Old town flea market (Hanover)

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The old town flea market with a view of the Begin Tower and the Historical Museum

The old town flea market in Hanover is a flea market that takes place every Saturday on both sides of the Leine from the Leintor Bridge to the Goethe Bridge . From morning to afternoon, private dealers sell used items, junk and handicrafts , as well as art and collectibles . The old town flea market, also the oldest flea market in Germany, has developed into the image of the old town with the bar scene , the old town festival and the Nanas .

regulate

Flea market border at the Leineschloss
Market activity on the Martin-Neuffer-Brücke , formerly Marstallbrücke
Merchants and visitors between the Nanas

Has been banned since 2006

  • unused, packaged and bulk goods ;
  • younger electronic (nik) articles;
  • Clothing;
  • Bicycles and animals;
  • as well as weapons and war-glorifying goods or goods with symbols of the Nazi regime .

There are also - depending on the season - fixed times for setting up and dismantling the stalls.

history

The flea market in Hanover was modeled on the marché aux puces in Paris and based on an idea by Klaus Partzsch . On April 8, 1967, the Hanoverian flea market was organized by Reinhard Schamuhn for the first time on the wood market around the Oskar-Winter-Brunnen . But it was not until 1972 that Mike Gehrke developed the flea market into a weekly event with up to 1,000 vendors at times, but then around the Hohe Ufer .

Between 1981 and 1991, the artist János Nádasdy set up his object “Leine clearing out” in the horse street in front of the Begin Tower and dedicated it to Kurt Schwitters with an inscription . The three objects stacked on top of each other on a concrete base each show "found objects" from the line typical of the time.

The flea market on the Leineufer temporarily lost its popularity due to an increasing range of new goods and the emergence of additional, sometimes specialized, flea markets in and around Hanover. But in 2006, on the initiative of Th. Mayer, the Freundeskreis Altstadt-Flhmarkt was founded . In the same year, the flea market was revived under the name "Old Town Flea Market" - under the sponsorship of the tourist office and after strict rules were created .

In 2005 the footpath parallel to the Leibnizufer , on which the three Nanas are also standing, was named after the city image maintainer and flea market organizer Mike-Gehrke-Promenade . Gehrke, who was friends with Niki de Saint Phalle , was also the initiator for setting up the three Nanas in 1973.

Hannover Tourismus Service GmbH has been responsible for the old town flea market since 2008 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Flea market (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see flea market in Hanover in the web links section
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Thomas Schwark: Flea market (see literature)
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Gehrke, Mike (Michael). In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 236
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Flea market (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 17.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 49.7"  E