Limmerstrasse

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Limmerstrasse with a ground-level tram stop and the TW 6000 multiple unit

The Limmerstraße is a shopping street in the Hanover district Linden-Nord . It begins at the Ihmezentrum am Küchengarten , crosses the Linden-Nord district in a north-westerly direction, crosses under the Westschnellweg and ends at the intersection of Wunstorfer Strasse, Zimmermannstrasse and Friedhofstrasse in the Limmer district . Until the mid-1970s, Limmerstraße was one of the main connecting roads from the west of Hanover to the city center. It is around 1000 m long and today a significant part of it is designated as a pedestrian zone . Tram line 10 runs along the entire length of the street through Limmerstrasse.

history

View in the direction of the Leinaustraße stop with the wall of the former workers' housing estate for the mechanical weaving mill ;
Postcard No. 673 , anonymous , around 1900
Limmerstrasse at the corner of Kötnerholzweg with tram line 6 , an ice cream van and a horse fountain,
postcard no.657 , anonymous, around 1910
The "Restaurant W. Brodrick", Limmerstrasse 39 at the corner of Grotestrasse;
Lithograph by Willy Hoehl , around 1898
Hans Mertens “Houses in Linden ”, 1927;
looking from Fortunastraße to Starkestraße across to Limmerstraße;
Oil on canvas 67 × 62 cm; Sprengel Museum

Today's Limmerstrasse was built on a historic country road that led from the old village of Linden to the neighboring village of Limmer, which was in the then Amt of Blumenau until 1852 . The north-western section of the road in the Linden district up to the local border was renamed Nedderfeld in 1858 and - still in the Kingdom of Hanover - Limmerstrasse in 1861 .

Around 1906/07 the theater Thalia-Theater opened on the corner of Limmerstrasse and Kochstrasse . The Apollokino , founded in 1908, is located in a back courtyard on Limmerstrasse , the oldest suburban cinema and today one of the last district cinemas in Germany.

After the so-called " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933 , residents of Limmerstrasse were also victims of the terror that followed, including the Hameln prison and concentration camps such as Ravensbrück .

Soon after the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the Hermann Seifart fruit store , which was also located in Limmerstrasse and was able to sell bananas and citrus fruits at the 1951 Federal Horticultural Show , was one of “Germany's envied shops with their exotic delights” in the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany .

particularities

At the western end of the street is the Linden leisure home, Germany's first leisure home, which opened in 1961.

In the course of the art project BUSSTOPS , two stop houses designed by Andreas Brandolini were built at the Leinaustraße stop, with roofs being planted.

The horse-drawn carriage fountain by the sculptor Max Sauk, installed in 1979 on the corner of Limmerstrasse and the corner of Kötnerholzweg, is reminiscent of the site's former post office .

In the evening, the street often turns into a party mile for the passing guests of the neighboring event centers Béi Chéz Heinz , FAUST and UJZ Glocksee . Since the beginning of the 2010s, there has been a trend among young people to drink beer and party on Limmerstrasse at night. This activity, known as "glimmer", has led to considerable conflicts between residents and celebrants.

In 2004 the Buchdruck-Museum was founded, “in the style of a backyard printing house typical of the Linden district of the 1950s” as a “living museum” in which “everything can also be used”; the address is Limmerstrasse 43 .

Today (as of 09/2013) DESiMO's Special Club is located at the same address as the Apollo-Kino at Limmerstraße 50 . Here, on September 18, 2013, another stumbling block was laid for Jehovah's Witness Elsa Cranz .

Regular events

Limmerstrasse Festival
  • Limmerstrasse Festival
  • Linden-Limmer fun run
  • Lindener Schützenfest

literature

Web links

Commons : Limmerstraße (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Limmerstrasse , in: Die Strasseennamen der Landeshauptstadt Hannover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 161
  2. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : 1906/07 , in; Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 61
  3. ↑ a b Compare the documentation at Commons under the section Weblinks
  4. ^ Rainer Ertel , Ernst-Friedrich Roesener: Hannoversches Brunnenbuch. Fountains and fountains in Hanover. Exemplary and documentary , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag, 1988, ISBN 3-7716-1497-X , pp. 16-19, here: p. 18
  5. ^ Rüdiger Meise: Linden-Nord / Study about noise presented on Limmerstrasse , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 4, 2012, last accessed on September 24, 2013
  6. ↑ Jürgen Saalfeldt (1st chairman): About us on the buchdruckmuseum-hannover.de page , last accessed on September 27, 2013
  7. ↑ See, for example, this documentation at Commons
  8. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons under the section Weblinks
  9. ↑ Dirk Sarnes (Managing Director): Culture of remembrance / 30 new stumbling blocks laid ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the hannover.de page from September 18, 2013, last accessed on January 11, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannover.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27.8 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 16.4"  E