Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #10 in Hanover, Germany
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8.3 km
97 m
Explore Hanover in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in HanoverIndividual Sights in HanoverSight 1: Bethlehemskirche
The Bethlehem Chapel in Hanover was built at the end of the 19th century and is now a listed building in Hanover's Südstadt. Built in 1887, the building at Große Barlinge 35 is set back from the street alignment. The congregation was founded in 1885 and belongs to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Wikipedia: Bethlehemkapelle (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube
Sight 2: Nazarethkirche
The Nazarethkirche is one of two churches in the Evangelical Lutheran South City of Church in the southern part of Hanover.
Wikipedia: Nazarethkirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 3: Pauluskirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Pauluskirche in Hanover is a listed church building in the Südstadt district. It is located on the crossroads Meterstrasse / Bürgermeister-Fink-Straße.
Sight 4: Sprengel Museum
Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake approximately 150 metres (490 ft) south of the state museum. The museum opened in 1979, and the building, designed by Peter and Ursula Trint and Dieter Quast, was extended in 1992.
Sight 5: Ehrenfriedhof am Maschsee-Nordufer
The Cemetery of Honour on the north shore of the Maschsee in Hanover is a listed cemetery established in 1945 in honour of a total of 526 prisoners of war and concentration camp prisoners of various nationalities, including 154 citizens of the former Soviet Union, who were murdered on 6 April 1945 by members of the Gestapo headquarters in Hanover. While these crimes committed by the Nazis at the end of the war were intended to cover up injustice and cruelty, the construction of the cemetery of honour on Arthur-Menge-Ufer on the northern shore of the Maschsee was deliberately chosen as a central inner-city location behind the New Town Hall for commemoration.
Sight 6: Julius Trip
The Trip fountain near Culemannstraße in Hanover's Maschpark is now a monument to the city's horticultural director Julius Trip. As a symbol of artistic horticulture, the four figures, two female and two male, carved from shell limestone, stand at the same time as allegories for trees, bushes, meadows and flowers.
Sight 7: Maschpark
Maschpark in Hanover's Mitte district is a 10-hectare park south of the old town. It was built around 1900 and was the first municipal park in Hanover. The complex has not changed its original form and is a testimony to German garden art at the end of the 19th century. To the north, the Maschpark is bordered by the Friedrichswall. Between Maschteich and Friedrichswall, the New Town Hall was completed in 1913.
Sight 8: Klaus-Bahlsen-Brunnen
The Klaus Bahlsen Fountain is located on Trammplatz in front of the New Town Hall in Hanover. It was designed by Ludger Gerdes in 1996. It is a gift from the Rut and Klaus Bahlsen Foundation to the city.
Sight 9: Theater am Aegi
The Theater am Aegi is an event venue on Aegidientorplatz square in Hannover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Like the square, it is often referred to as Aegi. The building was opened in 1953 mainly as a cinema, with a versatile stage also for other performances. It has been a Gastspieltheater for local and touring companies, without its own personnel. After a fire, it was rebuilt as a theatre only, opened in 1967, and then mainly as a venue for drama performances of the state-run Staatstheater Hannover. After a new theatre was built for that company in 1992, Theater am Aegi returned to its traditional role of a venue for various events, including congress, private functions and representation of the city.
Sight 10: Wunder-Haus
The Wunder-Haus is a residential and commercial building built in the 19th century at Friedrichswall 17 opposite the New Town Hall in Hanover. It is a listed building and is named after its client, the photographer Karl Friedrich Wunder.
Sight 11: Sieltürmchen
The Sielturmchen in Hanover is the only visible remnant of the hydraulic engineering facilities of the former city fortifications of Hanover as a sluice marker with its approximately 20-metre-long water pipe. The location of the listed complex from the 16th century is Culemannstraße on the west bank of the Leine at the southern end of the bridge to Friedrichswall.
Sight 12: Waterlooplatz
Waterlooplatz in Hanover is a four-hectare lawn in the Calenberger Neustadt district. On the square stands the Waterloo Column. The square and column were built in the 19th century to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. While the square originally surrounded a barracks area when it was built in the first half of the 19th century, it is now located in the middle of the government and administrative district of the capital of Lower Saxony.
Sight 13: Von-Alten-Garten
The Von-Alten-Garten is a 7.5-hectare public park in Hanover, Germany, located in the Linden-Mitte district. It is located at the foot of the Lindener Berg, directly on the Westschnellweg.
Sight 14: Bunker am Deisterplatz
The bunker at Deisterplatz in Hanover is the only one of around 50 air-raid shelters built in Hanover during the Second World War to be listed as a historical monument. It was built in the early 1940s as a round bunker on what was then the border of the Von-Alten-Park and within sight of the Hanomag. Today it is located in the middle of the busy Deisterplatz roundabout in Linden.
Sight 15: Der Sport
The glass mosaic sport of the visual artist Eduard Bargheer was made in the workshops in August Wagner in Berlin from 1962 to 1963, on the north wall of a small gym, which was then part of the Lower Saxony Stadium in Hanover, was attached to the gas concrete wall and public on June 25, 1963 recognized. Plans for the demolition of the gym on the occasion of the conversion of the stadium have questioned the continued existence of the glass mosaic since 1998. After the glass mosaic was listed in 2003, it was removed from 2005 to 2006 before the gymnasium was demolished and received a new place on the stadium forecourt at the south entrance (Ferdinand-Wilhelm-Fricke-Weg) on a newly created angle support. On April 27, 2006, the Mayor of Hanover Herbert Schmalstieg made the ceremonial public approval of the Glassmosaic Sport at his new location in good time before the 2006 football World Championship in 2006. The glass mosaic has a glass area of almost 200 m² and is one of the most important works of building -bound art in Germany.
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