Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Hanover, Germany

The guesthouse of the Lower Saxony state government is a former upper-middle-class villa in Hanover, Lüerstraße 5, in the Zoo district. The building, which is now a listed building, was built between 1898 and 1900 in the Neo-Renaissance style and has served as a guest house for the Lower Saxony state government since 1947.

Wikipedia: Gästehaus der Niedersächsischen Landesregierung (DE)

The German: Eilenriede is a 640-hectare (1,600-acre) municipal forest in Hanover, Germany. It is the largest urban city forest in Germany, one of the largest in Europe, and is nearly twice the size of Central Park in New York. The biggest German urban park in the strict sense of the word, however, is the 375-hectare (930-acre) English Garden in Munich.

Wikipedia: Eilenriede (EN)

The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Hanover is located in the Oststadt district, directly on Bödekerstraße between the junction of Friesenstraße and Holscherstraße.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Hannover) (DE), Website

Hohenzollernstraße 40 in Hanover, also known as Villa Waldersee or Walderseesches Haus, is a listed villa built in 1897 in the Oststadt district of Hanover. Field Marshal Alfred Graf von Waldersee lived there on the edge of the Eilenriede from 1898 until his death on 5 March 1904. In the building, which, according to the address book, city and business handbook of the Royal Residence City of Hanover and the City of Linden from 1904, was owned by the pensioner Theodor Borchers, who lived at Bödekerstraße 5, in addition to the rooms used exclusively by the Field Marshal, there was also the office of the III Army Inspectorate, which was equipped with a telephone.

Wikipedia: Hohenzollernstraße 40 (Hannover) (DE)

The Waldersee Monument in Hanover is a colossal statue of Field Marshal Alfred von Waldersee. The statue was created in 1914 and 1915 by the sculptor and architect Bernhard Hoetger. It forms the perspective end of Kleine Pfahlstraße in Hanover's Oststadt district. The monument stands on the edge of the Eilenriede opposite the Villa Waldersee, which Alfred von Waldersee lived in from 1898 until his death in 1904.

Wikipedia: Waldersee-Denkmal (DE)

The Apostle Church in Hanover is the church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Apostle parish in the eastern part of Hanover, which was consecrated in 1884.

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

The Hanover Court Prison Memorial is a memorial in Hanover, Germany, located behind the main train station and Raschplatz on the Lister Meile in front of the entrance to the pavilion. It commemorates the former court prison here, which was built in 1865–75 as the Royal Cell Prison of Hanover. A wide variety of victims and victim groups of the National Socialists suffered in it. It is also the first municipal memorial in the Federal Republic of Germany to explicitly commemorate the persecution of homosexual men during the Nazi era.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal Gerichtsgefängnis Hannover (DE)

The Ernst-August monument is a horse-riding statue in honor of the Land of the former Kingdom of Hanover, King Ernst August. It was created in 1861 by Albert Wolff and built in Ernst-August Square in front of the Hannover Central Station. Besides the Kröpcke watch, the monument is one of the most important meeting points in Hanover, commonly referred to as the “Unterm Schwanz”.

Wikipedia: Ernst-August-Denkmal (DE), Website

The Kröpcke Clock in Hanover is one of the traditional meeting places in the city. As one of the landmarks of the capital of Lower Saxony, the clock now also serves as a showcase for changing art exhibitions and presentations. The Kröpcke is located as a "square-like extension" in the pedestrian zone in front of Café Kröpcke at the intersection of Georgstraße with Bahnhofstraße and Karmarschstraße as well as Rathenaustraße in the Mitte district.

Wikipedia: Kröpcke-Uhr (DE)

The Dragon Slayer House in Hanover is a commercial building built between 1900 and 1901 at Georgstraße 10 at the height of the Schiller Monument. The heritage-protected, richly decorated sandstone façade of the house is best known for the figure of St. George as a dragon slayer, almost fully sculpted above the Georgspassage by Werner Hantelmann.

Wikipedia: Drachentöterhaus (DE)

The Schiller monument in Hanover is in the pedestrian zone of Georgstrasse at the confluence of Schillerstrasse in the Mitte district. The statue honors the poet Friedrich Schiller and is listed. His story goes back to the Kingdom of Hanover.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (Hannover) (DE)

BUSSTOPS in Hanover is an art project with originally twelve half-open bus shelters for light rail vehicles and city buses of üstra. It was part of a project on art in public space between 1990 and 1994 and was created on the initiative of the Lower Saxony Foundation in cooperation with üstra and Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen. The design project was carried out by internationally renowned architects and designers. The task for the artists was to create art as an extraordinary part of an ordinary service.

Wikipedia: BUSSTOPS (DE)

The Goseriedebad was an indoor swimming pool in Hanover, Germany, opened in 1905 and closed in 1982, named after its location on Goseriede Street near Steintorplatz. After renovations in the 1980s and 1990s, the former indoor swimming pool is now used by the Kunstverein Kestnergesellschaft and the private radio station radio ffn.

Wikipedia: Goseriedebad (DE), Website

The Neustädter-Markt-Brunnen fountain in Hanover was created in 1973/74 by Max Sauk. The complex in the centre of the Neustädter Markt, also known as the "Table Fountain", was privately initiated and donated. It is located in front of the entrance to the Neustadt Church.

Wikipedia: Neustädter-Markt-Brunnen (DE)

The Evangelical Lutheran Neustadt Court and City Church of St. Johannis in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt is the oldest Lower Saxon example of the Protestant spatial ideal of a hall church. The church is the preaching church of the state superintendent for the district of Hanover. It is located on the Neustädter Markt, on the so-called Street of Tolerance.

Wikipedia: Neustädter Kirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

The Church of the Friederikenstift is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt. It is located in the old north wing of the Friederikenstift hospital at Humboldtstraße 5.

Wikipedia: Kirche des Friederikenstiftes (DE)

The Leibniz Theater is a cabaret and cabaret theatre in Hanover, Germany, named after the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In addition to Hanoverian and international performers and theatre groups, newcomers, comedians and musicians from outside the city also perform as cabaret artists. Every year, more than 300 events take place in the Leibniz Theater with around 85 seats. The location is Kommandaturstraße 7 at the corner of Molthanstraße in the Calenberger Neustadt district. The theatre was to be closed on 1 October 2023.

Wikipedia: Leibniz Theater (DE), Website

The TAK, also known as Theater am Küchengarten, is a small cabaret stage with 130 seats in Hanover's Linden-Mitte district. It presents satire, cabaret, chansons and sophisticated nonsense at around 170 performances per season. The TAK is the only professionally operated facility of its kind in Lower Saxony.

Wikipedia: TAK (Kabarettbühne) (DE), Website

The Angel of Peace Fountain in Hanover is the oldest fountain in the formerly independent industrial city of Linden. The listed fountain is located in the oldest area of the Lindener Berg district cemetery, which was laid out in 1862 at Am Lindener Berge 44 in the Linden-Mitte district. The sculptor Karl Gundelach created the sandstone complex, which was erected in the cemetery in 1884, with an angel representing peace in the middle above the water basin.

Wikipedia: Friedensengel-Brunnen (DE)