Altes Rathaus, Hanover

The Altes Rathaus was the first town hall in the German city of Hanover. First built in the old city district in 1410 and extensively restored in 1953 and 1964 after heavy bomb damage in World War II, it is the oldest secular building in the city. The market façade with the highly sophisticated Brick Gothic of the lucarnes has been preserved and partly restored in its medeval shape. Some elements of it were copied on other wings of the building.

The most medieval wing tawards the market place and a corner of the "Venetian" 19th century wing on the south side

The most recent part of the building on Karmarschstraße.

Bibliography (in German)

• Conrad Wilhelm Hase. Baumeister des Historismus. Ausstellungskatalog. Historisches Museum Hannover 1968. Seite 24-26: Restaurierung 1877–1891.
• Helmut Knocke: Altes Rathaus, in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, S. 21f.
• Arnold Nöldeke: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Bd. 1, H. 2, Teil 1: Denkmäler des "alten" Stadtgebietes Hannover, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, S. 345–369 (Digitalisat im Internet Archive); Neudruck im Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1.
• Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Rathaus, in: Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.): Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, Stadt Hannover, Teil 1, Band 10.1. ISBN 3-528-06203-7, S. 54ff.