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and contain many significant period garden buildings. The gardens were reinstated following major damage in World War II, and became an important leisure resource for the city of Hanover, with new additions including an aquarium.
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The ruins of the palace were almost completely torn down after the war; the outside staircase once leading up to the entrance was salvaged from the debris and moved next to the Orangerie building where it can be seen today.
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After World War II the remains of George I of Great Britain, along with those of his parents, were removed from the chapel of Leine Palace in Hanover and reinterred in the 19th-century Guelph mausoleum
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Originally a manor house of 1640, the building was enlarged in phases from 1676, and served as a summer retreat, located only a few kilometers outside the city from the central
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received the plot and sponsored the reconstruction. Following extensive restoration work, the palace was reopened on 18 January 2013 in a ceremony attended by
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The palace's extensive gardens extending beyond the original Great Garden are an important example of baroque and later
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commissioned the French gardener Martin Charbonnier to enlarge the garden in the manner of
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and reconstructed between 2009 and 2013. Today it houses a museum, a division of the
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was born in Herrenhausen Palace in 1683. Three of his daughters were born there:
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In 2009, the city of Hanover took the decision to rebuild the palace. The
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The reconstructed baroque palace houses the Herrenhausen Palace Museum (
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Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy, Revised edition
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Hannover Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon. Handbuch und Stadtführer.
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oversaw the development of the estate in the late 1600s.
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Museum Schloss Herrenhausen



The Palace Gardens


House of Hanover
Herrenhausen
Hanover
Herrenhausen Gardens
Sophia of Hanover
Royal Air Force
World War II
Historisches Museum Hannover
Leine Palace
Sophia of Hanover
Versailles
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
George Louis
water features
George II of Great Britain
George III
Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves
World War II
bombing raid
Royal Air Force
Ernest Augustus of Hanover
Herrenhausen Gardens
August of Hanover

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