Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #20 in Hanover, Germany

The Hiroshima Grove, also known as the Hiroshima Memorial Grove, in Hanover was created in 1987 in a park on the Eilenriede in the Bult district. It commemorates the 110,000 Japanese who died during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The grove was created as part of the city partnership between Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, and the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It consists of a memorial with 110 cherry trees, art installations and a granite memorial stone. In addition to August 6 events, the facility also hosts a celebration of the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival every year. In addition, it is a local recreation area.

Wikipedia: Hiroshima-Hain (Hannover) (DE)

The Bugenhagenkirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the southern part of Hanover. It was built between 1960 and 1962 according to plans by the Karlsruhe architect Werner Dierschke and inaugurated on Eternity Sunday 1962. It is named after the reformer Johannes Bugenhagen. In 2015 the church was included in the list of cultural monuments.

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

The tomb Otto von Emmich in the city cemetery of Engesohde in Hanover, department 15, number 188 A - D, is one of numerous honorary graves in the state capital of Lower Saxony. General Otto von Emmich was known and awarded the Liège fortress in 1914, particularly in the First World War in 1914, and was appointed honorary citizen Hannover on August 26, 1915 - together with the Generalfeld Marshal of Paul von Hindenburg. After he died in Hanover a few months later, on December 25, 1915, a large public funeral service was organized in front of the city's new town hall. The illustrated newspaper published in Leipzig sent her special artist Alfred Liebing to Hanover, who recorded the funeral ceremony and the funeral procession.

Wikipedia: Grabmal Otto von Emmich (DE)

The Mausoleum Völkers is a tomb in the Engesohde City Cemetery in Hanover, Germany. It was built in 1911 on the hereditary burial ground of the Völkers family of hotel owners and merchants from Bad Pyrmont. The mausoleum, which has been designated as a cultural monument, is now owned by the city of Hanover. The special feature of the building is its building material, concrete.

Wikipedia: Mausoleum Völkers (DE)

The Löwenbastion am Maschsee in Hanover is a viewing platform built in the 1930s on the eastern promenade of the lake and is also used as a venue for concerts, parties or for restaurants during the Maschsee Festival. The facility is located on Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer in the Hanover district of Südstadt near Waldhausen.

Wikipedia: Löwenbastion am Maschsee (DE), Website

The so-called Maschsee spring in Hanover is a listed water pump and filter system facility on the west bank in the south of the Maschsee. The monument at Karl-Thiele-Weg 35 near the Leine is rarely put into operation today, for example when there is a lack of oxygen in the Maschsee or festivities such as the Maschsee Festival. A small, park-like flower meadow adjoins the Maschsee spring.

Wikipedia: Maschsee-Quelle (DE)

The Edelhof Chapel is the oldest and at the same time the most important building in the Hanover district of Ricklingen. The location of the chapel, which was built in the 14th century by the von Alten family and is now a listed building, is the Edelhof Ricklingen.

Wikipedia: Edelhofkapelle (DE), Website

St. Michael's Church in Hanover is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Hannover-Ricklingen. The neo-Gothic sacred building on Stammestraße was erected at the end of the 19th century and is considered an important building of the Hanoverian School.

Wikipedia: Michaeliskirche (Hannover) (DE), Website

The Helene Weber Bridge is a listed former railway bridge over the Ihme in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, which is now used as a pedestrian and cycle bridge.

Wikipedia: Helene-Weber-Brücke (DE)

In the mid-1970s, the Telefunkenwerk Hannover was the second largest company in the metal industry in Hanover with almost 5000 employees. From 1972, the plant was the headquarters of Telefunken Fernseh und Rundfunk GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of the AEG-Telefunken Group. After the invention of PAL for color television and its subsequent introduction in Germany in 1967, Telefunken was the market leader in color televisions. From 1979 onwards, jobs in Hanover were gradually reduced; the last production hall was closed in 1993.

Wikipedia: Telefunkenwerk Hannover (DE)