City Anniversary: Discover Your Hannover!

To mark the city’s anniversary, in collaboration with experts Professor Dr. Thomas Schwark, Director of the Museums of Cultural History, and Sid Auffarth, an architectural historian, short walking tours have been developed for each city district, each highlighting the most historically significant sites and neighborhoods in that area. Some of these particularly distinctive places and landmarks are well-established fixtures in the cityscape, such as the New City Hall, the Großer Garten, and the Anzeiger high-rise. Others, such as the Edelhof Chapel, the Teutonia II cement plant, the Brüggemannhof, and more, reveal hidden and lesser-known aspects of the city.

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“We hope this summer campaign will encourage residents to go on a discovery tour on foot through the neighboring district or to get to know their own neighborhood from an urban historical perspective,” explains Hans Christian Nolte, managing director of Hannover Marketing und Tourismus GmbH.

The campaign, which begins on June 21, includes over 600 posters that will be displayed on advertising columns throughout the city until the end of summer vacation, thanks to the support of Ströer Deutsche Städte Medien GmbH. These 13 different poster designs will also be featured on banners at the family festival taking place on June 26 around the New City Hall to celebrate the city’s anniversary. A fold-out map provides an overview of the city’s current districts and presents the historically significant locations and neighborhoods in detail. This accompanying fold-out map will be available starting June 20 at the Tourist Information office at Ernst-August-Platz 8, at the citizen service centers, and at many public facilities such as libraries and community centers.

All tours, locations, addresses, and additional information are now available online at www.Hannover.de/DeinHannover.

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Photo competition

To accompany the campaign, there is a photo contest in which all residents of Hanover can submit their best photos from the city’s districts. These photos will be featured, among other places, in a photo gallery on the website www.Hannover.de/DeinHannover. The email address for the photo contest is: sommerfoto@hannover-marketing.de; the deadline for submissions is September 3, 2016.

The five best entries from each city district will each receive two tickets to the finals of the International Fireworks Competition on September 17, 2016, at the Herrenhausen Gardens.

Background information:

Hanover’s urban area is divided into 13 city districts and 51 neighborhoods. The city districts are Mitte, Vahrenwald-List, Bothfeld-Vahrenheide, Buchholz-Kleefeld, Misburg-Anderten, Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode, Südstadt-Bult, Döhren-Wülfel, Ricklingen, Linden-Limmer, Ahlem-Badenstedt-Davenstedt, Herrenhausen-Stöcken, and Nord.

You can download the fold-out map and view photos from the city district tour for editorial use at: http://www.hannover.de/Service/Presse-Medien/Presseservice-Marketing,-Tourismus,-Wirtschaft/Fotodownload

Published: June 17, 2016

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Tour through 13 city districts

Discover your Hanover - district walks

Discover the variety of characteristic places & neighborhoods in the city districts on your own.

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