Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #16 in Hanover, Germany

Waterlooplatz in Hanover is a four-hectare lawn in the Calenberger Neustadt district. The Waterloo Column stands on the square. 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 Lower Saxony state capital.

Wikipedia: Waterlooplatz (DE)

The 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. In the north, the Maschpark is bordered by the Friedrichswall. Between Maschteich and Friedrichswall, the New Town Hall was completed in 1913.

Wikipedia: Maschpark (DE)

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 carved from shell limestone, two female and two male, also stand as allegories for trees, bushes, meadows and flowers.

Wikipedia: Trip-Brunnen (DE)

The Cemetery of Honour on the north shore of the Maschsee in Hanover is a listed cemetery created 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 creation of the cemetery of honour on the Arthur-Menge-Ufer on the north shore of the Maschsee was deliberately chosen as a central inner-city location behind the New Town Hall for commemoration.

Wikipedia: Ehrenfriedhof am Maschsee-Nordufer (DE)

The Torchbearer Column in Hanover is a listed stele with the figure of a torchbearer. The location is the north shore of the Maschsee, on Kurt-Schwitters-Platz named after Kurt Schwitters in the Hanover district of Südstadt.

Wikipedia: Fackelträger-Säule (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Sprengel Museum (EN), Website

The stone box of Anderlingen is the most famous stone box in Germany, which was built about 3,400 years ago in the early Bronze Age. It was found in 1907 in a hill near Anderlingen in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) and translocated to Hanover.

Wikipedia: Steinkiste von Anderlingen (DE)

The Hanover City Library is a public library in Hanover, Germany. It includes the central city library on Hildesheimer Straße, 17 district libraries and a mobile library with a book bus. It is integrated into the Hanover city administration as the City Library Department in Department VII - Education and Culture.

Wikipedia: Stadtbibliothek Hannover (DE), Website

The Garden Church of St. Mary is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Garden Church congregation in the Warmbüchenviertel in the Hanover district of Mitte. It is located in Marienstraße in the middle of the garden cemetery with classicist grave monuments from the 19th century.

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The Garden Cemetery is a cemetery in Hanover, Germany. It was created in 1741 and is located by the Garden Church built in 1749. The cemetery and the church are both named after the garden parish outside the former parish city walls in front of Aegidien Gate. The cemetery, which contains a number of classicising grave markers from the first half of the nineteenth century, was closed in 1864 with the establishment of the Stadtfriedhof Engesohde. Today it forms a park in the middle of inner city Hanover. The graves of Charlotte Buff, the astronomer Caroline Herschel and the painter Johann Heinrich Ramberg are located here. The Gartenfriedhof lies on Marienstraße between Warmbüchenstraße and Arnswaldtstraße.

Wikipedia: Gartenfriedhof (EN)

Commedia Futura is an independent theatre based in the Eisfabrik art and culture centre in the Südstadt district of Hanover. Since its founding in 1982, more than 50 experimental, multimedia in-house productions have been created. They use elements of spoken theatre as well as dance, music and video playbacks.

Wikipedia: Commedia Futura (DE), Website

The Struckmeier Fountain in Hanover is a listed fountain in the Südstadt district. The location is the corner of Sallstraße and Kleine Düwelstraße.

Wikipedia: Struckmeier-Brunnen (DE)

The Bethlehem Chapel in Hanover is a sacred building built at the end of the 19th century in Hanover's Südstadt, which is now a listed building. The building, built in 1887 at Große Barlinge 35, is set back from the street. The congregation, founded in 1885, belongs to the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Wikipedia: Bethlehemkapelle (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website, Youtube