Even on the sunniest of days or the clearest of nights, it never quite stops raining in Germany’s thirteenth largest city. Here in the pedestrian zone in downtown Hannover, at the corner of Georgstraße and Große Packhofstraße, stands a dumpy, grumpy couple with a few drops of rain always dripping Read More …
From the outside, the Hannover Opera House still (or again) looks much the same as it did when it first opened as the Royal Court Theatre (Königliches Hoftheater) on September 1, 1852. In July 1943 the inside of the theater was destroyed fire bombs in one of the many bombing Read More …
This pompous equestrian statue of King Ernst August I, who ruled the Kingdom of Hannover from 1837 until his death in 1851, is located directly in front of the main railway station. People often agree to meet “under the tail”, meaning at the rear end of Ernst August’s horse. The Read More …
This is perhaps not the world’s most attractive water tower, but it is rather unusual, don’t you think? Originally, the lower 2/3 of this structure was built as an air raid shelter in the Second World War. It was used for that purpose quite often because Misburg, now a district Read More …
The abbreviation IGS stands for Integrierte Gesamtschule = Integrated Comprehensive School. The school is open to pupils with “different degrees of ability, from all social strata.” This may or may not sound like a revolutionary idea, depending on where you come from. In many countries it is quite normal for Read More …
This “Lister Mile” connects the main railroad station with Lister Platz, which is in fact exactly one mile (1.6 kilometers) to the north in the most densely populated district of Hannover, Germany. This used to be an extremely car-infested street, but when the subway was built in the 1970s they Read More …