Old Linden Town Hall (Hanover)

The old Linden town hall with the front on Deisterstraße and the main facade towards the Schwarzer Bär

The Old Linden Town Hall is a town hall of the former municipality of Linden in front of Hanover , built at the end of the 19th century , which was created in connection with the rise from the former “most beautiful village in the Kingdom of Hanover ” via the “largest village in Prussia ” to an independent industrial city . The listed brick building is located at Deisterstraße 19 at the corner of Ricklinger Straße in what is now Hanover's Linden-Mitte district .

History and description

After the Thirty Years' War , it was above all the imperial count Franz Ernst von Platen who drove the development of Linden in the Von-Alten-Garten he leased and the Lindener Schloss built there for him by promoting the settlement of craftsmen and weavers in the "Neu- Linden ". The half-timbered houses in Weberstrasse still bear witness to this today . When in the course of industrialization from the 1830s onwards, initially by Johann and Georg Egestorff , more and more people from the countryside moved to the new factories in search of work , the administration of Linden was initially still in the so-called “ parish hall ” in the Posthornstrasse , later also in various provisional arrangements . In 1882, the mayor, Hermann Stephanus , suggested the construction of a town hall of his own in order to promote Linden's desired city rights and to be recognized as a district town . As the building site, the people of Linden chose the town- planning- effective position exactly at the fork in the Deisterstraße, which rises slightly from the then Ihmebrücke, and the Ricklinger Straße. Within sight of the old “entrance square” in Linden, the Schwarzer Bär square , a trapezoidal structure with three facades was to rise, with a main facade pointing north towards the Schwarzer Bär . In the acute angle in front of it, a small decorative space was to be created - which then also became the first in Linden.

About 1898 [Old] Town Hall (left), industry - chimneys behind the church of St. Martin (center) and the even larger houses on the square "Neuer Markt" ;
Lithographed postcard from the Doctor Adolf Edel publishing house

The building around 1910, to the left of it the former skin clinic

After the drafts by the architect Christoph Hehl , which were completed by May 1883, the foundation stone was laid in the same year and the inauguration took place on October 1, 1884, when future citizens could marvel at the new, two-storey council chamber, among other things . Its high windows with stained glass contained a dedication to Georg Egestorff, the deceased "[...] main bearer and promoter of machinisation , the industrial revolution [and] progress " in Linden and at the same time the largest and most successful entrepreneur in the former Kingdom of Hanover .

Externally, the artisans had a three-story brick building built in the architectural language of the neo-Gothic , with a by roof skylights richly articulated roofscape of the day (as of 05/2015), however, only a Fial - gable has been preserved. The former richness of the structure is still evident in the gallery-like third floor, the vestibule , a sophisticated driveway and the graceful design of the windows on the former council chamber.

Citizen's letter for the sculptor Georg Herting issued by the magistrate on October 4, 1897 in the old town hall of Linden

The ( graffiti ) smeared side on Ricklinger Straße with the high council chamber windows and the brick entrance

After Linden 1885 actually municipal rights had been awarded and was also recognized as a regional center, was one of the first, by the time 10 that "citizens gain money" Mark paid the civic oath sworn and thus also a citizen letter from the magistrate had received the City of Linden, the sculptor Georg Herting .

But the construction of a new, larger town hall had already been discussed before, from 1891, for which the funds were only available after the tax reform of 1894 and 1895 and after an increase in trade and sales tax . Only then could the desired New Linden Town Hall start operating in 1899 on the Linden market square .

The Old Town Hall Lindener later served the land registry office of the district Linden , later (until 1992) as hospital - pharmacy for the opposite city hospital or the skin clinic Linden . In the meantime, the surroundings of the old town hall also changed: Especially around the place at the Schwarzen Bären, Deisterstraße was soon built with large-city , five- and six-story houses with Wilhelmine or Wilhelmine facades. This can still be clearly seen in the nearby Deisterstraße 19 office building from around 1890.

During the period of National Socialism covered World War II was the Old Town Hall Lindener by the bombing of Hannover badly damaged.

During the time of the economic miracle , the former council chamber was used by the Silk Gallery as an exhibition space for art objects from 1958 to 1961 .

literature

Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Black Bear, Deisterstraße entrance. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 126ff., Here: p. 127
- as well as Linden-Mitte in the addendum : List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 22f.
Helmut Behrens: Christoph Hehl's secular buildings. A study on the architecture of the Hanoverian School , dissertation 1978 at the Technical University of Berlin, Faculty 08 - Construction planning and production, 1978, pp. 119–122
Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century (= sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 92), also dissertation 1979 at the University of Hanover, Hildesheim: Lax, 1981, ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 , p. 304

Web links

Commons : Altes Lindener Rathaus - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Black Bear ... (see literature)

^ ^A ^b Klaus Mlynek : Linden. 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. 406ff.

↑ ^a ^b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Weberstrasse 20, 21. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 214

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helmut Knocke : Linden City Hall , as well as 1. Old Linden City Hall and 2. New Linden City Hall. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 410

^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Egestorff, (1) Georg. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 144f.

↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: EGESTORF, (1) George. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 104; online through google books

↑ Compare the corresponding letter from October 4, 1897

^ Rainer Kasties MA: Linden Dermatology Clinic. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 176

52.36598 9.71957Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 10.5 ″ E

[DTBD-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Black Bear ... (see literature)

[Linden-2] A ^b Klaus Mlynek : Linden. 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. 406ff.

[HKuKL-3] Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Weberstrasse 20, 21. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 214