Nordstadt
Formerly the North Town was a worker's district, but for decades Hanover's students have occupied it. The University itself is a ostentatious building designed as a Welfen castle in 1857. But in the streets behind it, the houses are narrow and show traces of the times. A colorful mix of people congregate in student pubs, public meeting places and squats, and the times when punks would scare the older inhabitants off with "chaos days" seem to be over for good.