The best-known ruins in Lower Saxony
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Hanover's ruins are in the center: the Aegidienkirche (1347) and the St.-Nikolai-Kapelle from around the 13th century are both within a kilometer. Goslar has a run of them, the Stiftskirche St. Simon und Judas and Stiftsruine St. Georg, all within 1 km. Castle ruins: Burgruine Hunnesrück 13 km from Einbeck, Burg Sichelnstein and the Brackenburg 7 km from Hannoversch Münden. The Rieswarte is 7 km from Göttingen.
Of the 83 ruins RLQuest knows in Lower Saxony, 29 have a Wikipedia article. Churches and chapels make up an unusual share of the list. Several sit in town centers, which makes them short RLQuest quests, and a few, like Hunnesrück or the Rieswarte, a proper walk. Either way the app reads the route, and the tiles you crossed stay colored in.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 31 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
