7 Things We Love About Hannover, Germany 🇩🇪 Germany's Most Boring City 

Hannover is a total Underdog City! But with the best zoo in Germany and the Herrenhäuser Gardens with all the pretty nice festivals!

Plus, the german that is spoken in Hannover is pretty much accent free - much easier to understand than anywhere else in Germany! ;-)

i am born and raised in hannover and from what i have experianced it is one of the best cities to live in in europe. not too small, not too big, not flooded by tourists. tons of culture, subculture, history, music and lifestyle for all ages. What makes living in Hannover so attractive is how green and spread the city is. Green is not only around the city but everywhere in it. Huge parks, a forest 2 times the size of central park, multiple lakes, alleys with trees and many more smaller parks makes it easy to feel more in a calm big village than a city of half a million inhabitants. The different quaters of the city are also very divers. You where only showing the tourist hotspots. but wait until you discovered Linden, List, Nordstadt or Suedstadt for yourself. Hannover is about a perfect quality of life. Where you have everything you need and wish near by while also being able to escape the stress of your daily life without needing to leave the city. I don't know too many citys very well. but I live in NL for 8 years now and i can tell you none of the dutch cities is getting close to what you get in hannover. Not Amsterdam, Not Utrecht, Not Rotterdam nor The Hague. And in Germany i know Leipzig, Berlin, Koeln, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bremen quite well and from those i would still prefer Hannover. (While Hamburg and Leipzig are also pretty nice!)

Real hannover native here living in los angeles. Love the video make my heart heavy :) Thank you for this great presentation. Michael

1. Aldstadt, (partially rebuilt) Oldtown 2. Maschsee, huge lake near the center 3. great Transportation with Bus, Tram, Train, Bike 4. people's passion for Hannover 96 soccer team 5. welcoming, friendly people 6. Eilenriede city forest (2x central park, Hannover in general being one of the greenest cities in Europe) 7. Biergartens

one of the Biggest "forest in a city" In Europe. twice as big as the central park. Ellenriede. I moved here from Switzerland (!) and I love it

Hannover might not be the most interesting city for a Tourist, but it think provides a great life quality. Also neat is that Hannover is close to the center of germany and many major Autobahns and high-speed train connection run trough Hannover, so you can get pretty much anywhere in Germany very fast. Hamburg and Berlin 1.5h via train, Munich 4h via train.

I am from New Zealand and in October last year while on holiday visiting my sister and her husband who were living in London, England at the time, we came over to Germany to see both Berlin and Hannover. We stayed two nights in Hannover and walked around the city exploring before attending the Hannover 96 vs Karlsruher FC 2. Bundesliga game on that weekend. That was an eye-opening experience in itself and the local team won the game 1-0. I also picked up a replica home jersey from a fan shop inside the stadium grounds. I enjoyed my time in the city however fleeting it was.

Such a beautiful tribute to my Hometown! Thank you so much😊

i have born and raised in hannover. its not boring at all. its just that hannover is a city with no scandals that are pushed in the media and so on. hannover is well known for its community arround music (scorpions are from hannover). there are so much acrivities you can do in and arround the town. you really like to have a town every day in the news ? i am sure you will discover all the secret gems hannover has to offer. and you should continue to make content about that . maybe it will be an eye opener for some ppl that find the town boring ^^ greetings

About a year or so living here! Great city, with a lot of potential! It's like a big/little city, you have everything u need, without being overwhelmed! The only downsides are the weather (natürlich) and the junkies. But still, the capital of Hochdeutsch has more pros than cons!

Do not miss out on the international fireworks competition in mid September! It is located in the baroque Herrenhäuser Gärten. If you cannot get a ticket, just do as many Hannoverans do, grab a bottle of beer, whine or bubbly and a picknick-blanket and watch from the bank of the moat surrounding the gardens. Life cannot get any better than that.

How helpful and thoughtful this video was did not go unnoticed by me. I have been binging the Hannover videos on YT and this is, by far, the best one. Good job

Welcome to Hanover and thank you for sharing your positive impression of our beautiful, green city with your video. All the best, Natascha from the intercultural cooking project GRENZENLOS 😊

I am really moved how excited and thankfull you embrace your new home. And the forest and the bike trails are really beautiful. Viele liebe Grüße!

Danke ! Ich bin Hannoveraner und liebe diese Stadt!

I love this kind of video , sharing with the city's life style. Danke schön!

