Aegidienneustadt

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City map around 1750 with the still existing city ​​fortifications of Hanover : the Aegidienneustadt can be seen in the southeast; Plan by Tobias Conrad Lotter

The Aegidienneustadt , sometimes also called Aegidienvorstadt , was a district of Hanover in what is now the Mitte district . Little is left of the original development and street layout.

location

The Aegidiennu town was built in 1747 and was located at the south-eastern end of the urban development at that time, a little west of today's Aegidientorplatz . It was located on an area that is now bordered by Georgswall in the west, Georgsplatz in the north and the eastern side of Aegidientorplatz in the east. Its southern border ran a little south of today's Friedrichswall , not quite as far as where Bleichenstraße runs today.

history

Since the transfer of the royal court to London, the city has deteriorated economically. Christian Ulrich Grupen , Mayor of Hanover, planned the first urban expansion of the city since the Middle Ages at the southeastern Aegidientor in order to attract especially foreign craftsmen and tradesmen and to settle in the city . To do this, he had the fortress ring razed there and, in 1746, initially commissioned the city master builder Ernst Braun with the planning. Braun's design envisaged the construction of 60 houses after the wall had been razed. From March 1747, builder Georg Friedrich Dinglinger II continued the planning, which was finally approved by Georg II in August 1747 . Dinglinger had the site leveled in the area of ​​the Süder-Bothfelder Bastion and later also included the windmill bastion south of the Aegidientor, which was relocated to the Sparrenberg bastion (today's Opernplatz ). The material that was generated when the fortifications were demolished in this area was partly used for the construction of the garden church .

Dinglinger took up Braun's plans for a central square in the district. Around this dog market, streets converging at right angles were grouped in a strictly geometric structure. The main street was Breite Straße, which still runs there today. To the south of it was the dog market , which was crossed by the now-defunct Braunschweigische Strasse in a west-east direction and by the also no longer existing Aegidienstraße in a north-south direction.

Former resident of Aegidienneustadt: Charlotte Kestner geb. Buff. Pastel painting by Joh. Heinrich Schröder

The merchants of the old town protested in a petition to the king against the planned expansion and against the preference given to foreign craftsmen. A commission set up as a result found the complaints to be exaggerated, but reprimanded Grupen's unauthorized approach, mainly because the money would have been better used for renovating the old town.

By 1756 only 72 of 102 originally planned houses of different sizes were built. The plan to give them to outsiders did not work out, however, residents became predominantly wealthier citizens, merchants and officials from the old town. For example, Charlotte Kestner , b. Buff with her family. She was the model of Lotte in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther . Mayor Grupen himself had a house built for himself in the Breiten Straße, Dinglinger lived with his family in the Braunschweigische Straße from 1750, and in the Große Aegidienstraße from 1753. However, the residents of the new quarter did not become citizens of the city of Hanover until 1802, before the area belonged to the Koldingen district .

The Aegidienneustadt was largely destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War and the subsequent urban and street renovations, especially the breakthrough from today's Friedrichswall to Aegidientorplatz. Today the Nord / LB building is located on the southern part of the area , north of Friedrichswall is the ensemble of the headquarters of the Sparkasse Hannover and, on Georgsplatz, other commercial buildings, including the headquarters of Deutsche Hypo .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '  N , 9 ° 45'  E