Hardenbergsches Palais

On the site of the current palace, the residence of the garden artist Martin Charbonnier once stood. Between 1749 and 1751, Johann Paul Heumann erected the building for Friedrich Karl von Hardenberg, then head of court construction and garden affairs. It served simultaneously as an official residence and for overwintering sensitive plants. During the French period, high-ranking French generals such as Édouard Adolphe Mortier and Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, later King of Sweden and Norway, chose the palace as their residence. After the end of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866, the Welfen Museum was established here. During the National Socialist era, the city of Hanover acquired the building, renovated it by 1939, and used it as a registry office, with the garden being reduced in size.