Having spent a year as an exchange student near Kansas City MO, I sometimes tell Americans that Hanover is the Kansas City of Germany. Think about it. A fairly generic big city in the middle of a rural state that nobody really gets excited about. But Hanover must be something right, because I've lived here most of my life and can't say I regret it 😉 Minor footnote - downtown Hanover was destroyed 90 percent, but "only" 60 to 70 percent of it beyond repair so that they erected completely new buildings in place of the old ones. A lot of buildings that were salvageable were restored after the war.

I was born in Hannover and still got some family there. Nice to see, that you like it so much.

Moved to the Us after living in Hannover my whole life. I really miss Hannover

Great video dude! Was also great to meet you in person with Eric der Ami. Had a bit of a hospital mishap, so the release of our video is slightly delayed. Can’t wait to more of your videos!!

Welcome to Hannover! Great to have you guys here! If I'm gonna see u here, I will definitely come to say hello😁

Addimg this city to my list to visit, thanks for sharing all your thoughts.

Thanks for this wonderful video. The people in Hannover are not „cold“ or dismissive at all. Once we make friends this can absolutely be for a lifetime. I am a „Hannoveraner“ who lived in some other cities but nothing compares to my hometown. I love nearly every brick of this fantastic town (was that too much?). But honestly, there are so many things to learn and discover in this city, it will not be boring. Even the history of Hannover, for example the connection to the english crown, is absolutely interesting, or the world famous „Cebit“, the computer fair. The list goes on and on… Enjoy your time in Hannover and as always: whatever you wanna know, just ask me.

In terms of geography (climate, landscape, demographics) Hannover seems a lot more similar to a midwestern city in the U.S. with a European touch. Glad you found a new home.. Also, wow, this channel is gonna blow up! I just think Spanish people don't speak English like Germans do. This is encouraging to see! P.S.. all your vlogs are super high quality!

I came back from a 3 day city trip in Hannover yesterday. Had no idea people thought it was the most boring city in Germany, but I had a blast. There's so much to do there, I didn't even have enough time. I can highly recommend going there.

Thank You so much for sharing this video I would like to spend some quality time in Hannover on one of my future trips. I would love to find the trails n the woods :) !!

Hannover has so much to offer. Old town, zoo, Herrenhäuser Garten, Parks, Maschsee, Rathaus, Eilenriede wild forest, great public transportation, bikes and scooters for rent, the university, Ernst-August-Galerie, several museums, lakes, rivers, awesome Restaurants, many concerts and events all over the year, Soccer, Stadium, Expo Plaza, Breweries,..... And so on. 😉 But there are also some dangerous f'ed up no-go areas.

You've sold me on it! Can't wait to visit! Prost🍻

So glad you guys found a new home you love 💕

riding a bike gives you a feeling of freedom in the city and surrounding countryside

Hannover was one of the first cities in what was then West Germany that I visited in my life, closely following on from the first, which had been Bremen, during a pioneering schools' exchange visit between Belper High School and the Hindenburgsschule, Nienburg/Weser, in the course of which I celebrated my Seventeenth Birthday, way back in July 1978. I returned there, briefly, nine years later in the dying days of those two Germanys during a week and a bit, travelling around the rail network of West Germany and then, again, while studying Geography with German as a mature undergraduate in the mid-1990s, during an unfortunately very short and unsuccessful period of working with a bus company in nearby Hildesheim, when I lived in the suburb of Leinhausen for not much over a week. So, I certainly think that it's one of the more INTERESTING cities in Germany, despite that rather regrettable experience! Thank you, therefore, for this uploading. I would question your description of a 'cathedral' in the city, however. You probably mean the red-brick Marktkirche, which is, granted, of cathedral-like dimensions, but it still isn't a 'cathedral', as such. A few months before my brief, wintry, sojourn in Leinhausen I had been, also as part of my studies, working on an archaeological dig in my home city of Derby's twin city of Osnabrück - a rather more successful stay, despite a nearly record-breaking heatwave! - and during the weekends I would very often take off on a 'Schönes Wochenende' rail ticket, the first journey and last journey of the day usually being between Hannover and Osnabrück, so that's my other personal connection with the city. I hope you continue to enjoy your stay in Hannover...and continue to find it interesting! Oh finally, it's a pity for you, given your obvious affection for them, that Hannover wasn't the very first city in (West) Germany I visited, since I based my choice of what German football club to 'adopt' on my first contact, so that turned out to be Werder Bremen rather than Hannover 96, which, for a city with Hannover's population, is something of an under-achiever.

