Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Hanover, Germany
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11.2 km
91 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: Brückenbastion
The bridge bastion in Hanover is a monument designed by the architect and sculptor Stefan Schwerdtfeger. The "Bastion", built in 1981, also forms a bridge for pedestrians from the Prinzengarten or from the Welfengarten via Schneiderberg Street to the main canteen of the University of Hanover with building number 3110.
Sight 2: Welfengarten
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.
Sight 3: Lutherkirche
The Luther Church in Hannover is a Protestant church, which has been used as a youth church since 2006. The building was built in 1895–1898 as the last of the three large northern towns of the church buildings by Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand on an almost triangular building plot in the center of the northern city. With its two powerful tower helmets, surrounded by several lateral helmets, the church offered an impressive sight until shortly before the end of the war, which is still a little reminded of today.
Wikipedia: Lutherkirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 4: Gudrun-Pausewang-Platz
Gudrun-Pausewang-Platz in Hanover, formerly known as Continentalplatz, is a square built at the beginning of the 20th century in front of the industrial complex of the Continental-Caoutchouk- and Gutta-Percha-Compagnie, later Continental AG, in the Hanover district of Vahrenwald. The square, which was laid out in 1911 as a public space, was created in the triangle of the traffic routes Grenzweg, Philipsbornstraße and Ritterstraße. It is now equipped with a playground and was named after children's book author Gudrun Pausewang in 2021.
Sight 5: TCH
The House of Economic Development in Hanover is home to all the economic departments of the city and the region of Hanover, which in a broader sense deal with the economic development and marketing of existing or to be founded companies as well as the region itself. "Under one roof", citizens will find in particular the funding and advisory services of the service providers Hannover Marketing Tourismus (HMTG), Hannover Region Tourismus, hannover.de Internet GmbH and hannoverimpuls. The house is located at Vahrenwalder Straße 7 in the Vahrenwald district.
Wikipedia: Haus der Wirtschaftsförderung (Region Hannover) (DE)
Sight 6: Lukaskirche
The Lukaskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover-Vahrenwald.
Sight 7: WOK - World of Kitchen
The WOK - World of Kitchen Küchenmuseum in Hanover is the first large museum for kitchens in Europe. It was opened on April 15, 2010 in the company building of the former large printing company Fehling in the List district. The museum is the Wok-World of Kitchen Museum e. V. operated.
Sight 8: Cella St. Benedikt
The Cella Sankt Benedikt is a branch of the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey Königsmünster in Meschede, Hanover. It is located in an apartment building from the Wilhelminian period. In 2022, three monks belonged to the monastery.
Sight 9: Bonifatiusplatz
Bonifatiusplatz, in Hanover, Germany, is a square in the district of List, in the district of Vahrenwald-List.
Sight 10: Körtingbrunnen
The Körtingbrunnen is a fountain ensemble in the pedestrian zone of the Lister Mile on the corner of Körtingstrasse in the Hanover district of List.
Sight 11: Villa Köhler
The Villa Köhler in Hanover is a listed villa in the Neo-Renaissance style. It was, among other things, the first residence of General Field Marshal and later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in Hanover and, like his later Hanoverian residence, was temporarily called Villa Hindenburg. Today, the building is used by the construction and housing company Gundlach at Am Holzgraben 1 and Wedekindstraße 14 and 15 in the Oststadt district.
Sight 12: Markuskirche
St. Mark's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hannover-List, Germany. It is the seat of the Superintendent's Office of Hannover-Mitte.
Wikipedia: Markuskirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 13: St. Joseph
St. Joseph is a Catholic parish church in the district of List in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Her parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Hanover in the diocese of Hildesheim. The church is located at Steinmetzstraße 1, the neighbouring parish office at Isernhagener Straße 64. It was built in 1911 and 1912 according to plans by Maximilian Jagielski and named after the biblical figure of Joseph of Nazareth.
Sight 14: Evangelischer Treffpunkt
The Vahrenwald Church was an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Vahrenwald district of Hanover, Germany. The parish, which was founded on 1 October 1924, built the church building largely on its own after the Second World War. On May 19, 2013, the church was deconsecrated and a newly built church center was built on the same site after demolition.
Sight 15: Matthäuskirche
The Church of Matthew is a church in the district of List, Hanover, in the Evangelical Lutheran.
Sight 16: Kirche der Verbrennung der Reliquien des Hl. Sava
The Church of the Cremation of the Relics of St. Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Wikipedia: Kirche der Verbrennung der Reliquien des Hl. Sava (Hannover) (DE)
Sight 17: Pelikan-Brunnen
The Pelican Fountain in Hanover is a translocated and transformed fountain with two pelicans. The water feature dedicated to the owner of Pelikan AG, Fritz Beindorff, is located on Walderseestraße in the Hanover district of List on the edge of the Eilenriede in the Zoo district.
Sight 18: Gethsemane-Kirche
The Gethsemane Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hanover district of List. The church, which was completed in 1938 according to plans by Friedrich Fischer, is located at Klopstockstraße 16. It is rather inconspicuous with a small church tower, as this required the building permit, which was only granted on the pretext of building air-raid shelters in the basement. The building is plastered in white and has a tiled roof. Inside there is a wooden cross; the five windows on the south side, which were created by Otto and Werner Brenneisen and donated by confirmands between 1953 and 1957, depict scenes from the Gethsemane story in the New Testament.
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