Letters from Hannover

Hello again, Today I will invite you for part 3 of our fountain sightseeing tour. The walk is leading us to different places at the outskirts of Hannover. After the 2nd World War, expellees from Silesia (now Poland) came to Hannover to find a new home here. Flats for these people were built in Hannover-Mittelfeld, many streets get names of towns from Silesia. In the biggest mountain of Silesia, the Riesengebirge (Giant's mountains), lived the legendary giant "Rübezahl". He was the keeper of the mountains, the nature and the people. In memory of Silesia 1954 the "Rübezahl" was created by Kurt...

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Dear friends in Bristol, Part 2 of our fountains sightseeing tour will start at the old market place between Old Townhall and Marktkirche. The Marktbrunnen was designed by one of the most famous architekts of Hannover, Conrad Wilhelm Hase. The figures on the top of the fountain shows two marketwives. One of them has a watering can in her hand, she was trading with flowers. The other maid with the fish is a colleague of Sweet Molly Malone from Dublin, the wellknown fishmonger with her own song. Only a few steps away we are reaching the Ballhofbrunnen, it is an "Aquamobile". Three hollowballs...

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Happy Christmas and a better New Year from Hans of Hannover!

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Dear friends in Bristol, With this letter I will take you on a sightseeing tour to Hannover’s fountains. This is to maintain the Hannover-Bristol connection in these bad times. I hope you will enjoy the article and you will get an appetite to visit the fountains during your next stay in Hannover. First I will introduce you fountains in Hannover’s City Centre, maybe you know them from a visit in Hannover. Let’s start with the Leafs(Blätter)- or Cimiotti-Fountain. Emil Cimiotti created this bronze fountain with different leafs. The water comes out of four wells on the top of the fountain....

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Dear friends, in these bad days it is not possible to meet friends, but memories can't be stopped by any troubles. I send you photos of things which remind me every day of my wonderful times in Bristol. For those who don't know me, I am the cyclist from Hannover who visited Bristol four times by bicycle (1987, 1997, 2003 and 2007). At first you see my yellow shirt from 1997, I wear it still today when I make little cycling trips near Hannover. This bottle of beer I transported on my first trip to Bristol and another bottle I shared with Lord Mayor Marmeduke Elderson when I reached the Bristol...

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