Other important places to visit: Linden Market on Saturday "Strandleben" in Calanberger Neustadt (a small beach bar in the City) Bus lines 100 and 200 are virtually unmoderated sightseeing tours for the normal fare. Still under construction is the Leine Welle (surf spot near the Lower Saxony state parliament).

Hallo. I am a Filipino working here in Hannover as a Pflegehilfskraft for 4 months now. Hope to meet more friendly Germans here to improve my Sprache. 😊

Nice, thanks!

In Winter we have some beautiful christmas markets all over the city. You can go to the famous holländische kakaostube for delicious hot chocolate and cake. In seelze- not far by tram there is a Therme. Downtown Karaoke is amazing. And we have the oktoberfest 3 times a year.

Just think about it. If Hannover is the most boring city of Germany, then how amazing and exciting is the rest of Germany! 😀 Regarding the friendliness, especially in the north. There is a German saying, like you shout into the forest, so it shouts back, in the sense of what goes around, comes around. I'm from the Rhine, so, supposedly open-minded, extroverted and so on. I've been living in the north for almost 30 years now, and I've never had any problems to connect to people here. If you don't come up as pretentious and arrogant but as friendly and interested in the locals instead, people are as friendly as anywhere else. From Hannover, it's not that far to the Harz mountain range. The highest mountain is 1100 m high, the Brocken, and is beautiful especially in the winter, but not only then. It's as much nature as you like, and it has a harsh climate with high winds and snowstorms at times, but it also has a railroad network with actual on-duty steam engines, the only one in Europe, I think. It's a steam engine paradise. Aside from that, the government has announced today they wanted to extend the 9 Euroe ticket, meaning, you can get a national train ticket for regional and local transport from next year on. This has to be negotiated with the federal states, but it his highly probable that there will be something like that. The price, though, is estimated to be between 49 and 69 Euros, which is considerably more money, but still. For new arrivals like you, this could be a great opportunity to get to know a lot of new places. Actually, I think the effect is much more touristy than what the 9 Euro ticket was meant to be, an incentive to get commuters from the road into the trains. But it's at least a step forward. Could be that at least it attracts tourists which would also be good for the economy... Take care!

We have great wildlife even in the city, river Leine is awesome for fishing!

I have a restaurant in (Region) Hannover and I‘m so happy to see that youhave such good experience with the city

It looks stunning. Glad you’re happy there. 🍻

Never thought, someone would do a vlog about Hanover :D

Aaaah glad seeing my hometown like this ^^

As your last video was about a Tapas Tour: you can do that in Hannover. There's a large spanish community in Hannover.

I live in Hannover as well and I am exploring your videos after two years of staying here

Don’t forget the „Maschseefest“ ohne of the largest Summer Open Air Party in Germany!

The kindest person I’ve met in from Hannover. Saying he Is the kindest possibly definitely and understatement and the back ground to this is that I’m a mixed race person and have be warmed about the difficultly of formatting relationships and my story is possibly different to those stereotypes because in general my greatest experience of hope, live, acceptance has been with Germans from various parts of the country. My statement is obviously subjective to my experiences but I hope it is the same for many others travelling through this amazing country and meeting its people

Living in Salzburg for 3 years and miss Hannover so much😔..the List, Eilenriede and the Bult, Maschsee, Herrenhäuser Gärten

Check out the fleamarket of Hannover! All year round, every saturday, on the banks of river Leine.

You should go to the limmerstrasse in the bar „fischers“….

If you are looking for more information visit a public library, we've got 16 in Hannover. And try to get tickets for "Das kleine Fest im großen Garten", it's great.

Go to the old town at 8am this Saturday. All Hannover football fans meet there to march to the stadium together as we have our big derby against Braunschweig that day!

It's also got Germany's largest city wood. The Eilenriede. And a very large pedestrian area.

Very interesting! Regarding bikes, places like Madison(US) or Bilbao(Spain) are becoming bike friendly as well :)

you forgot to mention the Mittellandkanal. Great spot in summer

You did a great Job, and im happy you have a good time. I live in Hannover my whole life and dont want to leave it. If you have questions, just go ahead and ask me😄👍

Visited a couple a weeks ago from Jersey C.I via Düsseldorf then Berlin after Hanover and Hannover was amazing don’t know what people are on about

get down the fest platz and give us a few videos of the festivals that happen there through the year, biggest mobile fair in europe!!!

the Maschsee is pronounced Mush-see.. Hildesheim and Braunschweig are close cities too. great to visit.

