Historic half-timbered backdrop

The historic half-timbered buildings of the old town are among the special sights of the city and decorate the good parlor of the city. Here visitors to Hannover can breathe a breath of city history. Hanover once had a large old town center with half-timbered houses and narrow streets, some of which date back to the Middle Ages. The firestorms of World War II, however, left no more than forty houses of the historic old town. Twelve of these were located in the area of Knochenhauerstrasse, Kramerstrasse and Burgstrasse alone. At the end of the 1950s, it was decided to demolish the remaining half-timbered houses scattered around the town and move them there. This created an old town quarter around the Marktkirche and the Altes Rathaus, which, as a historic island, gives a good impression of what Hannover's old town once looked like. Kramerstrasse is also one of the city's most popular shopping and strolling streets.