Old Bethesda (Hanover)

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The brick building Alt-Bethesda , which was built in Kirchrode in 1874 for the Henrietten Foundation and is now a listed building

Old Bethesda in Hanover , sometimes also called "Evening Peace", is one of the oldest surviving Bethesda buildings belonging to the Henrietten Foundation in the Hanover district of Kirchrode . At Schwemannstrasse 13 , the listed building has been used as an infirmary after its former role as an infirmary , since its restoration with modern, renovated interiors for short-term and day care and as a meeting place.

history

The seemingly isolated chapel on Schwemannstrasse

Only a few years after the foundation and establishment of the Henriettenstiftung during the time of the Kingdom of Hanover by Queen Marie , the work begun by the deaconesses expanded from nursing to elderly care .

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866, Dietrich Wilhelm Schwemann , who had been called the Royal Consul of Hanover shortly before, left his building in Kirchrode, which had been intended as a moving house , to the foundation on August 23, 1867 . The transfer was initially connected with the obligation to set up a waiting school for the young people of the village at that time . But the deaconesses then used the small half-timbered house to care for up to twelve ailing women and gradually developed an entire city quarter around the Schwemann house, which was given to them five years later on December 26, 1872. It was not until 1964 that the Henrietten Foundation's original building was demolished in favor of the Simeon Church .

From 1873 - according to plans by Conrad Wilhelm Hase's oldest pupil, Adelbert Hotzen together with Rudolph Berg - until 1875 Alt-Bethesda with its chapel was built and an annex was added a further decade later in 1884.

Building description

The extension built in 1884 (right) takes up the material and design language of the previous building
The south side of Old Bethesda with the roofed balcony resting on cast iron supports

Old Bethesda was built as a single-storey brick building under a gable roof , from the beginning with a similar extension to the north side, which served as a chapel. This function was emphasized by the slim, high roof turret. On the main building, the coupled windows are striking, which were formulated in the skylights by tracery and set off from the simple brick walls by glazed bricks in the walls and the sills . The only slightly more recent extension took up the shape and material of the previous building.

The emphasis placed on the building of Old Bethesda created by the on both eaves sides Gothicising lucarnes with their stepped gables and their fialartigen crowning .

The south front of Old Bethesda is characterized by a covered balcony that rests on cast-iron supports.

See also

Literature (selection)

  • NN : A foray into the past and present of the Henrietten Foundation in Kirchrode , with photos and texts from the "Henrietten Foundation Public Relations", in Michael Hümpel (Ed.), Lars Michael (Red.): The city district in words and pictures. Chronicle Kirchrode - Bemerode - Wülferode , 1st edition, Hanover: Verlag Michael Hümpel, 2003, pp. 143–147

Web links

Commons : Old Bethesda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The source names "Adalbert Hotzen" and the year of construction "1873"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Wolfgang Neß: The old village. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 92f., As well as Kirchrode in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 19f., Here: p. 19
  2. ↑ a b c d Doris Böker: The structural development of the Henrietten Foundation , including: The subsidiary in Kirchrode , in Wolfgang Helbig (Ed.): New ways, old goals: 125 years of the Henrietten Foundation Hanover , Hanover: Lutherhausverlag, 1985, ISBN 3 -87502-165-7 , with numerous historical picture documents, pp. 61–76, especially pp. 69–73
  3. ^ A b Rainer Kasties MA: Bethesda. 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 , pp. 65f .; online through google books
  4. ↑ a b N.N .: A foray into the past and present of the Henrietten Foundation ... , p. 145
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Annexation 1866. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 28f.
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : A dog biscuit manufacturer built villas in Kirchrode , in which: The little Hanoverian history book. Anecdotes, incidents, legends . 1st edition. Leuenhagen & Paris, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-923976-43-7 , pp. 104-109; here: p. 107
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich von Cotta : Personal news. In: Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 98 of April 8, 1854, p. 1566; online through google books
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : A dog biscuit manufacturer built villas in Kirchrode , in which: The little Hanoverian history book. Anecdotes, incidents, legends . 1st edition, Leuenhagen and Paris, Hannover 2003, ISBN 3-923976-43-7 , pp. 104-109; here: p. 105
  9. ^ Helmut Knocke : Hotzen, Adelbert Theodor. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 179 and others; online through google books
  10. ^ Paul Siedentopf : Schwemann & pieces. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 203

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 44.8 "  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 42.9"  E