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Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode
Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode (; Eastphalian: ''Kerkreoe-Beimeroe-Wülferoe'') is the sixth borough of Hanover. , it has 32,625 inhabitants and consists of the quarters Kirchrode (12,222 inhabitants), Bemerode (19,453 inhabitants) and Wülferode (950 inhabitants). Since 2011, the SPD politician Bernd Rödel is mayor of the borough. Population development The graph shows the population development in the district of Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode since 1 January 2005. Kirchrode The formerly independent village Kirchrode was incorporated in 1907 to Hanover. Today, the district is located in the countryside and, with large plots, villas and upmarket residential character of the upper-middle-class neighborhood. Recreation areas such as the Hermann-Löns-Park and Eilenriede can be reached quickly. In the Tiergarten (park) walkers can observe deer, red deer, roe deer, wild pigs and other small game. The park was created out of a ducal hunting ground. Until the 18th century huntin ...
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Zu Den Heiligen Engeln
Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels) is a Catholic parish and church in Hanover- Kirchrode, Lower Saxony, Germany. The church was built in 1964 on a design by Josef Bieling, and was remodeled in 2014. It is now the parish church of a larger parish, serving the district Kirchrode-Bemerode-Wülferode. It belongs to the deanery of Hanover and the Diocese of Hildesheim. The church is dedicated to the angels. In 1977, the church served for a pilot project by the ZDF for nation-wide regular live broadcasts of services on television. The parish collaborates in ecumenical partnership with Protestant parishes in the neighbourhood. It was certified for ecological awareness and management. History The parish Zu den heiligen Engeln was split off the parish in Kleefeld on 1 July 1964. At that time it had 1,850 members, increasing to 3,400 by 1990. The church was completed in 1964, including a parish hall (''Pfarrheim'') in 1998. Church The church was designed by Josef Bieling, a ...
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Hanover
Hanover ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest 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) and is the largest in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, Hanover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, 17th biggest metropolitan area by GDP in the European Union. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hanover was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg (1636–1692), the Electorate of Hanover (1692–1814), the Kingdom of Hanover (1814–1866), the Province of Hannove ...
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Eastphalian Language
Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (, Eastphalian and Low Saxon: ''ostfälsch Platt''), is a Low German language spoken in southeastern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Geographical extent The language area between the Weser and Elbe rivers stretches from the Lüneburg Heath in the north to the Harz mountain range and Weser Uplands in the south. It comprises the Hanover Region, Brunswick Land, Brunswick and Calenberg Land as well as the Magdeburg Börde, including the cities of Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen and Magdeburg. It roughly corresponds with the historic region of Eastphalia. Classification Eastphalian as a separate dialect was determined by 19th century linguistics, tracing it back to Old Saxon variants spoken in eastern parts of the medieval stem duchy of Duchy of Saxony, Saxony. Towards the Elbe region in the southeast, the language area is increasingly influenced by the High German consonant shift. Features The most promin ...
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Social Democratic Party Of Germany
The Social Democratic Party of Germany ( , SPD ) is a social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the party's leader since the 2019 leadership election together with Lars Klingbeil, who joined her in December 2021. After losing the 2025 federal election, the party is part of the Merz government as the junior coalition partner. The SPD is a member of 12 of the 16 German state governments and is a leading partner in seven of them. The SPD was founded in 1875 from a merger of smaller socialist parties, and grew rapidly after the lifting of Germany's repressive Anti-Socialist Laws in 1890 to become the largest socialist party in Western Europe until 1933. In 1891, it adopted its Marxist-influenced Erfurt Program, though in practice it was moderate and focused on building working-class organizations. In the 1912 federal election, the SPD won 34.8 percent of votes and became the largest party in t ...
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Eilenriede
The (literally 'alder marsh' in German, meaning 'marsh populated with alder trees') is a municipal forest in Hanover, Germany. It is the largest urban city forest in Germany, one of the largest in Europe, and is nearly twice the size of Central Park in New York. The biggest German urban park in the strict sense of the word, however, is the English Garden in Munich. Size comparison In Germany, the Eilenriede is part of a group of inner-city and near-city forest areas, like the Rostock Heath (), the Dresden Heath (), the Frankfurter Stadtwald () and the Berliner Grunewald (). The Eilenriede is around the same size as the Stadtwald in Duisburg () and is nearly twice as large as Central Park () in New York. Location Eilenriede encloses the south of the city roughly in the shape of a mirror-inverted letter 'C', extending about from north to south. Reaching in its southwest to the Masch Lake, the Eilenriede is traversed by a network of of walking, of bicycle, and of ri ...
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Johann Friedrich (Braunschweig-Calenberg)
Johann Friedrich or Joh(an)n Frederick may refer to: * Johann Friedrich (theologian) * Johann Friedrich, Duke of Pomerania *Johann Frederick, Duke of Württemberg *John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony John Frederick I (, 30 June 1503 – 3 March 1554), called the Magnanimous (), was the Elector of Saxony (1532–1547) until he was deprived of this title in the Capitulation of Wittenberg by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He was leading the Sc ..., called Johann Friedrich See also * Johannes Friedrich (other) {{hndis, Friedrich, Johann ...
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Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major Theology, theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism. It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe. The Reformation is usually dated from Martin Luther's publication of the ''Ninety-five Theses'' in 1517, which gave birth to Lutheranism. Prior to Martin Luther and other Protestant Reformers, there were Proto-Protestantism, earlier reform movements within Western Christianity. The end of the Reformation era is disputed among modern scholars. In general, the Reformers argued that justification (theology), justification was sola fide, based on faith in Jesus alone and n ...
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Hanover Stadtbahn
Hanover Stadtbahn is a light urban rail transport (Stadtbahn, ) system in the city of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened on 29 September 1975, gradually replacing the city's tramway () network over the course of the subsequent 25 years. , the Hanover Stadtbahn system has 12 main lines (lines 1–11 and 17), one weekend express night line (line 10E), and two supplemental lines (lines 16 and 18), serving 201 stations (including 19 underground and 124 high-platform stations), operating on of route. The system is run by üstra, which was originally an abbreviation for . In 2007 Hanover Stadtbahn transported 125 million passengers per year. Three types of light rail cars operate on the system: the TW 6000, built from 1974 to 1993, the TW 2000 (the so-called , ), built from 1997 to 1999, and the TW 3000, which was first introduced into A line service in 2015. The system is used extensively, especially during trade shows on the Hanover fairground like CeBIT an ...
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Volunteer Fire Department
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond to emergency calls for long periods of time, and are summoned to the fire station when their services are needed. They are also expected to attend other non-emergency duties as well (training, fundraising, equipment maintenance, etc.). Volunteer firefighters contrast with paid firefighters who work full or part-time and receive a salary. Some volunteer firefighters may be part of a combination fire department that employs both full-time and volunteer firefighters. On-call firefighters who receive some pay for their work are known as call firefighters in the United States, and retained firefighters in the United Kingdom and Ireland. International The earliest firefighting organizations were made up of volunteers. The first large ...
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Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society. Cultural heritage includes cultural property, tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible heritage, intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).Ann Marie Sullivan, Cultural Heritage & New Media: A Future for the Past, 15 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 604 (2016) https://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1392&context=ripl The term is often used in connection with issues relating to the protection of Indigenous intellectual property. The deliberate action of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known ...
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