Playgrounds and football fields

Playgrounds in Hanover

Spanning about 99 hectares, Hannover offers plenty of space to play, dig, run around, and kick a ball around.

Children on a playground in the forest. — Wakitu forest playground.

The playgrounds, football pitches and play parks in the city offer a wide range of play options: ropeways, sand and mud areas, water games, climbing animals, swings, suspension bridges, playhouses and entire climbing worlds. Here, children can test themselves, experience their environment through play, learn social interaction, simply let off steam and sometimes be a little louder. Creating attractive play opportunities for children is a particularly important task for the Department of Environment and Urban Greenery in a large city, because children bring life to the city.

Playgrounds

There are currently 448 playgrounds in Hanover. They are plentiful in every neighborhood and can be found "on almost every corner," and can be reached within a few minutes from home. To ensure that these facilities maintain a high standard, the playgrounds are regularly cleaned and inspected. Playground sponsors also play an important role in this process.

Every year, around two new playgrounds are built across the city, and existing older playgrounds are also completely or partially renovated. The special program "Ecological upgrading of playgrounds and schoolyards" is an important building block for revamping outdated and unattractive playgrounds in particular.

The playground bylaws are intended to counteract misuse of playgrounds. It serves to protect children and young people and is intended to increase the feeling of safety among children and accompanying persons. This way, administrative offenses can be punished.

Soccer fields

There are 142 public soccer fields in Hanover. These fields provide young recreational soccer players, in particular, with a place to let off steam and practice. And since the fields are equipped with ball-catch fences and goals, balls don’t get lost as easily.

Notes on use

According to the playground regulations and on-site signage, children up to the age of 18 are permitted on playgrounds from 7 am to 8 pm. The same applies to football pitches.

Over 125 years of romping in the forest

Hanover's first playground "Wakitu"

Together with the Sonnen playground at today's Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, it is the oldest playground in Hanover and yet it will never...

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Playgrounds in Hanover

Brochure, September 2020, 52 pages.

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