Ahlemer Tower

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The Ahlem Tower

The Ahlemer Turm in Hanover in the Ahlem district is a former excursion restaurant. It was built in 1897 in the local style by the architect Alfred Sasse on a 74 m high hill, the Mönckeberg. The building has been a listed building since 1985. It has served the Thai community of Wat Dhammavihara as a Buddhist temple since 2007 .

history

Postcard from 1898

The building was built as an excursion restaurant. In the beginning it was only operated on Sundays, when there was dancing. In the 1930s, Carl Ehlers managed the well- frequented eatery with large garden areas . Ehlers was previously the owner of the Löwenhof in Luisenstrasse. At the Ahlemer Tower he loosened up the entertainment concerts on the weekends with variety shows . Ehlers acquired animals from the animal shop Ruhe from Alfeld (Leine) , which had been supplying exotic animals to Hanover Zoo since 1924 , with which he set up a small zoo at the Ahlemer Tower.

In 1939 the building was sold to the National Socialist People's Welfare . During the Second World War , the spire was demolished and a command post for Flak Brigade XV was set up on the tower .

In the post-war period , the Ahlem Tower was used in different ways. First in 1945 it was a foreigner camp for Poles and Bulgarians for one year. Between 1946 and 1956, the Arbeiterwohlfahrt operated a girls' dormitory in the building. Other functions were a primary school, a workers' dormitory for employed people, a reception camp for refugees from the Hungarian uprising in 1956, a boarding school for special needs students and, from 1961 to 1963, a counting point for the state administrative office for the population and occupational census in 1961.

From 1963 to 2004, the building was the seat of an approximately 100-member agency of the Highway Police of Lower Saxony Police .

Buddhist temple

In 2007, the non-profit Thai Buddhist association "Wat Dhammavihara Buddhisten-Verein Hannover eV", founded in 2003, acquired the Ahlemer Tower from the state of Lower Saxony, which was in need of restoration as a temple and meeting place. In October 2013, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Wat Dhammavihara Association was celebrated with an annual meeting of 93 monks of the Association of Thai Monks in Europe. The practice practiced in the temple is in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism .

literature

  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Ahlemer Turm , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 16 (Stw. Ruhe, Tierhandlung p. 350)
  • Harald Lampe-Schaer: The Ahlemer Tower , in: Heimatland. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care , ed. vom Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Hanover 1988, pp. 123-126
  • Harald Lampe-Schaer: Motorway Police Commissioner Hannover-Ahlem 1963–1997: 100 years of the Ahlem Tower. Engelhard, Hanover [1997]
  • Siegfried Otto Frohner (Ed.): Ahlemer stories. On behalf of the local group Ahlem in Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, xlibri, Kaufering 2015, pp. 100-104

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Station 14 - Ahlemer Turm: Formerly the dance hall, today Meditation , hannover.de , accessed on April 18, 2017
  2. ↑ a b A few facts , website of Wat Dhammavihara Hanover
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Wilhelm Rogge: Tour 9: Limmer / Ahlem: rubber, sulfur and asphalt. In: Ingo Bultmann (Ed.): Hanover on foot: 18 city tours through history and the present. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-87975-471-7 , pp. 133-140
  4. ↑ The Workers' Welfare 1919-1949. Published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding day of the Main Committee for Workers' Welfare Hanover, Heye, Bremen 1949, pp. 88, 107
  5. ^ Chronicle Ahlemer Turm , website Wat Dhammavihara
  6. ↑ Motorway Police Commissioner Hannover-Ahlem: 1963–1997; 100 years of the Ahlem Tower. Engelhard, Hanover 1997
  7. ↑ Fulfilling energy standards despite monument protection , GFF magazine , November 21, 2011
  8. ↑ Sirany Schümann: Thai temple attracts many believers , Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , 23. September 2009
  9. ↑ Chronicle Ahlemer tower , wathannover.de
  10. ^ Carsten Richter: Buddhist meeting in the Ahlemer Tower , Neue Presse (Hanover) , October 13, 2013
  11. ↑ Phra Thongnark talking , site Wat Dhammavihara

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 59.7 "  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 27.1"  E