Quartier e.V.

The Quartier e.V. occupies the Küchengarten Pavilion, a slender belvedere on the Lindener Berg cemetery in Hanover. Square at the base with a high domed upper floor, it stands among park-like grounds. The association runs exhibitions and events there, centred on the history of Linden, a district with an industrial past.

Johann Paul Heumann built it in the late 1700s as a pleasure house and focal point of the baroque Küchengarten. That garden served the Hanoverian court until Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover in 1866. The garden then dissolved, and the pavilion sheltered workers through the industrial boom that followed. In 1913 the whole structure moved to the cemetery hill. Pilasters and sandstone detailing carried the elegance of the original design through every one of those changes.

Inside, a permanent exhibition shows fossils collected by the geologist and palaeontologist Carl Struckmann. Outside, the park-like hilltop gives you a peaceful retreat in the middle of the city.