Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Hanover, Germany
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5.3 km
54 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: Herrenhäuser Church
The German: Herrenhäuser Kirche in Hanover-Herrenhausen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a church built in neo-Gothic style. Located close to the Herrenhausen Gardens, it belongs to the Lutheran congregation of the Herrenhausen-Leinhausen parish and is a listed historic building.
Wikipedia: Herrenhäuser Kirche (EN), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 2: Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen
The Fürstenhaus Herrenhausen Museum in Hanover-Herrenhausen is a palace owned by the Guelph family, which was used as a museum from 1955 to 2011. The listed palace, which for a long time could also be booked for events, showed furniture, paintings, porcelain and sculptures on the ground floor. It has been closed to the public since 2011.
Sight 3: Herrenhäuser Gärten
The Herrenhausen Gardens of Herrenhausen Palace are located in Herrenhausen, an urban district of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to the era of the Kings of Hanover, they comprise Great Garden, Hill Garden, Georgen Garden and Guelf Garden.
Sight 4: Grotto by Niki de Saint Phalle
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.
Sight 5: Schloss Herrenhausen
Herrenhausen Palace is a former royal summer residence of the House of Hanover in the Herrenhausen district of the German city of Hanover. It is the centerpiece of Herrenhausen Gardens.
Sight 6: Neptunbrunnen
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.
Sight 7: Sea Life
Book Ticket*Sea Life is a chain of commercial sea life-themed aquarium attractions. As of April 2017 there are 53 Sea Life attractions around the world. The chain is owned by the British company, Merlin Entertainments.
Sight 8: Welf family mausoleum
The Guelph Mausoleum in Hanover is a listed burial place of numerous personalities from the noble family of the Guelphs. The location of the mausoleum is the Berggarten in the Herrenhausen district.
Sight 9: Berggarten
The Hill Garden is a historic botanical garden, one of the gardens of the Herrenhäuser Gärten, around the residence Herrenhäuser Schloss in Herrenhausen, now part of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. The garden was first created in 1666 as a vegetable garden on a hill north of the palace, and then transformed into a garden for exotic plants. In 1750, it was developed into a botanical garden, with some unusual trees from the period still surviving. It features a palm house, first built in 1846, and a mausoleum, where members of the royal family were interred. Damaged by air raids in World War II, the gardens were restored. In 2000, a house for rain forest-themed gardens was added, which was transformed to an aquarium in 2007.
Sight 10: Haus Mohrmann
The so-called Mohrmann House in Hanover was built at the end of the 19th century by the professor of architecture and architect Karl Mohrmann as a residence for his own family. The location of the listed terraced house, which is part of an ensemble by the same architect, is the Herrenhäuser Kirchweg 11 on the corner of Reinholdstraße in the Landhausviertel, Nordstadt district.
Sight 11: St. Marienkirche
St. Mary's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a listed church building in Hanover-Hainholz, Germany. It belongs to the Ev.-luth. Parish of Hannover-Hainholz.
Sight 12: Bilderwand Bertramstraße
The Bertramstraße picture wall in Hanover is an installation of art in public space initiated by Siegfried Neuenhausen and presented in 1991. In the cul-de-sac Bertramstraße in the Hainholz district, internationally renowned artists installed their works along an industrial wall about 80 meters long and 6 meters high.
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