Bennostrasse (Hildesheim)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 42 ″  E

The "Yellow School", Bennostraße 2

The Bennostraße is a historic street in the west of Hildesheim in the district Moritzberg in which several attractions that shape the image of the neighborhood crucial.

Position and length

The 325 m long Bennostraße branches off from the Bergstraße to the south in the area of ​​the small square "Am Bergbrunnen" . The house numbers range from no. 1 to no. 11, with Bennostraße rising steeply to the level of house no. 7 on the slope of the Katzberg and then descending towards Mittelallee . The 90 m long Kleine Steuer , which branches off uphill to the west opposite house No. 7, and the 120 m long Probsteiweg leading downhill to the east between houses No. 9 and 11, should be mentioned on side streets . South of the provost path runs the Benno road through the forest Berghoelzchen until at the corner of Benno castle in the street at the Katz mountain passes.

history

Bennostraße is one of the oldest streets in Hildesheim's Moritzberg district , which was incorporated into Hildesheim as a patch in 1911. In the Middle Ages, the place, which was often called "Bergflecken Moritzberg" or "Bergdorf", was surrounded by a wall with a moat, but not by a wall. On Bennostraße there was one of the three gates of the fortification ring, which was first mentioned in a document in 1430 and named after the nearby Katzberg hill . The oldest building on Bennostraße that is still preserved today is house number 3, which was built in 1751 as a brewery . The beer tax in the Moritzberg district was lower than in the city of Hildesheim, so that there were numerous restaurants in the mountain village and several breweries were worthwhile to operate. A Jewish cemetery that still exists today was laid out on Bennostraße to the south of the Katztores and thus outside of the area at the end of the 18th century. The Katztor in Bennostrasse was demolished around 1832. At the beginning of the 20th century, a representative and widely visible school building was built at the northern end of Bennostraße, which still shapes the image of the entire district and is known as the "Yellow School". In the historic brewery in house no. 3 there was a restaurant called "Altes Brauhaus" until the 1970s.

The Second World War, withstood the Bennostraße undamaged.

Origin of the street name

After the building of the brewery at Bennostraße 3, the name "Brauhausstraße" soon became popular, with which today's Bennostraße was recorded in the address book of the mountain town of Moritzberg in 1855. However, the street was renamed in the 1880s after another street - the connection between Dingworthstrasse and Im Bockfelde - was named "Brauhausstrasse" in the mountain village in 1885. In the address book of 1889, the current name "Bennostraße" appears for the first time officially, and it refers to the builder of the nearby Mauritius Church , Dompropst Benno von Schwaben, who built the church on behalf of Bishop Hezilo (1054–79).

Buildings and special features

  • At the beginning of Bennostraße, at house number 1A on the corner of Bergstraße, you will notice a wall made of natural stones, on which a stone relief with a depiction of the patron saint of the mountain town Moritzberg, St. Mauritius, from 1730 can be seen.

For centuries, life in the mountain village of Moritzberg was strongly influenced by Catholicism . The half-timbered house behind the wall is a former monastery courtyard of the Mauritius Church.

  • One of the most striking buildings in the entire district is Bennostraße 2, the four-storey building of the Protestant elementary and secondary school, built between 1913 and 1915, which has been known in Hildesheim for decades as the "Yellow School" because of the yellow plaster. As the terrain is very steep, the school was surrounded by a retaining wall made of sandstone and built on a base made of sandstone blocks . The building is structured by cornices and can be reached from the street via stairs through a representative portal , the architectural style of which is based on the Baroque .
  • Opposite is the Old Brewery , built in 1751 , with another stone relief of St. Mauritius above the entrance. A restaurant called "Altes Brauhaus" was operated in the house until the 1970s. Before it was incorporated into Hildesheim in 1911, there were numerous restaurants on the Moritzberg, as the beer tax in the mountain town of Moritzberg was considerably lower than in the city of Hildesheim.
  • The two-story building at Bennostraße 4 is another school building that is structurally connected to the Bennostraße 2 building and forms a single complex with it. It was inaugurated on April 23, 1900 for four classes as the first new school building in the mountain town of Moritzberg. Before that, Bergstrasse 63 served as a girls 'school and Bergstrasse 78 as a boys' school. Lessons had to take place there in very cramped conditions due to the strong increase in the population of the mountain village during the early days of the company . The building was erected as a relatively simple, plastered structure. It is noticeable that windows, doors and building corners are highlighted by red brick.
  • A clear contrast to this is the Lasallesche Haus, Bennostraße 7, which - set back several meters from the street - was built towards the end of the 19th century in the neoclassical style. The three- story north wing with its tent roof stands out clearly from the two-story south wing with a cornice and a gable roof . On the west side facing Bennostraße, which is loosened up by different windows - some are arched and twin windows - the roofs of the windows are noticeable. One of the outbuildings, which was built directly on Bennostraße, served as an orangery.
  • Opposite house no. 11 is the Jewish cemetery, which was laid out outside the mountain village of Moritzberg 1800–49. There are 29 tombstones with Hebrew, German and, in two cases, English inscription, which were placed horizontally in 1960. The cemetery is located on Bennostraße in the area of ​​the Berghölzchen , a wooded hill.
  • At the south-western end of Bennostrasse, not far from the corner with Bennoburg , a stone cross from the middle of the 19th century is also worth seeing in the Berghölzchen area . It served as a station for corridor and Corpus Christi processions and indicates the rural structure of the mountain town of Moritzberg, which was shaped by Catholicism for centuries . The floor cross was erected a few meters west of Bennostraße, it is surrounded by bushes and old trees and its design is strikingly simple.

gallery

  • Old brewery (1751)

  • Relief of St. Mauritius at the old brewery

  • Old School (1900), Bennostraße 4

  • Lasallean house

  • Relief (1730) of St. Mauritius

  • Jewish Cemetery

  • Old floor cross

literature

  • Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 63-64

Web links

Commons : Bennostraße, Hildesheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, vol. 14.1, p. 173. Hameln 2007.
  2. ↑ Dr. Zoder, Rudolf. Die Hildesheimer Straßen, p. 24. Hildesheim 1957.
  3. ↑ Dr. Zoder, Rudolf. Die Hildesheimer Straßen, p. 20. Hildesheim 1957.
  4. ↑ Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, Vol. 14.1, p. 175. Hameln 2007.
  5. ↑ Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, Vol. 14.1, p. 176. Hameln 2007.
  6. ↑ Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, vol. 14.1, p. 177. Hameln 2007.
  7. ^ Günther Hein et al .: Stifts Freiheit and Bergdorf , p. 171. Hildesheim 1998.
  8. ^ Günther Hein et al .: Stifts Freiheit and Bergdorf , p. 170. Hildesheim 1998.
  9. ↑ Segers-Glocke, Christiane: Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, Vol. 14.1, p. 185. Hameln 2007.