Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #12 in Hanover, Germany

The Christuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hanover, Germany. It is located in the Nordstadt district northwest of Klagesmarkt and was built between 1859 and 1864 by Conrad Wilhelm Hase as the residence church of George V. The neo-Gothic brick building is the first new church building in Hanover after 1747 and a model church according to the Eisenach Regulation, a recommendation issued in 1861 for the design of Protestant church buildings, which lasted until 1890. As a residential church, the Christuskirche was only used once. However, there is still contact with the former Hanoverian royal family through the patronage of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Hannover) (DE), Heritage Website

The Theodor Lessing House in Hanover is a building of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover. Among other things, the listed building houses the Social Sciences Library (FBS) as part of the University Library. The location is the Welfengarten 2C in the Nordstadt district.

Wikipedia: Theodor-Lessing-Haus (DE)

The list of monuments in Hanover contains a number of selected monuments, memorials, sculptures, artistic objects of sculpture ("street art") and fountains in public space, especially in the area of the city center of Hanover. These objects are not congruent with (cultural) monuments within the meaning of the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act.

Wikipedia: Liste von Denkmälern in Hannover (DE)

The Welfengarten in the Nordstadt district of Hanover is a city park in the style of English landscape gardens. Together with the Great Garden, the Berggarten and the Georgengarten, it is part of the Herrenhausen Gardens.

Wikipedia: Welfengarten (DE)

The Helmcke Monument in Hanover honours the master baker and grain merchant Johann Gerhard Helmcke (1750–1824), who saved Herrenhausen Allee in the Georgengarten from deforestation at the beginning of the 19th century. The location of the monument is Nienburger Straße in the Georgengarten at the level of Schneiderberg Street at the corner of the Franziusinstitut.

Wikipedia: Helmcke-Denkmal (DE)

The Wilhelm Busch Museum is a museum in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It features the world's largest collection of works by Wilhelm Busch, as well as contemporary comic art, illustrations and drawings.

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The St. George's Stone in Hanover and the associated St. George's Oaks in the Georgengarten date back to the time of the Kingdom of Hanover. The trees with the memorial stone were planted in 1839 on the 20th birthday of the heir to the throne, George of Hanover, on the western edge of the lawn oval in front of the Georgenpalais.

Wikipedia: Georgseichen (Hannover) (DE)

The large garden in the Hanover district of Herrenhausen is one of the most important baroque gardens in Europe. The garden area enclosed by a graft is the historic core of the Herrenhausen gardens, which also includes the mountain garden, the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten. The rectangular system has an area of 50.2 hectares. The starting point of the planning was the Herrenhausen Castle built in the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Großer Garten (Hannover) (DE), Heritage Website

Water art in Hannover-Herrenhausen is a historical system for the promotion, lifting and guidance of water, which was designed to provide water with the necessary pressure in the required quantity for the operation of the Great Fountain in the Great Garden.

Wikipedia: Wasserkunst Herrenhausen (DE)

The Limmer Cemetery in Hanover is a cemetery complex in the 19th century in the Limmer district of Hanover, Germany. The small, 0.89-hectare green space is located outside the old village on Harenberger Strasse, not far from the Linden harbour lock.

Wikipedia: Stadtteilfriedhof Limmer alt (DE)

The district cemetery Fössefeld in Hannover, also called the city cemetery Fössefeld or garrison cemetery, is a former military cemetery built in the 19th century, which was also used by the local population of the (today) Hannover district of Limmer for burial their relatives. The site of the listed cemetery plant with its area of approximately 1.3 hectares and numerous warrior graves and honour paintings is the Friedhofstraße Ecke Limmerstraße between the branch of Wunstorfer Straße and the Bach Fösse.

Wikipedia: Stadtteilfriedhof Fössefeld (DE)

St. Benno is a Roman Catholic church in the Linden-Nord district of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the parish of St. Godehard and the deanery of Hanover of the Diocese of Hildesheim. The church was built in 1901/02 according to plans by Christoph Hehl and consecrated on 28 October 1906 by Bishop Adolf Bertram. During the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War, the left aisle was destroyed by a bomb hit on 18 October 1943 and the church and rectory were again damaged on 17 March 1945. Even during the war, the damage was repaired in a makeshift manner. In the summer of 1951, a largely faithful restoration of the church began, which was completed on October 26, 1952.

Wikipedia: St. Benno (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Gerhard -uhlhorn Church is a former Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hanover district of Linden-Nord. The building is now used as a student dormitory.

Wikipedia: Gerhard-Uhlhorn-Kirche (DE)