. Their age at the time of deportation was added to the names of the deportees, for the other victims the birth year was added. As far as is known, the subsequent fate of each individual victim was recorded. If the place of death could not be determined, "missing" was noted, as was customary elsewhere.

Wikipedia: Memorial to the murdered Jews of Hanover (EN)

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, which is also simply referred to as "Bankhaus Wilhelm Basse" and is also the oldest surviving building directly on Georgstraße, is Georgstraße 54 in the Hanover district of Mitte.

Wikipedia: Haus Basse (DE)

The Neues Theater, abbreviated nt, is a privately operated theater in the city center of Hanover, Germany. It has held its current headquarters in Georgstraße since 1964. It was founded on May 16, 1962 by James von Berlepsch as a small theater and, according to its own statement, operates unsubsidized. Under its founder, it rose to become the most famous Hanoverian 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 Hanover's 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 Leibniz Monument in Hanover is a monument to the polymath 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, is a gift to the citizens of the state capital of Lower Saxony. In 2008, the sculpture and the associated information boards were erected in the centre of the city on Georgstraße, at the southern tip of Opernplatz in the Mitte district and on the northern edge of Georgsplatz.

Wikipedia: Leibniz-Denkmal (Hannover) (DE)

The Kunstverein Hannover e. V. is an art association that has its headquarters in the Künstlerhaus in Hanover. The association organises five to six exhibitions of contemporary art every year.

Wikipedia: Kunstverein Hannover (DE), Website

The Dr. Buhmann Schule gGmbH in Hanover is a vocational school with the core competencies of business, management and languages. The educational institution for young people and adults offers basic training for young professionals as well as further training. The headquarters of the non-profit GmbH is Prinzenstraße 13 in Hanover-Mitte in a listed building. It was founded by Friedrich Buhmann in 1907.

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The Künstlerhaus Hannover is a listed building in Hanover, Germany. It is located in the Mitte district near the opera house and is home to several institutions from the cultural sector.

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Hanover Drama is a theatre company in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The company is resident at the Hanover Playhouse situated approximately 200 metres (660 ft) east of Hanover Opera House, and the Ballyard situated approximately 530 metres (1,740 ft) west-southwest of the opera house in the old town. Collectively these venues have five stages:Large stage Cumberland stage Cumberland gallery Ballyard One Ballyard Two

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The Hanover Theatre Museum offers its visitors a permanent exhibition on the theatre history of the capital of Lower Saxony. The location is Prinzenstraße 9 in Hanover, access is through the entrance hall of the Schauspielhaus.

Wikipedia: Theatermuseum Hannover (DE)

The Hanover Opera House is the venue for the opera, ballet and concert divisions of the Lower Saxony State Theatres in Hanover. The orchestra of the opera house is the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover.

Wikipedia: Opernhaus Hannover (DE), Heritage Website

The Kröpcke Clock in Hanover is one of the traditional meeting places in the city. As one of the landmarks of the capital of Lower Saxony, the clock now also serves as a showcase for changing art exhibitions and presentations. The Kröpcke is located as a "square-like extension" in the pedestrian zone in front of Café Kröpcke at the intersection of Georgstraße with Bahnhofstraße and Karmarschstraße as well as Rathenaustraße in the Mitte district.

Wikipedia: Kröpcke-Uhr (DE)

The Magis department store in Hanover is a listed fashion and textile department store from the 1950s. The department store is located on Kröpcke. Its address is Georgstraße 31/33, corner of Bahnhofstraße.

Wikipedia: Kaufhaus Magis (Hannover) (DE)

The Ernst August Monument is an equestrian statue in honour of the sovereign of the former Kingdom of Hanover, King Ernst August. It was created in 1861 by Albert Wolff and erected on Ernst-August-Platz in front of Hanover's main railway station. The monument is one of the most important meeting places in Hanover, along with the Kröpcke clock, which is commonly referred to as "Unterm Schwanz".

Wikipedia: Ernst-August-Denkmal (DE), Website

The HAZ fountain in Hanover is a fountain in two parts donated by the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on Ernst-August-Platz in front of the city's main train station.

Wikipedia: HAZ-Brunnen (DE)