Neustädter Kirche, Hanover
The New Town Church (german: Neustädter Kirche, italic=unset) is a main Lutheranism, Lutheran parish church in Hanover, Germany. Its official name is St. John's Church of the court and city in the New Town at Hanover (). The Baroque architecture, Baroque church was built in 1666–70 and is one of the oldest Protestant aisleless churches () in Lower Saxony, conceived for the sermon as the main act of the Divine Service (Lutheran), Lutheran church service. Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Field Marshal Charles Alten, Carl August von Alten are buried here. The church is known for its church music, performed in service and concert by St. John's chorale (), and serves as a venue for concerts, for example in the context of the Expo 2000 and the German Evangelical Church Assembly (). In collaboration with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, an organ called Spanish organ that reflects principles of Sp ...
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Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has approximately 1.16 million inhabitants (2019). The city lies at the confluence of the River Leine and its tributary the Ihme, in the south of the North German Plain, and is the largest city in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. It is the fifth-largest city in the Low German dialect area after Hamburg, Dortmund, Essen and Bremen. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hannover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hannover ...
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