Hannover is the one of the greenest, maybe the greenest major city in Europe. The best thing of Hannover is the fact that it got a real City-center. Not 2 or more, just one. It's an advantage that Hannover is not as big as Hamburg, Cologne or Frankfurt. AFAIK Hannover got the oldest continously held flea-market on the continent and it's the Jazz-Capital of northern Germany with many venues throughout the year. One of the two left and revived true baroque gardens in Germany is located in Herrenhausen, a district of Hannover. The belonging castle, that was destroyed in WW2, was rebuilt a few years ago. And it's perfectly located in the right distances to the coastal parts of Germany and the mid-german mountain-ranges like the Harz or the Thuringian Forest.

On Saturday Hannover is playing against Braunschweig wich is also a city in the same „state“ and that game is really intense and is their Derby! You should check that out…the atmosphere is really intense!

Hi guys! 👋 love your videos keep them coming, we foundation you and your wife's channel through the living in spain videos and they have helped us very much. We wanted to ask if it's not to personal, how much money do you need to live in spain? It would be my grandmother, my mother and I (23 years old) I would be the one working to keep us afloat

Hannover is a great place to study and live, being not well known to foreigners (except the British Royal family who are, for a major part, descendants of the Hannover King) not necessarily being a bad thing.

Hannover and mid Wisconsin are not so different compared to much of the US. I am currently writing this from Steven’s Point WI. There is a heavy German population here so it does not make for a huge difference.i lived in the Nordstadt of Hannover so I am pretty versed on both. Viel Dank und herzlichen wünsche in Hannover! Herrenhauser Gartens, Sealife, Neues Rathaus. Hannover gibt vielen Sehensverdigkeiten

Go to Cafe K and explore Linden!

Funfact: Hanover is actually the third most dangerous German City. Its interesting whats considered as dangerous in germany ;) Another funfact: Hanover and its surroundings are not really North Germany. They are definitly in the Northern Part but they are not "North Germany"

It USED to be boring! I think that’s just a legacy or false reputation that it maybe hasn’t thrown off from the past…..but it certainly isn’t now. Places change. I used to spend every summer there visiting from London in the 1960s and 70s and it was a bit ‘sleepy’ then. But now, it’s completely changed! Almost beyond recognition! It’s so much more cosmopolitan. I now spend about half my time between Hannover and the UK and I find it much more interesting and dynamic than being in the UK. So much so that now at the age of 60 I’m intending to move there permanently!

The best of Hannover is Georgengarten, Eilenriede und Maschsee.

You are so right. I love this small City!

Welcome to my hometown ❤️

Have you discovered any gnomes while roaming around the city or the parks?

Nice video. Have you ever been in germany before? Because your German skills are quiet 👍👍 Greetings from Koblenz.

I am working on learning German prior to visiting, do you feel it is helpful to know the language?

Hannover got potential but I think there is still a lot of work to do to make it a really beautiful capital city, there are some places where you really could smell things you wouldn't like to smell due to the old sewers which are still as small as they used to be ages ago. In the middle of summer inside of a smaller park. The Houses are uneven from time to time like the streets due to the bombing which took place in second World War. The Parks are really dark and dodgy in the middle of the night. As a resident you only have limited parking places infront of your home and inside of your neighborhood. The parks were quite dirty 4 years ago you could find tissues inside of those damn smaller bushes, bottles and leaves inside of those small lakes, inluding broken down trees and branches. I don't know if the major of Hannover from the green party worked on it and cleaned it but that was really devistating before.

I am struggling to find an apartment in Hannover. I called but no one seemed to care to answer 😕 And the city is not also clean to be honest

Not a boring city by any mean, I have lived in many cities and find Hannover better than other big cities because this city has everything including peace. Everything is at walking distance in the city center, it has medieval charm in old city center area with lots of pubs and cafes. And it is not expensive plus people are great too.

