Celle Tourist Attractions

The Celle Schloss, built partly in the Late Gothic period and partly in the Baroque style of the second half of the 17th century, was the residence of the Dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg from 1292 to 1866. It has fine state apartments and the oldest court theater in Germany (1674); the chapel has a sumptuous Renaissance interior.

To the north of the Palace in Celle is the Provincial Supreme Court.

The Bomann Museum in Celle has a rich collection of material on the history of Hannover, including a Lower Saxon farmhouse of 1571.

Kloster Wienhausen, 10km/6mi southeast of Celle, was once a former Cistercian nunnery (13th-14th C.), and is now a Protestant house of retreat for women (nuns' choir; 14th C. wall and ceiling paintings and a Holy Sepulchre of 1445; famous 14th and 15th C. tapestries, shown only once a year at Whitsun).

Celle's old town, with its picturesque half-timbered streets and lanes, lies to the east of the palace. Particularly fine is Kalandgasse, with the old Latin School. At its south end is the Stechbahn, once the scene of knightly tournaments.

The Town Church (14th and 17th C.) in Celle's Markt has epitaphs and grave slabs of the last Dukes of Celle and a princely burial vault (tomb of the Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde, d. 1775).

The Town Hall in Celle is in Late Renaissance style (1530-81).

Hoppener-Haus in Celle's old town was built in 1532.

Stechinelli-Haus in Celle's old town was built in the 17th C.

Straddling the river Fuhse in Celle is the Provincial Stud Farm, founded in 1735 by the Elector of Hannover, who was also George II of Britain (breeding of stallions; stallion parades in autumn).