Am Holzgraben (Hanover)

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The street Am Holzgraben , laid out in 1888 , in the foreground on the left the Villa Köhler ;
Postcard no. 1019 of F. Karl wonders , circa 1900

Am Holzgraben in Hanover describes a street in what is now the Oststadt district . The name of the connection from Wedekindstrasse to Kleine Pfahlstrasse is reminiscent of the old path along the Holzgraben. A - reproduced - city ​​map of Hanover under the title "Honovere um 1400" showed the former Faulgraben as "Falegraven", which already in the Middle Ages flowed from the east into the city moat that enclosed Hanover as part of the city fortifications . In the 19th century the wooden ditch formed the edge of the Eilenriede and led from the New House to the Lister Tower . However, the old route was only given its official name, which is still valid today , at the time of the Kingdom of Hannover in 1845.

However, until the 19th century, the ground around the wooden trench was swampy and smelly, due to the groundwater that was still rising here at the Eilenriede, to which there were no crossings such as bridges or dams without dry feet. It was not until the Hohenzollernstrasse was built in 1888 that the conditions were fundamentally improved and the defects eliminated.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Am Holzgraben , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 17
  2. ↑ R. Hartmann : Houses and Streets of the City, Fortifications , in ders .: History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , revised reprint of the original edition from 1880, Barsinghausen: Unicum Verlag, 2013, ISBN = 978-3- 8457-0308-4, here: p. 31; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A b Wolfgang Leonhardt : "Hannoversche Stories". Reports from different parts of the city. Ed .: Working Group District History List . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , p. 45; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Hohenzollernstraße , in ders .: The street names ... , p. 120

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '7.3 "  N , 9 ° 45' 13.2"  E