Breite Straße 12A (Hanover)

Around 1910: The house at Breite Straße 12A at the corner of Ebhardtstraße was a sight as “Hanover's smallest house”: Alb offered in the corner shop next to the inn “Zurgrün Palme”. Tepe cigarettes, while further to the left a drinking hall offered liquids

Breite Strasse 12A , also Breitestrasse 12A, was the address of the “smallest house” in the old town of Hanover . It was considered a sight and was a popular photo opportunity at the beginning of the 20th century.

Around 1913: The corner building and its neighboring buildings from a greater distance

The building, which stood with its narrow side directly opposite the tower of the Aegidienkirche , survived in large parts as one of the few buildings in the area the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War . In the post-war period, the area around the smallest house in Hanover resembled a large field of rubble, while at least the facade of the house at Breite Straße 12A remained almost intact.

Web links

Commons : Breite Straße 12A  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Photograph of the building in the post-war period on mapio.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the captioning of a dot-screen photograph from around 1910
2. ↑ Compare the photography in Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1 , ed. From the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 5

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 19.9 ″  E