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Herrenhausen Gardens are the city's pride and joy - a vast complex of formal gardens laid out between 1666 and the mid-19th century. The various gardens that are known together as the 'Herrenhäuser Gärten' are in the French Baroque, English landscape and botanical styles. In total the four gardens, the Grosser Garten, Georgengarten, Berggarten and Welfengarten, cover no less than 135 hectares of land to the north-west of the city centre. The gardens also feature several impressive buildings, such as the Orangery, the Wilhelm Busch Museum (shown below) and the Fürstenhaus.
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| Herrenhausen Gardens |
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| Wilhelm Busch Museum, Georgengarten |
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The Herrenausen Gardens can be reached by underground / tram. From Kröpcke underground station (near the main station), you take the no. 4 or 5 heading for Garbsen or Stöcken respectively. Journey time is approx. 10 minutes. The gardens are open from 9am to 8pm during the summer. The adult admission price in 2005 was €3.
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The earliest parts of the Old Town Hall were built as far back as 1410. The remainder of the building was constructed over the following 100 years. Towards the end of the 19th century it was faced with demolition before a campaign by local citizens saved it and the well-known neo-Gothic architect Conrad Wilhelm Hase restored it to its original condition of around 1500. The old town hall location.
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| Hanover's Old Town Hall |
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| Hanover's New Town Hall |
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Looking at the New Town Hall, you could be forgiven for believing it was actually a much older palace from the city's royal era. In fact, though, it dates from 1913, since when it has housed the office of the city's Lord Mayor, meeting rooms for the city's civil servants and formal facilities for Hanover to entertain official guests to the region.
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The State of Lower Saxony was was formally established here in 1946. The New Town Hall is open to the public and includes a unique sloping lift to the copper dome, where there is an observation platform offering good views of Hanover and the surrounding area. Location. |
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