Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Hanover, Germany

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 39 m
Descend 33 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: ehem. Verwaltungsgebäude der Anderter Brauerei

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ehem. Verwaltungsgebäude der Anderter Brauerei

The Anderter Brewery in Hanover was founded at the beginning of the 18th century and was one of the oldest breweries in the capital of Lower Saxony. The location of the company was the area between the (today's) streets Am Tiergarten, Oisseler Straße and An der Brauerei in the district of Anderten, where, among other things, a listed administration building built by Fritz Höger has been preserved.

Wikipedia: Anderter Brauerei (DE)

1833 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 2: Tiergarten

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The Hanover Zoo is a 112-hectare park and wooded area in the district of Kirchrode in the southeast of Hanover. In the fenced area, visitors can move along paths between free-roaming wildlife. The zoo is one of the oldest game reserves in Germany and was fenced in at the end of the 17th century as a stately hunting ground. Since it became accessible to the population in 1799, it has been a popular recreation and excursion destination for the Hanoverian city population.

Wikipedia: Tiergarten Hannover (DE)

981 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 3: Hannah-Kapelle

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The Aue Chapel in Hanover is a former chapel of the Bethesda Gardens of the Henriettenstiftung in the Hanover district of Kirchrode. Location of the listed building: on Tiergartenstraße between the houses Emmaus and Bethel.

Wikipedia: Aue-Kapelle (Hannover) (DE)

104 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Simeonkirche

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The Simeon Church in Hanover is an Evangelical Lutheran church building built in the mid-1960s by the Henrietten Foundation's Centre for the Elderly with a pentagonal floor plan. The building, named after the prophet Simeon, is located on Schwemannstraße in the Hanover district of Kirchrode.

Wikipedia: Simeonkirche (Hannover) (DE)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Museum für textile Kunst

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The Museum für textilkunst e.V. in Hannover-Kirchrode is a registered, non-profit association textile museum. It was opened in 2007. It has a collection of fabrics and garments collected from all over the world. On display are mainly traditional and imaginative handicrafts made of fabrics. The museum is located in the bunker in Borchersstraße in Kirchrode. The thick bunker walls are ideally suited for the exhibition of the costumes, as the almost constant room climate also protects the fabrics in the long term and prevents tissue decay in the long term.

Wikipedia: Museum für textile Kunst (DE), Website

448 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Stadtteilfriedhof Anderten

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The Anderten District Cemetery in Hanover, also known as the Anderten Cemetery or Anderten Cemetery, is a former church and now municipal cemetery laid out in the 19th century with an area of around 1.66 hectares. The location of the listed green space in today's Hanover district of Kirchrode is Ostfeldstraße 12.

Wikipedia: Stadtteilfriedhof Anderten (DE)

500 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Jakobikirche

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St. Jakobi is the name of a Lutheran parish and church in Hannover-Kirchrode, Lower Saxony, Germany. It dates back to the 12th century, was remodeled in Baroque style, destroyed in World War II, and restored.

Wikipedia: St. Jakobi, Kirchrode (EN), Website

115 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Kirchröder Friedhof

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The Kirchröder Cemetery is a cemetery in Hanover, Germany, which was built in the 19th century and is now a listed building. It is maintained by the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Jakobikirche in Hannover-Kirchrode and is called the cemetery of the Jakobikirchengemeinde zu Hannover-Kirchrode, also known as the cemetery of the Jakobi parish in Hanover-Kirchrode. It is located on the street Kleiner Hillen 5 at the corner of Pastor-Gerhard-Dittrich-Weg.

Wikipedia: Kirchröder Friedhof (DE)

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