Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #9 in Hanover, Germany

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 9.8 km
Ascend 95 m
Descend 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 Hanover

Sight 1: Bethlehemkirche

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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

628 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 2: St. Benno

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St. BennoAxelHH; cropped by Rabanus Flavus / Attribution

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

418 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: ehem. Gerhard-Uhlhorn-Kirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Gerhard-Uhlhorn-Kirche (DE)

884 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 4: Johann Gerhard Helmcke

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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.

Wikipedia: Helmcke-Denkmal (DE)

544 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Saxon Steed

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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.

Wikipedia: Liste von Denkmälern in Hannover (DE)

285 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Theodor-Lessing-Haus

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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.

Wikipedia: Theodor-Lessing-Haus (DE)

633 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 7: Christuskirche

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Christuskirche Christian A. Schröder (ChristianSchd) / CC BY-SA 4.0

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.

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

818 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 8: TCH

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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)

490 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Lukaskirche

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Lukaskirche

The Lukaskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover-Vahrenwald.

Wikipedia: Lukaskirche (Hannover) (DE), Website

283 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 10: WOK - World of Kitchen

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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.

Wikipedia: WOK – World of Kitchen Museum (DE), Website

277 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Cella St. Benedikt

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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.

Wikipedia: Cella Sankt Benedikt (DE), Website

267 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Bonifatiusplatz

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Bonifatiusplatz, in Hanover, Germany, is a square in the district of List, in the district of Vahrenwald-List.

Wikipedia: Bonifatiusplatz (Hannover) (DE)

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Körtingbrunnen

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Körtingbrunnen Foto aufgenommen von Benutzer de:Benutzer:Axel Hindemith / Copyrighted free use

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.

Wikipedia: Körtingbrunnen (DE)

915 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 14: Mahnmal Gerichtsgefängnis Hannover

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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.

Wikipedia: Mahnmal Gerichtsgefängnis Hannover (DE)

769 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 15: Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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

589 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Villa Köhler

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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.

Wikipedia: Villa Köhler (DE)

445 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Markuskirche

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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

1192 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 18: Pelikan-Brunnen

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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.

Wikipedia: Pelikan-Brunnen (Hannover) (DE)

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