Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Hanover, Germany

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Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 4.5 km
Ascend 37 m
Descend 31 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: Hiroshima-Gedenkhain

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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)

451 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Melanchthonkirche

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The Melanchthon Church, named after Philipp Melanchthon, is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hanover, Germany.

Wikipedia: Melanchthonkirche (Hannover) (DE)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Dievision Agentur für Kommunikation GmbH

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Dievision Agentur für Kommunikation GmbH Christian A. Schröder (ChristianSchd) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Robert-Koch-Platz 10 in Hanover is the address of an art-historically outstanding building of the International Style in the capital of Lower Saxony. Built at the end of the 1920s and now designated as an individual monument, the building, which was built at the end of the 1920s and is now designated as an individual monument, is also important for the district in terms of urban development in the line of sight of Brehmstraße and as a peripheral development of the square named after the bacteriologist Robert Koch.

Wikipedia: Robert-Koch-Platz 10 (Hannover) (DE)

1271 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 4: Bugenhagenkirche

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Bugenhagenkirche

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

690 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 5: Mahnmal gegen Kolonialismus

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The Karl-Peters memorial stone, also known as Karl-Peters monument and a warning panel against colonialism, is a memorial originally built in the mid-1930s in honor of Carl Peters, which was later transformed into a memorial against colonialism. The location of the memorial stone in the public spaces of the southern part of Hanover, which is also compensated as a monument and as part of an ensemble, is the green area at today's Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal gegen Kolonialismus (Hannover) (DE)

513 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 6: Hochhaus Glückauf

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The Glückauf high-rise in Hanover was completed in 1930 and was a highlight in terms of urban development during the expansion of residential construction in the south of the city. The location of the listed high-rise is Geibelplatz 5 in the Südstadt district.

Wikipedia: Hochhaus Glückauf (DE)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: St. Heinrich

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St. Heinrich is a Catholic parish church in the southern part of Hanover, Sallstraße 72. Her parish of the same name belongs to the deanery of Hanover in the diocese of Hildesheim.

Wikipedia: St. Heinrich (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website

751 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 8: Schöner Brunnen

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The Beautiful Fountain in Hanover is a fountain created in 1979 by the sculptor Hans-Jürgen Breuste. Installed as art in public space at the corner of Hildesheimer Strasse and Freytagstrasse in Hanover's Südstadt district, the artist arranged a column made of granite and two columns made of stainless steel from which water flows out.

Wikipedia: Schöner Brunnen (Hannover) (DE)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Constructa-Brunnen

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The Constructa Fountain in Hanover is a listed fountain on Wildermuthweg at the junction with Hildesheimer Straße. The square is an important place to stay and meet in front of the Constructa block of the same name, especially for young families with children.

Wikipedia: Constructa-Brunnen (DE)

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