Leineschloss
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The Leine Palace, situated on the Leine in Hanover, Germany, is a former residence of the Hanoverian dukes, electors and kings. It is now the seat of the parliament of Lower Saxony.
Main entrance
Leine river frontage
The late-renaissance palace (former Franciscan friary), before the neoclassical renovation of 1816
Principality of Calenberg
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The Principality of Calenberg was a dynastic division of the Welf Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg established in 1432. Calenberg was ruled by the House of Hanover from 1635 onwards; the princes received t
Schloss und Ampt Calenberg, engraving by Caspar Merian (1654)
Coat of arms of the Calenberg-Grubenhagensche Landschaft on a building in Göttingen
The remains of Calenberg Castle. Here, the battery tower at the main entrance
Calenberg Castle in 1654