Leineschloss

Mitte, Germany

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Leine Palace, situated on the Leine River in Hanover, Germany, is a former royal residence transformed into the seat of Lower Saxony's parliament. Its site was originally occupied by a Franciscan friary built around 1300, which was converted into a late-Renaissance palace beginning in 1636 by George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. The structure was enlarged and modernized in the late seventeenth century by Elector Ernest Augustus, who added a theatre. Between 1816 and 1844, architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves undertook a comprehensive rebuilding in the Neoclassical style, introducing the distinctive column portico with six Corinthian columns that characterizes the structure today. Severely damaged by fire during Allied bombing in World War II, the palace was reconstructed between 1957 and 1962 by architect Dieter Oesterlen. The building served as the primary royal residence for two Hanoverian monarchs, Ernest Augustus and George V, between 1837 and 1866, and now houses the Lower Saxony Landtag.