**** "PICS OF BRAUNSCHWEIG, HANNOVER', THE CITY OF WELF-D'ESTE. ITS ARTS AND CULTURE. ****

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*** “A VISIT TO THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL CORE AREA AND THE CRADLE OF THE HOUSE OF WELF-D’ESTE IN GERMANY.” ***
* “Die Stadt der Welfen.” *
* “Brraunschweig's location is optimal - geographically, culturally and economically. Guelph Duke Henry the Lion probably already recognized this when he founded his residence 1,000 years ago. His lion is the symbol of the 'City of the Guelphs'.” *
* “The history of the city is closely linked to the history of the Guelph Dukes of the House of d'Este until the 20th Century. When Henry the Lion founded the settlement on the Oker from 1160 AD. the city of Braunschweig began to flourish. The Duke of Bavaria and Saxony built his ‘Dankwarderode Castle’, which is reminiscent of the splendor of royal imperial palaces. As a sign of his secular, almighty rule, he had around 1166 AD. placed a lion sculpture on the castle square.” *
* ‘NEO-RENAISSANCE’.
* “Did you know that the 19th Century had a 'Neo-Remaissance? The northern German city of Braunschweig or Brunswick was one of the most prominent exponents of this ‘Neo-Renaissance’ at that time. Just as the noble Lombardian family of Welf-d'Este or Fulco-d'Este centuries earlier were considered the main representatives of successively the 15th century ‘Renaissance’ and the 18th century ‘Enlightenment’, especially in Northern Italy, so was the House of Hanover, a younger branch of Fulco-d'Este, the most important propagator of the 'Neo-Renaissance' in Northern Germany in the 19th century.” *
* RENAISSANCE REVIVAL & GOTHIC REVIVAL.
- Neo-Renaissance or 'Italianate style' ('Weser Renaissance' and Early English Renaissance) with High Baroque and Roccoco style elements.
- Neo-Gothic (early Victorian, English 'Perpendicular' or 'Gothic Revival Style') and German 'Sondergotik') with Early Renaissance and Neoclassicism style elements.
* Both art movements, the 'Italianate Style' and 'Gothic Revival Style' flourished in the Electorate/Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg (since 1814 Kingdom of Hanover) in Germany and the United Kingdom of Great-Britain and Ireland, both ruled by the House of Hanover, a younger branch of Welf-d'Este or Fulco d'Este.
*** “AN DER MARTINIKIRCHE 4.” ***
- Braunschweig-Innenstadt, Lower Saxony, Germany.
* Bankhaus Löbbecke & Co./ Löwen Tresor, built in its current state in 1892. Earliest construction dates from 1763.
WESER RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE - TRIUMPHAL RENAISSANCE-BAROQUE AS AN EXPRESSION OF WEALTH AND STATUS.
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*** “GUELPHS OR WELFS MUST VISIT THIS CITY IN HANNOVER AS A KIND OF PILGRIMAGE, EVEN IF IT IS ONCE IN THEIR LIVES. BRAUNSCHWEIG, ALSO KNOWN AS 'CITY OF LIONS' IS ALSO THE 'CITY OF GUELPHS' IN GERMANY. CULTURAL HISTORICAL AND AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR THOSE WHO LOVE ARTS AND SCIENCES!” ***
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