Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves

Waterloo Column on Waterloo Square, Hanover
Hanover Opera House
Leine Palace, Hanover
Wangenheim Palace, Hanover
The Laveshaus, the Hanover building where Laves resided
Candelabra in front of the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum in the Georgengarten, Hanover
The mausoleum at Derneburg Castle
The "Laves bridge" at Derneburg Castle (reconstructed)

Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (17 December 1788 – 30 April 1864) was a German architect, civil engineer and urban planner. Born in Uslar, Lower Saxony, he lived and worked primarily in the city of Hanover and also died there. He was appointed Oberhofbaudirektor, "court master builder", in 1852. As the leading architect of the Kingdom of Hanover for a career spanning 50 years, he had great influence on the urban development of this city. Alongside Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin and Leo von Klenze in Munich, Laves was one of the most accomplished neoclassical style architects of Germany. As an engineer he developed a special iron truss lenticular or "fishbelly" beam bridge construction method, the so-called "Lavesbrücke". Laves found his final resting place in the Engesohde Cemetery (Engesohder Friedhof) in Hanover.

Among his most important works are:

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