In the New Town Hall - for many tourists the Hanover Castle - it is not the nobility that rules, but the Lord Mayor
At night, the abandonment of the pedestrian passage below the main station between Kröpcke and Raschplatz becomes clear
The 2.4 km long Maschsee is located in the middle of the city of Hanover
The newly built historic palace and the "Great Parterre" of the Great Garden in Herrenhausen
Over a length of 2 kilometers (and 1,300 imperial lime trees), the Herrenhäuser Allee connects the Great Garden with Königsworther Platz
The "Rainforest House" in the Berggarten, which was inaugurated for EXPO2000, now houses a marine aquarium
Classic view over the old town, market church and new town hall to the Maschsee lake
View over the "Rainforest House" built for the EXPO in the Berggarten across the linden avenue of the Georgengarten to the city center
Here the Ihme (doped by the Leine water from the Schnellen Graben) flows proudly through Linden
Lichtenbergplatz in Linden, which was created during the Wilhelminian era: Hanover's most beautiful square
The Ihmezentrum in Linden is a child of the 1970s - brutalism was an architectural style and building height program
The three 125-metre-high chimneys of the Linden combined heat and power plant have become a landmark of the district
From a height of two kilometers, Hanover lies spread out as if on a platter and you can clearly see the "green tongues"
The University of Music (with its ear-shaped floor plan) is located between Oststadt and the zoo quarter in the Eilenriede district
View across Lindenallee in Georgengarten over Leibniz University (originally planned as a "royal palace") to Nordstadt
The Great Parterre and water basin in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen
The Leibniz Temple is a jewel in the Georgengarten at Herrenhausen, which was laid out in the style of English landscape gardens
Surprisingly restrained for the space it offers: the glass architectural sculpture of Nord/LB am Aegi
In January 2009, the Maschsee was once again completely frozen over
For a few days, the frozen Maschsee was the most popular excursion destination
The Ricklinger Kiesteichen, also known as the Ricklinger Seenplatte, were once used to mine gravel for the construction industry
Huge glass waves span the 380-meter-long glass architectural sculpture of Finanz IT
The Niedersachsenstadion was built in 1952 on the rubble of the Second World War
At night, Hanover becomes a diva, when the gray of the flat roofs recedes behind the light of her evening dress
January 2010 was another winter wonderland in Hanover - with the "castle", the New Town Hall, right in the middle of it all
The 2.4 km long Maschsee lake in the middle of the city is actively used as a local recreation area and for water sports
South of Neustadt am Rübenberge, the Leine meanders beautifully on its way to the Aller river
The heart of the exhibition grounds is the Convention Center, around which the most important of the huge exhibition halls are grouped
From the air, the design idea of Prof. Madjid Samii's International Neuroscience Institute (INI) becomes clear: modeled on the human brain
At that time, the 220 wind turbines in the region generated 15 % of private electricity consumption in 2009
Morning atmosphere with tree avenue and wind turbines south of Hanover
The "Wilhelmstein" fortress was put into operation in 1765 as an island fortress and military academy
It is flat, the Steinhuder Meer - but 5,000 inland sailing boats are moored here at countless jetties, here near Mardorf
The Hindenburg lock was inaugurated in 1928 as the most modern lock in the world
Starting at Lister Platz, Podbielskistraße is a main artery along the Eilenriede, here in the foreground the Bahlsen factories
Allotment gardens: In Hanover, 21,000 tenants are organized in 99 allotment garden associations, only Leipzig has more
Living in Hanover couldn't be greener: Layers of grass nestle over the 72 wooden houses of the Grashaussiedlung in Lahe
The maze in the Great Garden was laid out according to plans from 1673
View over the northern shore of the Maschsee with the Sprengel Museum to the city center of Hanover
The New Town Hall and Maschsee - not an aerial view, but photographed from the tower of the market church
Due to the widening of the canal for the EXPO, numerous bridges were also built, such as the Podbi Bridge
View from a height of 2 km over the green state capital - a city on the water and in the countryside
Most of the aerial shots in this series were taken from the back of an MT03 gyrocopter (Photo: Frank Schinski)

Sky above Hanover (2009)

After numerous photo books taken from a walking perspective, the photographer has taken to the skies with his camera and approaches the "most beautiful city" from above. An overview brings clarity, spatial structures become clearer from above. From the cloud perspective over Hanover, the quality and quantity of urban greenery are also unmistakable, unique for a city of half a million inhabitants. But the architectural sins of the post-war period also catch the eye. He has also discovered an almost unbeatable aircraft for aerial photography: the open ultralight gyrocopters produced in nearby Hildesheim, which he now uses as a motorized "high seat". This resulted in new, surprising and sometimes heavenly perspectives of Hanover and its surroundings. The book was published by KaJo-Verlag in 2009.