Bödekerstrasse 58

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The renovated neo-Gothic residential and commercial building at Bödekerstraße 58 at the corner of Kleine Pfahlstraße in the eastern part of Hanover

The building at Bödekerstraße 58 in Hanover is considered to be one of the most beautiful neo-Gothic brick residential buildings in northern Germany . The residential and commercial building built at the end of the 19th century and now a listed building on Bödekerstraße at the corner of Kleine Pfahlstraße can be found in the Hanover district of Oststadt .

History and description

The corner building was built in the early days of the German Empire according to plans by the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp , a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase , for the a. D. Wilhelm Boehme and Wilhelm Kröpcke , the former head waiter of the then named after him Café Kröpcke and today's place Kröpcke . The house was actually completed between 1895 and 1897.

The building survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II unscathed - but less so than the “ concrete building frenzy ” that set in at the end of the 1960s : in 1969 , the building authorities allowed the ground floor to be clad with light gray panels made of exposed aggregate concrete on behalf of the then Stadtsparkasse .

After the Stadtsparkasse had cleared the ground floor in 2001, the owner of the house at the time, Rolf-Günter Schmedes , invested more than 150,000 euros in the restoration of the ground floor, which was almost true to the original , supported by a subsidy of 10% from the preservation department . After removal of concrete slabs around 8500 manually produced were clinker also missing former used in 18 different shapes and colors to restore the brick walls and lancet windows of the building, later the front yard of the building re-established.

Even though the owner of the house at the time, who as the general manager of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as the director of a guarantee bank, had already been committed to the common good many times , certainly also pursued his own material interest with his investment, his commitment was considered exemplary in terms of the beautification of the cityscape of the Lower Saxony state capital: After the unanimous assessment of a jury, the Friends of Hanover awarded the house owner Rolf-Günter Schmedes the city ​​culture prize on March 5, 2003 . With the associated split prize money of 2000 euros at the time, the laudator Erwin Schütterle expressed the hope during the award ceremony that "[...] the owner could use it to obtain the plaque desired by the city ".

Archival material

An archive to the building can be found, for example,

  • Original drawings by the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp "[...] in the University of Berlin"

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Erwin Schütterle: Stadtkulturpreis 2003 / Engaging, Initiating, Investing ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Laudation (PDF document) for the award of the City Culture Prize by the Friends of Hanover on March 5, 2003, p. 3 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freundeskreis-hannover.de
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Café Kröpcke. 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. 104f .; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Klomp, Johannes Franziskus in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on December 1, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 10.2 ″  E