Aegidientorplatz

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Aegidientorplatz in a southerly direction. You can see the Torhaus, the Theater am Aegi and the administration buildings of Nord / LB and Sparkasse Hannover (from left).

The Aegidientorplatz shortly popularly Aegi called, is one of busy place in Hannover , under which the eponymous metro station is located. The square was named after the Aegidientor , a city ​​gate of the medieval city of Hanover that existed until 1780 .

Aegidientor

Aegidientor in the city ​​fortifications of Hanover
Aegidientor as a decorative round arched gate around 1830

The Aegidientor had been the southeastern city ​​gate of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover since the Middle Ages . The name - sometimes written as Egidien Thor - was given to it from the neighboring Aegidien Church . This is where the trunk road from Hildesheim met the city. In front of the gate was the Eddingerode settlement , which was built in the 9th century and later fell into desolation .

The gate was first mentioned in 1307. The multi-storey inner gate tower, provided with a passage, stood in the middle of Breite Straße . In the course of the expansion of the city fortifications, a kennel was built outside the wall in 1504, right next to the outer gatehouse (roughly in the middle of today's Aegidientorplatz) . From then on, access to the city was via a drawbridge over the moat, through the outer gatehouse, over a second bridge and through the inner gate. These systems were removed when the city ​​fortifications of Hanover were closed in 1763. Then decorative arched gates were built there, which were demolished in the 19th century. A memorial plaque on the house at Breite Straße 7/10 reminds of the former location of the medieval inner gate tower. The tower was demolished in 1748 during the construction of the Aegidienneustadt at the instigation of Mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen .

Aegidientorplatz

In the course of the demolition of the city fortifications from 1780, the remaining gate system was removed. Aegidientorplatz took the place of the Aegidientor from 1844 onwards. A guard house (around the current confluence with Marienstraße ) and a more decorative, representative gate system now performed the last remaining functions of the city gate. This last installation was demolished in 1859.

For a long time, the square was characterized by a strictly geometric, classicist street layout. From 1872 the first horse-drawn tram ran across Aegidientorplatz. Georgstraße leads from the Kröpcke to the square.

  • View over the square into Marienstraße with the garden church , on the left the Schiffgraben (around 1880)

  • View of Hildesheimer Strasse (left of the center of the picture) (around 1900)

  • Aegidientorplatz around 1900

  • Aegidientorplatz around 1898

  • Aegidientorplatz with steel high road, from 1969

Aegidientorplatz was extensively expanded through the renovation and expansion of Hanover's main roads into the car “Cityring” in the 1950s. For the construction of the underground station as part of the Hanover city railway , a steel high street was led across the square from September 20, 1968 in the course of the inner city ring during five construction closures. The road was opened to traffic on November 1, 1968. This road, originally planned as a provisional facility (colloquially called Aegi-Hochstraße or Aegibrücke), remained in use until 1998. The demolition took place on October 17 and 18, 1998. The Aegi-Hochstraße often had to be closed in winter due to the formation of black ice and was recently only approved for cars up to 3.5 tons total weight and limited to a maximum speed of 30 km / h.

In 1996, plans began to convert and redesign the square. The light rail line 10 ended at this time in the Friedrichstrasse (today the building of the NORD / LB overbuilt). A complete redesign was to be achieved by dismantling the light rail across the middle of the square and demolishing the dilapidated elevated road. This planning was carried out as a joint plan between the civil engineering department of the city of Hanover and the üstra subsidiary TransTeC-bau. In the construction work from the end of 1997 to 1999, the square was then completely rebuilt. The above-ground light rail was given a raised platform according to plans by the architecture firm Wiege and now ended at the northern edge of the square coming from Thielenplatz. The vacated space instead of the bridge was used for additional turning lanes and also for a special bus lane in the central position.

Before construction began, there were major concerns as to whether the square would be able to cope with traffic flows without the bridge. Many critics feared permanent traffic jams that would result in all directions. However, the experience of the first years of operation has shown that these fears have not materialized.

Center of the Aegidientorplatz as a traffic island with the Aegidienwald , a stylized birch forest

In 2003, plans began for a further renovation, which could begin in November 2004 after the binding period for the previous renovation in accordance with the Municipal Transport Financing Act had expired. The bus lane created as an extension of the elevated platform should be abandoned up to the confluence with Hildesheimer Straße, which enables a simplified bus route. Part of the area was used for another lane in the direction of the Schiffgraben . The majority of the area was redesigned into the so-called Aegidienwald by October 2006 according to a design by the landscape architecture students at Leibniz University Hannover Dominik Geilker and Stefanie Schmoll, supervised by Professor Udo Weilacher and urban designer Thomas Göbel-Groß. The planning and implementation of the project was the responsibility of the architecture office of Klaus Determann .

In September 2017, the overground light rail connection was permanently shut down as part of Project Ten and Seventeen .

building

The Theater am Aegi , which was inaugurated in 1953 and has been a privately operated guest theater since 1994, is located directly on Aegidientorplatz . The administration building of the Sparkasse Hannover from the same era is a monument . At the northern end of the square there is an office complex that is used by the Norddeutsche Landesbank. The ensemble consists of five structures, including a nine-storey high-rise. The travertine- clad buildings were erected between 1956 and 1958.

