Old Palace (Hanover)
postcard no. 800 by F. Astholz junior.
The old palace stood in Hanover on the site of today's Hannah-Arendt-Platz and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs . In the course of its history it was also called Palais von dem Bussche and Palais an der Leinstraße .
history
Johann Clamer von dem Bussche († 1766), Minister of State and Privy Councilor, initially acquired three houses opposite the Leineschloss from 1751–52, in order to build a 39 m long, three-storey palace in late Baroque forms after their demolition : the “Palais von dem Bussche ". The architect is unknown, but could have been Johann Paul Heumann (1703–1759) or the fortress builder Johann Georg Dinglinger (1702–1785), who also wrote the foreword to the engraving (ed. 1759: Georg Moritz Lowitz in Göttingen) for the palace wrote.
Karl II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz lived here from 1768 to 1786 , and his daughters Luise (later Queen of Prussia) and Friederike (later Queen of Hanover) were born here.
In 1786 Duke Friedrich von York bought the palace and in 1789 had the neighboring house on the right rebuilt or rebuilt. In 1797 the chief commissioner (merchant) Eckhard bought the palace in order to sell it on to the royal chamber in 1799.
The king, in turn, gave it to his youngest son, Duke Adolph Friedrich, Duke of Cambridge , in 1802 . For him and his family, court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves rebuilt the palace in 1814-20: New courtyard buildings and the acquisition of the neighboring house on the left in 1818 made it very expanded, redecorated and furnished.
In 1820, the court mason Ernst Ludwig Taentzel and the sculptor August Hengst created the alliance coat of arms at the Old Palace for Adolph Friedrich and his wife, Auguste of Hesse , Duchess of Cambridge and Vice Queen in the Kingdom of Hanover .
bw-photo by Wilhelm August Degèle of a gouache originally multicolored around 1850 by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Kretschmer ; in Ernst August album from 1861/62
In 1830 the palace was designated as the future royal winter residence. As a result, the Leine Castle opposite became a purely representative building, which, however, was connected to the Old Palace shortly afterwards by an underground passage.
After the purchase by King Wilhelm IV , he let his brother continue to live there. In 1837/38 the central entrance was closed and the ground floor of the palace was converted into an apartment for King Ernst August I , while the upper floor was designed for Queen Friederike. The king and queen later died here in the old palace. In 1838, the adjoining Schreihagen / Arnswald house and other rear buildings were also acquired access to and from the market square .
The name "Altes Palais" probably originated around 1853 after the Wangenheim-Palais was established as the "New Palace" for the successor to King George V in 1851/52 .
From 1853–93 the Old Palais served as the royal private library as well as for the weapons collection and the coin cabinet (after that the building was used by the Cumberland Asset Management).
1859-66 a Ministry of the Royal House used the south wing, while (also until 1866) the English congregation held their services in a hall of the Old Palace.
The building was destroyed in 1943 during the air raids on Hanover in World War II.
Illustrations (incomplete)
- 1759: Johann Georg Dinglinger published an engraving in Göttingen, to which the fortress builder Johann Georg Dinglinger (1702–1785) wrote a foreword.
See also
literature
- Stefan Office: Georg Friedrich Dinglinger. New research results…. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter (HG), vol. 1–32, Hannover 1898–1930; New episode (NF): Jg./Bd. 1ff, Hannover 1931ff; here: NF 48 (1994), p. 200
- Th. Then: Courtly living culture is changing. The Old Palace in Hanover and its furnishings in the first half of the 19th century; in: HG NF 50 (1996), pp. 85-126
- VC Habicht: GF Dinglinger, the master of the Palais an der Leinstrasse, in: HG 18 (1915), pp. 457–466
- VC Habicht: GF Dinglinger. A contribution…; in: HG 19 (1916), pp. 271-287
- Günther Kokkelink and Harold Hammer-Schenk (both eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the 19th century, Hanover 1989; here: pp. 500–502
- Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover, city of Hanover , 2 parts, 1932; here: T. 1, pp. 304-310, 423f.
- Helmut Knocke 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 , here: p. 20f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Hannover… p. 20f
- ↑ a b Stadtlexikon Hannover ..., p. 21
- ↑ Helmut Knocke: Taentzel, Tän (t) zel, (1) Ernst Ludwig, in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 616
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Hannover ..., p. 12
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 14.7 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 2.2" E