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Südstadt
Borchers has baked in Hannover for 175 years and now runs a multi-award-winning specialty bakery, confectionery and café on Hildesheimer Straße. Bread is still made by hand, and the shop holds its own baking workshops.
Best for Handcrafted bread and cakes
Germany
German casual womenswear label founded in 1989 under CBR Fashion Group (alongside Street One), headquartered in Hannover; sells a casual-sporty collection through several hundred own stores and wholesale across Europe.
Best for Casual womenswear
Cecil is one of the core brands of CBR Fashion Group, a German women's fashion company whose foundations trace to 1980, when Detlev Meyer and Friedhelm Behn began building the business that became CBR. Cecil itself launched in 1989 as the group's second major brand, positioned alongside Street One within a company that grew into one of the fastest-expanding women's clothing groups in Europe.
The brand describes its own focus as a 'casual-sporty collection' built around quality, fit, and durability, with attention paid through the production process from material selection to finishing — an everyday-wear proposition rather than directional fashion. Cecil is headquartered in Hannover (CBR's broader operations have also been linked to Lower Saxony more generally), and the label is sold through a network of roughly 366 retail locations in addition to wholesale distribution, putting it among the more widely distributed casualwear brands on Germany's high streets.
CBR Fashion Group has changed ownership over the years, with private equity investors including Cinven and EQT holding stakes at different points, while Cecil has remained one of its two flagship consumer-facing brands throughout.
Stöcken
Beekeepers Heidrun Bethge and Matthias Winter tend urban hives in Hannover-Stöcken, bottling spring, summer, rapeseed and blossom honeys alongside beeswax and pollen. Honey is sold by appointment, and the pair run tastings and beekeeping seminars.
Best for Urban Hannover honey
Burgdorf (Hannover region)
A small roastery in the Hannover countryside near Burgdorf that drum-roasts specialty coffee in small batches, selling single origins, blends and subscriptions. It also runs barista courses and latte-art workshops for home and trade customers.
Best for Home and trade customers
Hannover / Germany
Pelikan's history in Hannover runs back to 1838, when Carl Hornemann's color and ink works in the city's Hainholz district grew into the company that, under Günther Wagner, patented the piston-filling mechanism and launched the green-marbled Model 100 in 1929 — the pen that made the ink-window piston filler the house's defining feature.
Best for Piston-filler heritage fountain pens bought straight from Pelikan's own Hannover
Pelikan's history in Hannover runs back to 1838, when Carl Hornemann's color and ink works in the city's Hainholz district grew into the company that, under Günther Wagner, patented the piston-filling mechanism and launched the green-marbled Model 100 in 1929 — the pen that made the ink-window piston filler the house's defining feature. Production later moved roughly 30 kilometers east to Peine-Voehrum in 1973, but Hannover stayed the brand's home ground and its historic factory site, at Pelikanplatz 21, is where the company now runs the Tintenturm: a combined factory shop and company museum.
The Tintenturm's shop functions as a genuine factory outlet — customers can test pens before buying, get nib exchanges, engraving, and cleaning done on the spot, and browse Pelikan's current writing-instrument range at factory pricing. Above the shop floor, a historic ceremonial hall built in 1913 by architect Karl Siebrecht, with stained glass by modernist Adolf Richard Hölzel, hosts rotating exhibitions on the company's nearly 190-year history, plus guided 90-minute tours through the building and its archive.
It is not an independent boutique but the manufacturer's own retail and heritage site — the closest thing Pelikan has to a flagship — and the only place to buy the pens, test the nibs, and see the company museum in the same building where the brand's own story began.
Germany
German women's casual-wear brand under CBR Fashion Group, headquartered in Isernhagen near Hannover (relocated from Celle); coordinated everyday womenswear made in Germany and Asia.
Best for Coordinated casual wardrobe systems for German women
Street One is a German women's fashion brand within CBR Fashion Group, alongside sister brands Cecil and Street One MEN. The company's operational headquarters is in Isernhagen, near Hannover - the group relocated its logistics and office site there from its earlier base in Celle. Street One's business is built around coordinated, easy-to-combine everyday womenswear: tops, blouses, trousers, jeans, skirts, dresses and outerwear, sold both through its own retail network and online. It also runs a distinct premium sub-line, Street One Studio. Manufacturing is split between Germany and Asia.
Mitte
A Hannover chocolate maker on Rathenaustraße turning out handmade truffles and pralines, including a Herrenhausen Collection developed with the head of the city's baroque gardens. Locals treat the confiserie as a fixture of the town centre.
Best for Handmade truffles and pralines
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