At the Kehr again

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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 46.3 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 10.8 ″  E The street Am Kehrwieder is located in the south of downtown Hildesheim in the Neustadt district. Because of its well-preserved half-timbered houses and because of the Kehrwiederturm , one of the main attractions of the city, it is one of the streets in Hildesheim most visited by tourists.

View through the street Am Kehrwieder to the Kehrwiederturm .
View of the former New Hohnser Tor.

Position and length

With a length of only 63 m, the street “Am Kehrwieder” is one of the shortest streets in Hildesheim and at the same time one of the narrowest. The house numbers only range from No. 1 to No. 4. It leads from Keßlerstrasse to the south, through the gate under the Kehrwiederturm to the Kehrwiederturm.

Origin of the name and history

A look at the city map of Hildesheim makes it clear that the ramparts and fortifications in the south of the Neustadt district not far from the “Lappenberg” road form a clear bend and bend sharply to the south-southwest. For the 30 m high fortification tower, which was built around 1300 in the area of ​​this bend, the name "Kehrwiederturm" became established around 1600; its original name has not been passed down. Possibly it was called "Kehrwehrturm". The gate below him was called "New Hohnser Tor" and referred to the southern village of Hohnsen , which became a desert in the Middle Ages . There is a legend about the tower that a noble young lady from Hildesheim in the forest, who in the Middle Ages still reached right up to the city, got lost and found her way back to the city by ringing a bell in the tower.

View from the former New Hohnser Tor into the street Am Kehrwieder .

The narrow street, which led from the Keßlerstraße through the still-preserved pointed arched gate under the Kehrwiederturm, is already marked on the map from 1767, but has not yet been given its current name. In her case it was not a trade route or arterial route. Presumably it served as a cattle drive , because not a few residents of the Neustadt were arable citizens who grazed their animals on the ramparts and south of the city, and who were not supposed to drive their cattle through the busy Goschenstrasse and the busy Goschentor. It is possible that the street known today as “Am Kehrwieder” and the New Hohnser Tor under the Kehrwiederturm were also laid out for strategic reasons, so that the ramparts could be reached and defended more quickly from the city in the event of war.

The street “Am Kehrwieder” was officially given its current name in 1903.

particularities

The narrow lane Am Kehrwieder is one of the most popular photo opportunities for visitors to Hildesheim, not least because of the ancient street lamp on the east side of the street and because of the New Hohnser Tor with its pointed, Gothic -looking arch. The fact that even churches and important sights in Hildesheim have a sign with a house number - the Kehrwiederturm has house number 2 - always arouses astonishment. The half-timbered house at Am Kehrwieder No. 3 is noticeable because the first floor overhangs the ground floor by almost 1 m and thus has a significantly larger usable area. House No. 4, also a half-timbered house, belongs to a café, the entrance of which is on the corner of Keßlerstraße and Am Kehrwieder .

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Häger, Hartmut: Hildesheimer Straßen, p. 10. Hildesheim 2005.
  2. Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, S. 160. Hameln 2007.
  3. Dr. Zoder, Rudolf: Die Hildesheimer Straßen, p. 12. Hildesheim 1957.
  4. Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, p. 161. Hameln 2007.