Bovehaus

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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 20.7 "  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 46"  E

Bovehaus in Hamburg-Wandsbek, front view

The Bovehaus is a listed former merchant's villa in the Hamburg district of Wandsbek . Today's two-story building was built in a country house style in 1861 according to plans by the architect Georg Luis and later served as a mayor's apartment, local history museum and kindergarten, among other things. It has been used as an office building since the modernization in 1999.

history

Coat of arms of the Bove family above the entrance

The corner property on today's Neumann-Reichardt- / Bovestrasse has been owned by the Wandsbeck merchant family Bove since 1794. At that time, Christian Bove I (1742–1828, from Langwedel near Kiel ) acquired the approximately 8000 m 2 site from the Hamburg senior citizen Moritz Hartung and built his first summer house.

In 1861 Christian Bove II (1812–1884), who had previously made his fortune in Argentina through cattle breeding and the trade in animal products, had a representative house built here for his family after his return. After his death, his son Christian Bove III took over. (1852–1895, born in La Plata ) inherited from his father and had the originally single-storey house expanded. When he died in a hunting accident in 1895, the company ran into economic difficulties, so that the Wandsbeker property had to be sold.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the building became the property of the city and was initially used as an official residence for the mayors of Wandsbek, Erich Wasa Rodig (term of office 1913–1931) and Friedrich Ziegler (1931–1938). The Wandsbeker Heimatmuseum was also housed in the basement until 1937 . After that, the building was used as a Hitler Youth home; after 1945 a kindergarten was established here.

Plans to leave the building to the neighboring Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium for use could not be realized in the early 1990s. After the Bovehaus had been unused for several years, the City of Hamburg finally sold the property with the building to a private investor in 1999. It was then modernized and converted into office space by the Hamburg architect Bernd Lietzke.

Significance in building history

Staircase with wood paneling and stucco ceiling (1999)
Interior view after the restoration (1999)

Externally, the sober building shows only a few representative elements (columns on the garden side, bay windows, family coat of arms). The originally rich interior (stucco ceilings, wood paneling, fixtures) has only been partially preserved as a result of many years of public use and the associated renovations.

A special architectural feature is the rather untypical use of brick for the entire facade of the representative residential building around 1860 . It is assumed that Luis, as a pupil of the Hamburg building director Carl Ludwig Wimmel , continued his predilection for brick, as he used it for various public buildings in Hamburg at the same time.

Due to its (structural) historical importance, the Bovehaus was placed under monument protection in 1999 and also included as a station in the "Wandsbek Historical Tour".

literature

  • Helmuth Fricke , Michael Pommerening, Georg-Wilhelm Röpke: Wandsbek in words and pictures. Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9807460-0-3 .
  • Helmuth Fricke: Hamburg-Wandsbek (series archive images), Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-663-5 .
  • Michael Pommerening, Joachim W. Frank: The Wandsbeker Castle. Mühlenbek-Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-9807460-3-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bovehaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fricke / Pommerening / Röpke: Wandsbek in words and pictures , p. 58.
  2. ^ Pommerening / Frank: Das Wandsbeker Schloss , p. 66.
  3. ↑ Fricke: Hamburg-Wandsbek , p. 28.
  4. ↑ Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium: CPG through the ages. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
  5. ^ Architects' office Bernd Lietzke: Project overview. Retrieved August 27, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Culture Authority: List of monuments, excerpt for the Wandsbek district, status: August 12, 2013. (PDF; 1.6 MB) Retrieved August 27, 2013 . (serial no. 23262).
  7. ↑ Information flyer on the historical tour of Wandsbek. (PDF; 1.4 MB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved August 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wandsbek.de