Historical Hanover Old City Hall (Altes Rathaus)

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The Hanover Old City Hall (Altes Rathaus) is an important building in the urban district center in Hanover Germany.

City administration now has its seat in the New City Hall, while in this building are shops today.

It took almost 100 years to construct this hall. First building parts were established in the year 1410. Afterwards, the building got multiplicity of extensions. In the year 1844, a reorganization of the wings took place. At that time, it was planned to torn down the entire building.

Fortunately, a vigorous protests of a citizen initiative under citation of the renowned architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase, prevented that. He was finally allowed to rehabilitate the two remained wings and reconstructed the pure style condition out of the time around 1500.

Hanover Old City Hall

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Nowadays, you can still see its special treasures maintained throughout the Hanover Old City Hall. Magnificent gothic tone, the representation of the medieval people game, to name a few.

Hanover Old City Hall is located right in oldtown, next to the Market Church (Marktkirche), in the center of the city.

Aah yeah, Leibnizhaus is also very close to this town hall, but let us go to the New City Hall first, OK? Gooood...

Warmly,

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