  The kinematical setting of spherically symmetric quantum geometry, derived
from the full theory of loop quantum gravity, is developed. This extends
previous studies of homogeneous models to inhomogeneous ones where interesting
field theory aspects arise. A comparison between a reduced quantization and a
derivation of the model from the full theory is presented in detail, with an
emphasis on the resulting quantum representation. Similar concepts for
Einstein-Rosen waves are discussed briefly.
