Architects' Quarter (Hanover)

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Residential house bungalow in Morgensternweg with monument plaque

The architects' quarter in Hanover is a listed building ensemble . The settlement comprises more than 50 parcels , which were built with bungalows in a closed manner according to designs by various architects . The district includes addresses in Morgensternweg, Ringelnatzweg and along Alte Herrenhäuser Straße, west of the Graft am Großer Garten in Hanover-Herrenhausen .

History and description

Row houses, accessed by a footpath
Angular bungalow on Morgensternweg 17
The city board No. 125 for Rudolf Christfreund was originally installed at Morgensternweg 6 B in 1967

In the area of ​​the former lordly Hofgestüt Herrenhausen , which was laid out in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1844 and closed in 1928 , an area for single-family houses with flat roofs was created for the first time after the Second World War in the city of Hanover .

In the years from 1958 to 1961, more than 50 plots of land were built on according to plans by architects Friedrich Lindau , Siegfried Erlhoff , Rolf Wékel , Walter Hämer , Linda Bluta-Mehmel and others, which are accessible through sparingly laid out "residential paths" and their development to this day has remained largely unchanged.

Bungalows can be found in the overall appearance of the architects' quarter

  1. as a white plastered cube such as in Ringelnatzweg 6;
  2. as an angular building with separate living and sleeping quarters, especially in Ringelnatzweg 7 and Morgensternweg 17
  3. or as a solitary building in which the location of the interior cannot be seen from the outside, such as on Ringelnatzweg 5.

The stand-alone building at Ringelnatzweg 5 also shows a special feature - as a “quote” to the architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - a fully glazed wall area facing the garden, and at the same time a level access to the terrace.

By Ernst Zinsser in cooperation with the site manager “B. Borchers ”, the“ Prof. Wilde house ”was built in 1961 at Ringelnatzweg 12 .

In 2011, as part of the laying of new power lines by the energy supplier enercity , and as part of the city's traffic safety obligation , the city of Hanover dismantled the historic street lights from the 1950s on the private property and replaced them with newer lighting systems in public spaces : the new lamps would be not illuminate half private properties, achieved a higher efficiency, correspond to "the lighting design needs" and the energy used would use more efficient overall, it was called after a request from the SPD - faction in the county council Herrhausen sticks to the city administration Hannover . After the work was completed, however, the historic clinker pavement was restored to its original state.

literature

  • Cultural monuments Lower Saxony , November 27, 1996, reference number 201000.04564, p. 79
  • Ralph Haas: Prof. Wilde's house, Ringelnatzweg 12, 1961 in ders .: Ernst Zinsser, life and work of an architect in the fifties in Hanover. (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover , Vol. 15), also dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, ed. by Günther Kokkelink , Institute for Building and Art History, 1st edition, Hanover: Institute for Building and Art History, 2000, ISBN 3-931585-11-5 , p. 133

See also

Web links

Commons : Architects' Quarter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kristian Teetz: Nord / Herrenhausen / Stadt Hannover dismantles historical street lamps ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 9th 2011, last accessed on April 24th 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: "Architects' quarter " and overview map In this: Architectural Guide Hanover. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 123, v. a. P. 131
  3. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek : Herrenhausen. 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 , pp. 289f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Journal of stud customer and horse breeding , Vols 25-26, Hannover: Schaper, 1930, S. 90;. limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ A b Ralph Haas: Prof. Wilde's house, Ringelnatzweg 12, 1961 in ders .: Ernst Zinsser, life and work of an architect in the fifties in Hanover. (= Writings of the Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover , Vol. 15), at the same time dissertation 1999 at the University of Hanover, 1st edition, ed. by Günther Kokkelink, Institute for Building and Art History, Hanover: Institute for Building and Art History, 2000, ISBN 3-931585-11-5 , p. 133

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 29 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 26.8"  E