Am Steintor (Hanover)
Am Steintor in Hanover is the name of a square that has been converted into a pedestrian zone in Hanover's Mitte district on the edge of the city center. The square, created in the 1950s, is near the stone gate that was demolished at the beginning of the 18th century. It was a city gate in the city wall of the medieval city fortifications of Hanover .
location
At the Steintor is the western end of the inner-city pedestrian area , which connects the Steintor via Georgstraße with the city center on Kröpcke , about half a kilometer away . Münzstraße (see Königliche Münze am Steintor ) and Goseriede (see Goseriedebad ) form the north-west bypass of the square. Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse begins in the north at Goseriede .
history
In the original approach to the northern entrance to the city, today roughly along Steintorstrasse , was the Steintor, first mentioned in 1314, whose gate tower stood in the course of the city wall. All the systems here have not been preserved. The mayor of Hanover, Christian Ulrich Grupen , added a picture of the gate that was broken off in 1741, drawn by EE Braun and engraved by JG Schmidt , in his Chronicle Origines Et Antiqvitates Hanoverenses , published in 1740 ... It shows the area around the old St. Nicholas in front of the city -Cemetery with the Nikolaikapelle and the area of the Klagesmarkt .
When the demolished city walls were gradually built over from 1780, the city gates had become meaningless. In the course of time, busy squares emerged in their place, whose name reminds of the original meaning.
Corpse - procession out of the stone gate to the old St. Nikolai cemetery in the " stone gate "; Engraving around 1740
View from Georgstrasse to the artillery barracks at the Steintor around 1850
Present shape
Today there is a red light district in the immediate vicinity of the 3,000 m² Steintorplatz and Reitwallstraße , which is also a popular trendy district with clubs, discos and pubs. In summer, large beach volleyball events are regularly held on the square .
On the east side of the square is the two-storey stone gate block from 1954 as a block of houses with shops. The Gänseliesel fountain, created by Carl Dopmeyer in 1898, is located on the northeast edge of Steintor-Platz . As a bronze statue, it depicts the figure of a goose-herding girl. The fountain was set up at this point because the Goseriede ( Low German for a run-out area for geese) was located here. Ried is actually the name for a swampy area and occurs more often in the Hanoverian language, such as the directly adjacent street Goseriede , the streets Steinriede , Tiefenriede , An der Strangriede and the Stadtwald Eilenriede .
Diagonally across from Steintorplatz in the area of the former Goseriede was the Goseriedebad with a women's and a men's wing. Today the Kestnergesellschaft , one of Hanover's two art associations, is housed in the former women's wing and the former swimming pool . Radio ffn is located in the former men's wing . Also on the Goseriede is the Anzeiger high-rise , built in 1928 in the style of brick expressionism, today a landmark of the city. The high-rise light plays , the highest cinema in Germany, are located under its dome .
Metro station
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The Steintor underground station on the C-line of the Stadtbahn is located under the square . To the west of the station, the C-West line branches off towards Stöcken and Garbsen and the C-North line towards Nordhafen and Halthoffstraße. Since this branch was not provided for in the original subway planning, the station was only built with two tracks and not three tracks as is usual with such branching stations .
On the -3 level there is another subway station, partly in the shell, which was built as a preliminary construction work for a fourth subway tunnel (D-route) planned earlier.
The above-ground Steintor stop on tram lines 10 and 17 in Kurt-Schumacher-Straße was equipped with two striking stop structures by Alessandro Mendini as part of the BUSSTOPS art project . Since December 2018, after the barrier-free expansion of this route, the trams have stopped at the new Steintor elevated platform in Münzstraße.
literature
- Arnold Nöldeke : City gates. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hannover 1932, pp. 52f., 60, 62, 71-73
- as reprint : Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1
- Helmut Knocke : Stone gate. 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. 602.
- Bernhard Dörries, Helmuth Plath : The stone gate. In: Old Hanover. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500–1900 , fourth, improved edition, Heinrich Feesche Verlag, Hanover 1977, ISBN 3-87223-0247 , pp. 88, 138, 140 (illustration and explanation of the lithographer Carl Mentzel )
- Franz Rudolf Zankl : traffic management and design of the square at the stone gate. Colored floor plan of the building administration 1949 In: Hannover Archive . Supplementary edition , sheet EH 84
Web links
- Interactive 360 ° panorama photo of the stone gate and its surroundings
- Description of the course ( memorial from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 84f.
- ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Am Steintor , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 21
- ^ Digitized version of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel, p. 70a
- ↑ https://e-government.hannover-stadt.de/lhhsimwebre.nsf/DS/15-0405-2016F1
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '33 " N , 9 ° 43' 57" E