Been living here for the best part of me life, comin from Liverpool originally, it's the best city for life quality in Germany. Nowhere in Germany you'll find so many recreational hotspots like parks, museums, the new town hall, royal gardens, fireworks and fairs, a forest and a lake considerably close to the city centre like here. And close to Hanover you've got Steinhuder Meer and Deister forest, each only 30 mins away on public transport. People are warm and welcomin, you've got great beer, decent food, lovely irish and english as well as local pubs, people from all over the world who brought their culture and food with them as you'll see all over Ahbergviertel(Spain) Linden and Steintor(Turkey and Middle East) and Altstadt (Asia, Africa). Sure, it's not Berlin. But that is it's biggest trump. You can get from one end of the city to the other by bike in less than an hour. If you've not been, you'll have to put it on yer bucket list for sure.

4:30 jeah thats true for sure. but the thing is it is a diffrent kind of acting cold. more like, leaf me alone but if u say hi i am open to have a smalltalk with you. the cold of the nordern germans are more like a protective mechanism, so dont be shy. ( ps opinion of a north german woman )

I would love to find employment in this city in logistics how is that field

I lived in Hannover for 12 years: Iam English: 1. They are cold : 2.snobby: 3.always looking for trouble( bumping into u at the supermarkets etc 3. Nosey busy bodies. They do speak the best German in the world though.

It looks way more interesting than Dusseldorf!

People always call their own city boring. For me as a german growning up outside a city, is every City over 50k Inhabitants exciting. Hannover has over 500k so it would be incredibly crazy for me. My biggest cities nearby are Ulm and Augsburg both far less than 500k inhabitants. Those people have to experience life outside the big places to understand how good their cities actually are.

How is the cost of energy?

I love Hanover.

If you like the passion for our soccerteam, maybe you'll like the passion we also have for our icehockeyteam ( Pferdeturm).

I forgot to mention Schröder.

I was living, studying and working in Hannover since I had been 10 years old until I had to leave for working in other parts of Germany in 1989 at the age of 36. I really enjoyed living in this city. 😍The Eilenriede forest is situated like a bracket on the eastern parts of the inner city. The Maschsee is a wonderful lake. The Zoo had been my favourite place in those days.😍The big royal gardens in Herrenhausen are really amazing.😍 (Hannover had been a kingdom before the 1860s, Hannover's kings had even been the kings of the UK before queen Victoria.) With my father I visited the football (soccer) matches of Hannover 96 ⚽️ in the 1970s, they still are my favorite team besides that team of my birth town Hildesheim 30 kilometers south of Hannover, also worth a visit. The public transportation network is amazing: in the city center a metro like subway service, in the outskirts it's more a spidernetwork of tramways.🚋 I always wondered why many people say, that this city is boring. Perhaps because they never lived there. In springtime Hannover is host of one of the biggest industrial fairs in the world. Perhaps that's the only time when the city is buzzing. In the rest of the year it is a quiet city. Being underestimated is an advantage, because you really can relax in the beer gardens, the forest, the parks, on the banks of the lake. And, when you ever want to visit something else, Berlin isn't really far away, same as Hamburg, Bremen and the North Sea coast, train rides of perhaps 1 to 2 hours. A bit south are the central hills, the Harz Mountains in the south east, one hour away, famous for skiing in winter (if the winter isn't too warm for snow there, but it's up to 1000 meters elevation, should be fine). Man, your video made my home sickness grow. 😭 Best regards to you, actually from the western parts of Germany not that far from the Belgian border. I hope that you will make more videos about this wonderful city. 😍 I'll watch every one of them for sure Have a nice day and enjoy the time there. 🖐👴

📝🙄 "hannover..." 😎

The stereotype is kind of funny because for some reason it sticks with the city even though the city is much more beautiful and worth living in than most of the other German capitals. 😄 The "hannoveraner" actually also like spreading the stereotype because they like to stay among themselves. 😂

Not to forget The Scorpions come from Hannover.🤘

Im realy proud be hannoverainian

Have you ever heard of the Hannover conspiracy? We people living in Hannover always tell that our city is the most boring city in Germany because we don't want to many people to move here so the prices to rent an apartment and cost of living won't go up. So stop making these videos! 😉

Gibt's das video auch auf deutsch ?

Im born and raised here just run away before it gets too late

Friendly

Hannover ist nicht langweilig

Whoever thinks Hannover would be boring never was in Bielefeld.

Hannover hat einen viel zu schlechten Ruf 😟 Es gibt weit mehr vor als Nachteile

Hannover is known as boring by people who have never been there (or by accident passed through Varenwald).

That's actually Munich

Hanover is not the most boring City of Germany...you have the maschsee, herrenhäuser Gärten or the Eilenriede... Hanover had much more to show...come to us and create your own picture...