Braunschweiger Platz (Hanover)

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Braunschweiger Platz with a view of Hans-Böckler-Allee, in the foreground Marienstraße

The Brunswick Square is a square and a busy road intersection in Hanover district Bult , near the border with the districts Zooviertel and South City . Until the construction of the tram at the end of the 1980s, it was a large, round, non-accessible green area that was bypassed in the roundabout while the tram drove through the middle.

Traffic significance

Road traffic

The Braunschweiger Platz is crossed in a west-east direction by the axis Marienstraße / Hans-Böckler-Allee, which leads from the city ​​center and the southern part of the city via Braunschweiger Platz through the north of the Bult to the horse tower , the Messeschnellweg and to Kleefeld . Until the construction of the southern expressway , this was the federal highway 65 leading to Braunschweig . To the southeast, diagonally through the Bult, the Bischofsholer Damm also runs to the Messeschnellweg and to Bemerode . Plathnerstrasse and Bultstrasse lead in a north and north-west direction to the Zoo district.

Local public transport

Is under crosses the square of here as subway trains running rail in the direction of the southeast situated neighborhoods. The Hanover – Göttingen railway line runs on a bridge over Marienstraße near Braunschweiger Platz . There are plans to set up a stop for the S-Bahn lines operating there in order to link them to the Braunschweiger Platz tram stop, which would create a transfer point in Hanover's inner-city southeast.

particularities

Veterinary college

The premises of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (colloquially often called Tiho ) are located at Braunschweiger Platz .

art

  • A bus stop house of the art project BUSSTOPS on Braunschweiger Platz was designed by Frank Gehry in the form of a reptile armor.
  • The Steinhoff furniture store was built in the form of a round metal pavilion with two red metal steles on the premises of Braunschweiger Platz.
  • On the square is the sculpture Fat Man Eats Mouse by Eberhard Eggers

Top gastronomy

The only Hanoverian restaurant currently listed with a star in the Michelin Guide is on Braunschweiger Platz: "Jante" (chef Tony Hohlfeld), which opened in 2015, received the award for the first time in the 2017 Michelin Guide. It is located in a former toilet block that was already used for gastronomic purposes before the "Jante" opening ("Le Monde", "Saison").

Web links

Commons : Braunschweiger Platz (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Local transport plan 2008
  2. Local transport plan 2015

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 13.9 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 42.6 ″  E