Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #15 in Hanover, Germany

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 13.6 km
Ascend 147 m
Descend 134 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 Hanover

Sight 1: Kirche der Verbrennung der Reliquien des Hl. Sava

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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)

1270 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 2: Matthäuskirche

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The Church of Matthew is a church in the district of List, Hanover, in the Evangelical Lutheran.

Wikipedia: Matthäuskirche (Hannover) (DE)

447 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: St. Joseph

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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.

Wikipedia: St. Joseph (Hannover) (DE), Website

1011 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 4: Gudrun-Pausewang-Platz

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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.

Wikipedia: Gudrun-Pausewang-Platz (DE)

459 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 5: TCH

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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)

755 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: St. Marien

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729 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Lutherkirche

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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

631 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Brückenbastion

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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.

Wikipedia: Brückenbastion (DE)

574 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Wilhelm-Busch Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst

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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.

Wikipedia: Wilhelm Busch Museum (EN), Website, Facebook

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: 20. Geburtstag Kronprinz Georg von Hannover 1839

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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)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Hundestein

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Hundestein

The Hundestein in Hanover, popularly known as the "Dog Monument", is an approximately 12-metre-high obelisk in the Georgengarten.

Wikipedia: Hundestein (Hannover) (DE)

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Leibniztempel

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Leibniztempel Christian A. Schröder (ChristianSchd) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Leibniz Temple in the Georgengarten in Hanover is a pavilion built between 1787 and 1790 in honour of the citizen and polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), who was active in Hanover. It is considered to be the first public monument in Germany to a non-nobleman. The open, roofed round temple made of sandstone with twelve Ionic columns bears the inscription "Genio Leibnitii" in gilded letters.

Wikipedia: Leibniztempel (DE)

703 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 13: Neptunbrunnen

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The Neptune Fountain in Hanover is a fountain in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen, Germany. The water-spouting baroque sculpture ensemble with the Roman water god Neptune can be found there in the orangery parterre between the Golden Gate and the gallery building.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Hannover) (DE)

483 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Großer Garten

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Großer Garten

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

333 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Great Fountain

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The Great Fountain is located in the Great Garden in the Herrenhausen district of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony. The fountain reaches a height of around 70 to 80 meters and is one of the highest in Europe. Since its regular opening in 1720, it has been one of the main attractions of the Great Garden, one of the most important baroque gardens in Europe.

Wikipedia: Große Fontäne (Herrenhausen) (DE)

1864 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 16: St. Nikolai

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The St. Nikolai Church in Hanover is a listed hall church building and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the same name in Hanover-Limmer. The church named after Nicholas of Myra is located at Sackmannstraße 26 in the Limmer district.

Wikipedia: St.-Nikolai-Kirche (Limmer) (DE), Website

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Gedenktafel für das ehemalige Konzentrationslager Limmer

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The Hannover-Limmer subcamp, also known as Limmer or Conti-Limmer concentration camp, was one of the subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp, in which up to about 1000 female prisoners were imprisoned. It was located in the Hanoverian district of Limmer and existed from the end of June 1944 until the liberation at the beginning of April 1945.

Wikipedia: KZ-Außenlager Hannover-Limmer (DE)

676 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 18: Stadtteilfriedhof Limmer alt

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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)

1869 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 19: Martin-Luther-Kirche

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The Martin Luther Church in Hanover is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Hanoverian district of Ahlem at Wunstorfer Landstraße 50.

Wikipedia: Martin-Luther-Kirche (Ahlem) (DE)

928 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 20: Maria Trost

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The Church of Maria Trost is the Roman Catholic church in Ahlem, a district on the western edge of Hanover, Lower Saxony. The church is a subsidiary church of the parish of "St. Godehard" with its seat in the district of Linden-Süd, in the deanery of Hanover of the diocese of Hildesheim. The church, named after the Marian title "Comforter of the Afflicted", is located at Parkstraße 2.

Wikipedia: Maria Trost (Hannover) (DE), Website

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