Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Hanover, Germany

The Königsworther Bridge in Hanover is considered one of the most beautiful bridges in the city. Its four magnificent candelabras were created by the sculptor Carl Dopmeyer. The listed segmental arch bridge crosses the Leine in Calenberger Neustadt in the course of Königsworther Straße.

Wikipedia: Königsworther Brücke (DE)

The Villa Simon is a building located in Hanover on Königsworther Platz in the district of Calenberger Neustadt. It was built in 1858–1860 as the residence of Eduard Simon, a lawyer of Jewish origin. Jewish families were forcibly admitted to the neo-Renaissance style villa during the Second World War. The building survived the air raids on Hanover during the war undamaged. Today, institutions of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover are housed here.

Wikipedia: Villa Simon (DE)

BUSSTOPS in Hanover is an art project with originally twelve half-open bus shelters for trams and city buses of the 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)

J. C. König und Ebhardt was a printing company that was founded in Hanover in 1845 and went bankrupt in 1999. Through technical innovations, J. C. König und Ebhardt was a leading company in printing technology for a long time, which made a decisive contribution to Hanover's reputation as a printing centre. It is considered the world's first business book factory and was the most important for almost 150 years. The company employed internationally renowned artists as graphic designers.

Wikipedia: J. C. König & Ebhardt (DE)

The Gartenhaus in Hanover is a residential building built around 1820, which is located in the Nordstadt district. It is a testimony to the originally rural settlement outside the former city fortifications of Hanover. The last house of former "garden people" was built as a simple classicist half-timbered building and can be found today at the address Am Judenkirchhof 10/10A. It is the oldest surviving residential building in the district and is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Gartenhaus (Hannover) (DE)

The Brüggemannhof in Hanover is a small residential complex built between 1913 and 1924 in several construction phases, which is now a listed building from the time of reform housing construction. The building complex, owned by the Hanoverian housing cooperative Spar- und Bauverein, is located on an irregular, almost three-sided plot, which is bordered on two sides by the streets Am Judenkirchhof and Schloßwender Straße in the Nordstadt district.

Wikipedia: Brüggemannhof (DE)

The Christuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hanover, Germany. It is located in the Nordstadt district northwest of the Klagesmarkt and was built between 1859 and 1864 by Conrad Wilhelm Hase as the residence church of George V. The neo-Gothic brick building is the first new church building in Hanover after 1747 and a model church according to the Eisenach Regulation, a recommendation issued in 1861 for the design of Protestant church buildings, which existed until 1890. As a residence church, the Christuskirche was used only once. However, there is still contact with the former Hanoverian royal family – through the patronage of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover.

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

The Continental high-rise is a high-rise building in Hanover, Germany. When it was inaugurated in 1953, it was the tallest high-rise building in West Germany and the headquarters of Continental AG. The listed building complex at Königsworther Platz 1 in the Mitte district has been used by the University of Hanover since 1995.

Wikipedia: Continental-Hochhaus (DE)

The Neustadt Cemetery in Hanover, operated from 1646 to 1876, is a listed public park on Königsworther Platz with some important grave monuments.

Wikipedia: Neustädter Friedhof (Hannover) (DE)

The Goethe Bridge in Hanover leads over the Leine in the course of Goethestraße.

Wikipedia: Goethebrücke (Hannover) (DE)

St. Nicholas' Chapel is an architectural heritage monument and the oldest building in Hanover, Germany. First built as a chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas between 1250 and 1284 and a choir dating to 1325, it was damaged severely during the aerial bombings of Hanover during World War II. In 1953 the then approximately 700-year-old chapel was largely torn down to make way for a road as part of a larger post-war city-wide strategy to accommodate cars, with the currently 699-year-old choir left standing as a monument.

Wikipedia: St. Nicholas' Chapel, Hanover (EN)

The Hölty monument in Hanover was created at the beginning of the 20th century by the architect Otto Lüer and the sculptor Karl Gundelach. The monument was erected in place of a grave of the "spring poet" in the Old St. Nikolai Cemetery, which was no longer to be found at the time of the Electorate of Hanover, and has been changed several times over the course of time.

Wikipedia: Hölty-Denkmal (Hannover) (DE)