List of important buildings in Hanover
The list of important buildings in Hanover contains selected buildings in the area of today's city of Hanover , their architects and builders as well as information on the history of their origins and use.
| Building | Year of construction and further information |
Architect / builder | location | image |
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| Aegidienkirche * | 1347 | location |
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| Destroyed in 1943, ruin , memorial for the victims of war and violence | ||||
| Old Town Hall * | 1410 and from 1877 | Conrad Wilhelm Hase | location |
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| originally the seat of the city administration, today gastronomy and retail | ||||
| Hanover District Court | location | |||
| 1852–1888 in the Reden'schen Palais | ||||
| Scoreboard high-rise | 1927-1928 | Fritz Höger | location |
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| Press history: Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack , Der Spiegel (1947) and Stern (1948) | ||||
| Burgstrasse 12 (Hanover) | 1566 | location | ||
| Oldest half-timbered house in Hanover | ||||
| Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape | 1846 | Ernst Ebeling (architect) |
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| formerly representing the estates, today the seat of the stock exchange | ||||
| Continental skyscraper | 1953 | Ernst Zinsser and Werner Dierschke | location |
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| The tallest skyscraper in Germany when it was built | ||||
| Döhrener Tower | 1382 | location |
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| Part of the Hanoverian Landwehr | ||||
| Herrenhausen Castle | Baroque around 1640, classicism | location |
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| former residence of Georg V (Hanover) , today a conference center and museum | ||||
| International Neuroscience Institute | 1999/2000 | SIAT building planning and engineering services GmbH & Co. OHG, Munich | location |
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| Artist house | 1853 to 1856 | Conrad Wilhelm Hase | location |
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| used as a museum until 1902 | ||||
| Linen lock | 1637 | location |
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| Formerly the residence of the kings of Hanover , today the seat of the state parliament | ||||
| Linden Tower | 14th Century | location |
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| Part of the Hanoverian Landwehr | ||||
| Market Church * | 14th Century | location |
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| a previous Romanesque building was built around 1125 | ||||
| New Town Hall * | 1901 to 1913 | Hermann Eggert | location |
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| Seat of the city administration | ||||
| Opera house | 1845 to 1852 | Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves | location |
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| formerly "Royal Court Theater" | ||||
| Palais Grote | 1862 to 1864 | Otto Goetze (architect) | location |
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| Residence of Count Adolf von Grote | ||||
| Horse tower | 1387 | location |
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| Part of the Hanoverian Landwehr | ||||
| City Hall | 1911-1914 | Paul Bonatz , Friedrich Eugen Scholer and Michael Kott | location |
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| Part of the congress and event center | ||||
| Welfenschloss | 1857-1866 | Christian Heinrich Tramm | location |
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| planned as a residence for Georg V (Hanover) , then Royal Technical University, today university | ||||
Criteria for important structures
At least two of the following criteria should be met:
- Listed building.
- Presentation in one of the major architecture magazines such as Bauwelt , Baumeister , DBZ - Deutsche Bauzeitschrift , Arch + , Der architekt , Deutsches Architektenblatt , BDA - award winner and honorable mention
- Buildings by important architects or well-known institutions
- historical meaning.
See also
- List of architectural monuments in Hanover in the 13 Hanover city districts
- List of train stations in Hanover
- Preservation of monuments in Hanover
literature
- Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Bd. 1, H. 2, Part 1 : Monuments of the "old" city area of Hanover. Self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1932 (here marked with *)