Hanover main station – travelers from below
The floors of the platforms at Hannover Central Station are partially made of frosted glass in some places. On the platform stairs, for example, you can see train passengers from below.
Album: Hannover
Hanover: streetcar and woman and child
Hannover’s Bahnhofstrasse is a pedestrian zone as it is written in the picture book. And also the station square (forecourt?) is mainly reserved for pedestrians – only now and then a streetcar crosses.
As I walked across the station forecourt, a young man lay across the streetcar tracks. An approaching streetcar stopped briefly. The streetcar remained silent – the people remained silent – nobody complained, nobody shouted. After a few seconds the spook was over, the man got up again and walked a little further. I ‘only’ saw these silent seconds of fright with my own eyes and did not look through the viewfinder of the camera. Therefore there is no picture of the scene here. Instead, I then photographed a woman and a child shot from behind in the back. There I am on the safe side – and keep my Hanover fright seconds all to myself.
Hannover: Bahnhofstraße
The city center of Hannover on an unfriendly February day – it doesn’t get much grayer.
View down Bahnhofstrasse in the direction of the main station. In the foreground the notorious underground row of stores – so the Bahnhofstrasse becomes a two-story pedestrian zone.
Hanover: Marktkirche (‘Market Church’) with pentagram
The Hanover Market Church “Marktkirche St. Georgii et Jacobi” has a pentagram on the steeple – and not only that. If you take a closer look, you will notice all kinds of religious symbols: the clock is framed by a hexagonal star / hexagram (also called David’s shield).
Even if it might be a quite ‘interesting’ thought, but the pentagram on the tower of the Marktkirche has no direct deeper meaning. Only in connection with the other signs on the tower the meaning becomes somewhat clearer. The different symbols are also called signs of life – a web page of the Hannover Church used to explain the different meanings: “Of signs of life and their meaning”. But that page seems to be offline at the moment. However, here is the page about the Marktkirche at Wikipedia.
Hanover: Neues Rathaus
View of the impressive Neues Rathaus (‘New City Hall’) at Maschplatz.