Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Hanover, Germany
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9.8 km
91 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: Bethlehemkirche
The Bethlehem Church in the Linden-Nord district of Hanover is a listed church building in the style of a basilica. Inaugurated in 1906, the neo-Romanesque sacred building is seen as a masterpiece of historicism and a building of national importance from the point of view of monument preservation. The church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem parish.
Wikipedia: Bethlehemkirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 2: St. Benno
St. Benno is a Roman Catholic church in the Linden-Nord district of Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. It belongs to the parish of St. Godehard and the deanery of Hanover of the Diocese of Hildesheim. The church was built in 1901/02 according to plans by Christoph Hehl and consecrated on 28 October 1906 by Bishop Adolf Bertram. During the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War, the left aisle was destroyed by a bomb hit on 18 October 1943 and the church and rectory were again damaged on 17 March 1945. Even during the war, the damage was repaired in a makeshift manner. In the summer of 1951, a largely faithful restoration of the church began, which was completed on October 26, 1952.
Wikipedia: St. Benno (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 3: ehem. Gerhard-Uhlhorn-Kirche
The Gerhard -uhlhorn Church is a former Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hanover district of Linden-Nord. The building is now used as a student dormitory.
Sight 4: Johann Gerhard Helmcke
The Helmcke Monument in Hanover honours the master baker and grain merchant Johann Gerhard Helmcke (1750–1824), who saved Herrenhausen Allee in the Georgengarten from deforestation at the beginning of the 19th century. The location of the monument is Nienburger Straße in the Georgengarten at the level of Schneiderberg Street at the corner of the Franziusinstitut.
Sight 5: Saxon Steed
The list of monuments in Hanover contains a number of selected monuments, memorials, sculptures, artistic objects of sculpture ("street art") and fountains in public space, especially in the area of the city center of Hanover. These objects are not congruent with (cultural) monuments within the meaning of the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act.
Sight 6: Theodor-Lessing-Haus
The Theodor Lessing House in Hanover is a building of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover. Among other things, the listed building houses the Social Sciences Library (FBS) as part of the University Library. The location is the Welfengarten 2C in the Nordstadt district.
Sight 7: Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hanover, Germany. It is located in the Nordstadt district northwest of 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 lasted until 1890. As a residential church, the Christuskirche was only used once. However, there is still contact with the former Hanoverian royal family through the patronage of Ernst August, Prince of Hanover.
Sight 8: TCH
The House of Economic Development in Hanover is home to all the economic departments of the city and the region of Hanover, which in a broader sense deal with the economic development and marketing of existing or to be founded companies as well as the region itself. "Under one roof", citizens will find in particular the funding and advisory services of the service providers Hannover Marketing Tourismus (HMTG), Hannover Region Tourismus, hannover.de Internet GmbH and hannoverimpuls. The house is located at Vahrenwalder Straße 7 in the Vahrenwald district.
Wikipedia: Haus der Wirtschaftsförderung (Region Hannover) (DE)
Sight 9: Lukaskirche
The Lukaskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover-Vahrenwald.
Sight 10: WOK - World of Kitchen
The WOK - World of Kitchen Küchenmuseum in Hanover is the first large museum for kitchens in Europe. It was opened on April 15, 2010 in the company building of the former large printing company Fehling in the List district. The museum is the Wok-World of Kitchen Museum e. V. operated.
Sight 11: Cella St. Benedikt
The Cella Sankt Benedikt is a branch of the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey Königsmünster in Meschede, Hanover. It is located in an apartment building from the Wilhelminian period. In 2022, three monks belonged to the monastery.
Sight 12: Bonifatiusplatz
Bonifatiusplatz, in Hanover, Germany, is a square in the district of List, in the district of Vahrenwald-List.
Sight 13: Körtingbrunnen
The Körtingbrunnen is a fountain ensemble in the pedestrian zone of the Lister Mile on the corner of Körtingstrasse in the Hanover district of List.
Sight 14: Mahnmal Gerichtsgefängnis Hannover
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.
Sight 15: Dreifaltigkeitskirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Hanover is located in the Oststadt district, directly on Bödekerstraße between the junction of Friesenstraße and Holscherstraße.
Sight 16: Villa Köhler
The Villa Köhler in Hanover is a listed villa in the Neo-Renaissance style. It was, among other things, the first residence of General Field Marshal and later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in Hanover and, like his later Hanoverian residence, was temporarily called Villa Hindenburg. Today, the building is used by the construction and housing company Gundlach at Am Holzgraben 1 and Wedekindstraße 14 and 15 in the Oststadt district.
Sight 17: Markuskirche
St. Mark's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Hannover-List, Germany. It is the seat of the Superintendent's Office of Hannover-Mitte.
Wikipedia: Markuskirche (Hannover) (DE), Website, Heritage Website
Sight 18: Pelikan-Brunnen
The Pelican Fountain in Hanover is a translocated and transformed fountain with two pelicans. The water feature dedicated to the owner of Pelikan AG, Fritz Beindorff, is located on Walderseestraße in the Hanover district of List on the edge of the Eilenriede in the Zoo district.
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