Aegidientorplatz 1

The building at Aegidientorplatz 1 , built in the late 1950s, with the Sparkasse logo , seen in the evening from Breiten Straße , in front of it are the angular elements by the artist Günter Tollmann

The Aegidientorplatz 1 building in Hanover is a listed office building from the late 1950s and currently (as of February 2018) the seat of several institutions in the state capital of Hanover . The location of the house in Hanover's Mitte district is the square between Aegidientorplatz , Friedrichswall , Breite Straße and Georgswall .

History and description

View around 1959 from the Bayer-Haus through Marienstrasse towards Aegidientorplatz 1

In Vent , detail of the steel sculpture by the artist Robert Schad installed in the courtyard in 1996

In Vent , detail in front of the rectangles of the skeleton structure

View of the eastern courtyard

The building was erected over areas of the former city expansion Aegidienneustadt , which began in 1748 and was largely destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in World War II and the remains of which fell victim to the breakthrough of the Friedrichwall during the newly designed "Cityring" during the economic miracle fell.

In the years 1958 to 1959, the architects Walter and Hardt-Waltherr Hämer, together with Fritz Eggeling and Felix zur Nedden , completed the five-story skeleton office building with two inner courtyards for the Magdeburger Versicherung as the conclusion and most important part of the redesign of the Aegidientorplatz . After the former Kreissparkasse moved in in 1980, the steel sculpture angle elements by the artist Günter Tollmann were placed in front of the corner of the building on Breite Straße . In 1994 the western inner courtyard was converted into a glass-covered counter hall, while the eastern inner courtyard, which is framed on three sides by “shop pavilions ” between the pillars, remained open to the public. In 1996 the artist Robert Schad erected his group of steel sculptures In Vent in this inner courtyard facing Aegidientorplatz .

After the Sparkasse Hannover moved into the 20,000 m² office, retail and restaurant space in 2003, it sold the building in 2014 to the Baum-Holding, the company group of the president of the Hannoversche Rennverein Gregor Baum . While the new owner wants to develop a “high-quality and sustainable usage concept” for the building, the Sparkasse with around 800 employees intends to move in autumn 2015 to the headquarters on Raschplatz, which has been renovated for around 100 million euros . According to Sparkasse spokesman Stefan Becker , the Sparkasse will remain a tenant in part of the ground floor at Aegidientorplatz 1.

Media coverage (selection)

kig: Baum buys the building of the Sparkasse am Aegi. In: Neue Presse of October 14, 2014, p. 16

literature

Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Aegidientorplatz 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 75.
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 1 (Hannover) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c kig: Baum buys buildings ... (see under the section media coverage )

↑ Compare one of the maps offered using the geographic coordinates given above on the right above this article

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Aegidientorplatz 1 (see literature)

^ Klaus Mlynek : Aegidienneustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 13

↑ ^a ^b Eva Benz-Rababah: Aegidientorplatz (see literature)

^ Ulrich Eggert: Gregor Baum. In: 100 Hanoverian Heads , ed. by Tigo Zeyen and Anne Weber-Ploemacher, with photographs by Joachim Giesel, Niemeyer, Hameln 2006, ISBN 978-3-8271-9251-6 and ISBN 3-8271-9251-X , pp. 18f.

↑ Compare the imprint on the Baum group of companies website

52.368677 9.741898Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 7.2 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 30.8" E

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