On the northeast side of the square is the Hansa-Haus , located between the confluence of Arnswaldtstrasse and Marienstraße . The building was erected in 1905/06, originally in the neo-baroque style. The Hannoversche Sparkassenverband moved its headquarters here in 1922 and set up a counter hall on the ground floor. The artist and architect Franz Bubenzer had his studio in one of the apartments above .

The large administration building of the Norddeutsche Landesbank on Aegidientorplatz is remarkable in terms of urban planning . The so-called Torhaus-Hanover , located between the junctions of Marienstraße and Hildesheimer Straße, is architecturally interesting . This building towers above the sidewalk by several meters, but could not be built on the suburban railway station below for structural reasons. The weight of this part of the building is therefore transferred to the rear part of the building by means of large steel girders via wire ropes.

An office building for the auditing company Deloitte was built on the east side of the theater from 2012 to 2015 . Initially, the Hanover-based architecture firm BKSP planned a nine-storey house, which was later expanded to ten storeys. The facade of the new building made of white concrete and natural stone is supposed to adapt optically to the old north / LB building opposite. At the same location at the confluence with Hildesheimer Straße there was previously an office building for VGH insurance from 1950.

For the bus stop for lines 100 and 120 on the square, Jasper Morrison designed a seemingly functional shelter as part of the BUSSTOPS art project .

Metro station

Underground station with historical gate representations

The subway station Aegidientorplatz the rail Hannover is a transfer station for the lines of the B and the C-line. You can change trains without barriers at two directional platforms, one on top of the other .

On the lowest level (-3), lines 4, 5, 6, 11 go out of town, coming from Kröpcke in the direction of Marienstraße (C route), while lines 1, 2, 8 go in the direction of Hildesheimer Strasse (B route ). At the platform (-2) above, these lines go in the direction of Kröpcke.

On the distribution floor (-1 level) of the station (exit Hildesheimer Straße), a large reproduction on the wall shows the view of the Aegidientore from around 1620 by Arnold Nöldeke (from his book Die Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Hannover ). The walls of the station are decorated with historical gate representations as decorative elements.

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the city of Hanover . 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. Hanover 1932. Reprint: Osnabrück: Wenner, 1979, pp. 41–74 (p. 61: The outer and inner Aegidientor around 1620, reconstructed view). ISBN 3-87898-151-1
  • Hans Ulrich Stockmann: The Aegidientorplatz. Development and modification of a square on the edge of downtown Hanover . Among employees by Camilla Hughes-Hunt. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . NF Vol. 35 (1981) pp. 159-180.
  • Dieter Tasch : Aegidientorplatz and Georgsplatz through the ages . Hanover: Norddeutsche Landesbank 1987.
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hannover art and culture lexicon , manual and city guide . 3rd, rev. Edition Hanover: Schäfer 1995, pp. 63-64. ISBN 3-88746-313-7
  • F. Eggeling: Urban planning in Hanover. In: Bauen und Wohnen 1956 , issue 10, p. 327ff. (especially p. 331)
  • Harald Koch, Franz Rudolf Zankl : Places in Hanover. [then and now] / Theater am Küchengarten. A comparison of historical photographs and current photos by Harald Koch and texts by Franz Rudolf Zankl , 1st edition, Theater am Küchengarten, Hanover: TAK-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-9806454-0-1
  • Felix Zur Nedden: Hannover in Transition; once, yesterday, today , Hamburg: Medien-Verlag Schubert, 1998, ISBN 3-929229-57-9
  • Eva Benz-Rababah : Aegidientorplatz. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 13f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 20, 1968, in: Karl Schreeck: On the construction of the Aegi-Hochstraße , http://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?5,6913650,6915617#msg-6915617
  2. ↑ haz.de: Photo galleries Hannover, Hannovers Hochbrücken , http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Fotostrecken-Hannover/Hannovers-Hochbruecken#p8
  3. ↑ Aegi has a new face: Lord Mayor Schmalstieg inaugurates the “Aegidienwald” project. Press release. City of Hanover, Mayor's Office for Press and Public Relations, October 26, 2006, accessed on November 25, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Conrad von Meding: That should be monuments ?. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 23, 2010, p. 15
  5. ↑ Dirk Böttcher and Klaus Mlynek (eds.): Hanover - Art and Culture Lexicon: Handbook and City Guide. Jump, zu Klampen, 2007. P. 34. ISBN 3-934920-53-5 .
  6. ↑ Sparkassenverband turns 125 years old , article on HAZ.de with a picture of the Hansa house in its original state. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
  7. ^ Lorenz Knieriem, Christoph Schmidt: Hanover. A city changes its face. Erfurt, Sutton Verlag, 2013. p. 82. ISBN 978-3-95400-262-7 .
  8. ↑ The family's apartment was in Südstadt and was destroyed in the first major air raid on Hanover (family tradition).
  9. ↑ a b Nine-story office building to enrich Aegidientorplatz , article on HAZ.de. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  10. ^ Office building Aegidientorplatz 2a Hannover - Architektur-Bildarchiv. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
  11. ↑ The new building on the Aegi is one floor higher , article on HAZ.de. Retrieved June 9, 2014.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 35 ″  E