Hannover pic dump post
Friday, October 10th, 2008 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mothwingThe inevitable was put off by my inability to get to the internet, but now, here there are some pictures of Hannover. I know that I usually concentrate on how ugly it is, but this time I went to the inner city, especially the banker's district, and I've also looked at some of the beautiful churches.
View out of our window:
... not as green as Uelzen, but I love the view, somehow, the roofs, the other houses.
The Nikolai cemetery, founded in the nineteenth century, partially destroyed in the second world war and today continuously destroyed after that because some horrible people thought that a great big freaking roundabout might be a good thing to have in the middle of a beautiful historic cemetery. What's happening to it makes me really angry, as does the fate of the beautiful little chapel from the thirteenth century which is now situated in a nice spot squeezed in between a ShinShin eatery and a junction. You have to walk dangerously close to the traffic to catch a glimpse of the inside, and there cemetery is torn in two by the junction and several housing blocks.
The aforementioned road in the junction and the housing blocks.
The ugly building is where the humanities are situated - as always. The economy students probably get to study in the pretty main building.
Since it's autumn the cemetery comes with flocks of crows eating the acorns.
Banking district with loads of money temples from different periods. I stuck to the prettier ones and left out the glass monsters.
There is a huge area between the buildings, deserted, of course, full of old plane trees and benches I can't imagine anyone ever sitting on.
This is the ugliest building I have ever seen.
An art gallery, or rather a house of arts. For some reason someone must have thought that a great big chandelier in the street would look good.
The lions in front of the door are obviously also unhappy with the chandelier thing.
The opera. Someone felt the need to add a big red flag that says "Opera!" for the confused.
Street across the opera.
The Michaelis church - it's around the corner from our place and beautiful. I can't wait to see it from the inside, there was a storytelling event going on in there when we were in the area.
Really pretty house across the church.
Inneres Aegidientor. It used to be a gate to the town in the fourteenth century but was rebuilt later, obviously.
I love the gables and the images.
Aegidienkirche, which is probably me favourite church in Hannover, even though it's a war memorial now. I love that there is no roof and the building simply opens up into the sky, I'd love to attend a service in that church.
And some pictures from the inner city that don't really fit into any category.
Sorry about the length and the amount of pictures, this is probably more TMI than anything else.
View out of our window:
... not as green as Uelzen, but I love the view, somehow, the roofs, the other houses.
The Nikolai cemetery, founded in the nineteenth century, partially destroyed in the second world war and today continuously destroyed after that because some horrible people thought that a great big freaking roundabout might be a good thing to have in the middle of a beautiful historic cemetery. What's happening to it makes me really angry, as does the fate of the beautiful little chapel from the thirteenth century which is now situated in a nice spot squeezed in between a ShinShin eatery and a junction. You have to walk dangerously close to the traffic to catch a glimpse of the inside, and there cemetery is torn in two by the junction and several housing blocks.
The aforementioned road in the junction and the housing blocks.
The ugly building is where the humanities are situated - as always. The economy students probably get to study in the pretty main building.
Since it's autumn the cemetery comes with flocks of crows eating the acorns.
Banking district with loads of money temples from different periods. I stuck to the prettier ones and left out the glass monsters.
There is a huge area between the buildings, deserted, of course, full of old plane trees and benches I can't imagine anyone ever sitting on.
This is the ugliest building I have ever seen.
An art gallery, or rather a house of arts. For some reason someone must have thought that a great big chandelier in the street would look good.
The lions in front of the door are obviously also unhappy with the chandelier thing.
The opera. Someone felt the need to add a big red flag that says "Opera!" for the confused.
Street across the opera.
The Michaelis church - it's around the corner from our place and beautiful. I can't wait to see it from the inside, there was a storytelling event going on in there when we were in the area.
Really pretty house across the church.
Inneres Aegidientor. It used to be a gate to the town in the fourteenth century but was rebuilt later, obviously.
I love the gables and the images.
Aegidienkirche, which is probably me favourite church in Hannover, even though it's a war memorial now. I love that there is no roof and the building simply opens up into the sky, I'd love to attend a service in that church.
And some pictures from the inner city that don't really fit into any category.
Sorry about the length and the amount of pictures, this is probably more TMI than anything else.
