Adolfstrasse (Hanover)
The Adolfstraße located in Hanover district Calenberger Neustadt . It is named after Duke Adolph Ferdinand von Cambridge (1774–1850), the youngest brother of King Ernst August I of Hanover .
history
Adolfstrasse was - together with Molthanstrasse and Kommandanturstrasse - only laid out in the second quarter of the 19th century (1834) in place of part of the former city fortifications of Hanover : only after the trench at "Adolfswall" was partially filled in, construction began here, initially with additional buildings for the military buildings erected around Waterlooplatz , later with sophisticated residential buildings. Initially, architects and builders who “ wanted to build on speculation ”, such as Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan , Ernst Ebeling , Christoph August Gersting and Ernst Ludwig Täntzel, submitted bids for the properties offered for sale based on criteria similar to those in Georgstraße .
The street should - as the main street - create a direct connection between the old town and the garden and villa suburb of Linden , which at the time was still preferred, and which at that time was only accessible via a bridge over the Ihme am Schwarzen Bären .
At the beginning of the street was the Leibniz Temple, built in 1790 on the esplanade of Waterlooplatz.
House number 5, built by Christoph August Gersting between 1833 and 1835 , has survived from the early phase of settlement ; the three-storey plastered building faces Adolfstraße with seven axes. In addition to the plastered facade, a door and the original staircase have stood the test of time.
In 1846 the Crown Prince couple Georg and Marie moved into the Ernst-August-Palais at Adolfstraße 2-3 (not preserved).
1852–56, the architect Hermann Hunaeus built the Royal Military Hospital here with the help of Louis Stromeyer , and then built his own residential building here in 1856/57 (both buildings not preserved).
Opposite the General Military Hospital, Hunaeus established the Military Clothing Commission in 1859/60 , today a listed building of the DAG Academy (house number 8).
The building of today's “Blindow School” was mentioned in 1860 as the War Ministry and in 1939 it was used as a field hospital. From 1960 it belonged to the regional finance directorate.
The listed houses with the house numbers 6, 7 and 8a were only built after the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia .
Many buildings on Adolfstrasse were destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II and a larger plot of rubble was created . Until 2018, a large unpaved area that had been used as a makeshift parking lot for decades was evidence of this.
In the early post-war period , during the flood disaster of 1946 , the Calenberger Neustadt in particular was under water. On February 11th, the photographer Heinz Koberg took a photo of a "police rescue operation in Adolfstrasse", which was later printed in the Hanover History Journal, in which policemen and rescued people can be seen in a boat in front of a street corner.
View of Adolfstrasse; in the foreground house number 5, completed in 1835, the only remaining building by the master builder Christoph August Gersting
Adolfstrasse 8, formerly the military clothing commission
Around 1898: Above the now defunct General Military Hospital, below the still existing former military clothing commission
Extract from the address book of the city of Hanover around 1942 on Adolfstrasse
Archaeological investigations on Adolfstrasse before a new development, 2018
Remodeling project
As part of Hannover City 2020+ , a large-scale redesign project by the city of Hannover for large parts of the city center, a residential development is being built on the unpaved parking lot north of Adolfstraße. The urban and landscape planning ideas competition was concluded in June 2010.
Since 2016, Adolfstrasse has been designated as a bicycle road, as it represents an attractive direct connection for bicycle traffic between the city center and the Schwarzen Bär and Linden-Mitte as well as the green corridor along the Ihme and thus to Linden-Nord .
literature
- Hanover - Guide through the city and its buildings, commemorative publication for the fifth general assembly of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations , ed. by the Architects and Engineers Association in Hanover , edited by Theodor Unger , Hanover 1882, esp. p. 14 f.
- Hans-Herbert Möller in: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany
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Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. (2 volumes)
- Volume 1: From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century. Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9
- Volume 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0
Web links
- Der Blaue Faden, guide through the Calenberger Neustadt ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) And a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 12.
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hanover, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 8
- ↑ a b Harold Hammer-Schenk : Street plans. In: Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , rev. New edition of the exhibition catalog (1998–1999) Vom Schloß zum Bahnhof, Bauen in Hannover , ed. by Günther Kokkelink and Harold Hammer-Schenk, Verlag Th. Schäfer Hannover and Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hannover , ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 274ff .; here: p. 276
- ↑ 1936 moved to the Georgengarten.
- ^ A b Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Adolfstrasse and the adjacent area. In: 02 Calenberger Neustadt. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1 , Vol. 10.1, pp. 84–99; here: p. 94
- ^ Lit .: History of the City of Hanover ..., Vol. 2, p. 308.
- ^ Theo Walter: History of the gas supply of the city of Hanover , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 7, Issue 1, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1953, ISSN. Pp. 49-107; here: p. 99
- ↑ Conrad von Meding: The last large plot of land in the city is being built on. In: haz.de . November 12, 2015, accessed July 2, 2020 .
- ^ Bicycle streets in Hanover. (PDF, 3.4 MiB) In: hannover.de . City of Hanover, Civil Engineering Department, August 2017, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 31.9 ″ E