# Waterloo Column

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/hannover/spot/waterloosaeule/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Waterloo Column, a spot in Hanover with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Hanover](https://mytuur.com/en/city/hannover/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Waterloosule_67ea82845015e57639643e5c_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloo_H_column_texts_3.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Waterloosule_67ea82845015e57639643e5c_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloosäule_nachts_Schnee.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Waterloosule_67ea82845015e57639643e5c_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012-09-15_155316_Hannover_Waterloosäule.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Waterloosule_67ea82845015e57639643e5c_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloosäule_Hannover_Spaßguerilla-Aktion_2014_mit_Fahne.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Waterloosule_67ea82845015e57639643e5c_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waterloosäule_2009.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Hanover. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.