Sleeping Beauty (Hanover)

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The Sleeping Beauty in Hanover is a well-founded in the 19th century workers - and tour - restaurant . It is regarded as the oldest beer garden in Hanover and one of the last traditional Hanoverian excursion restaurants. The location of the former dance hall in what is now the Nordstadt district is the address In den Kämpen 54 on the banks of the Leine directly on the Julius-Trip-Ring, which has been converted into a cycling and hiking trail .

history

House
Beer garden on a leash

While the half-timbered house belonging to Sleeping Beauty is said to be more than 200 years old, the excursion restaurant only opened in the early days of the German Empire in 1875. At that time, in the course of industrialization along the Leine and Ihme, many settled on the opposite bank in Linden large factories such as an ultramarine factory , an asphalt factory and the Mittelland Gummiwerke around which the quarters of the workers emerged, such as in Kochstrasse .

During the First World War , however, it was not German workers who were mostly deployed at the front, but prisoners of war from Russia who completed the approximately 600-long Leinehafen in 1917, which stretched as far as the Sleeping Beauty .

In the 1920s in particular, the Linden workers often took the whole family across the ferry from the other bank of the Leine in order to stop off at the Sleeping Beauty after work and dance, "if the money was tight". There was dancing in the garden in the evenings and on Sundays, and entry was free. In his novel Kaiserwetter , the writer Karl Jakob Hirsch set a lasting monument to the hustle and bustle in the dance hall of that time .

The former competitors of Sleeping Beauty, which today no longer exist as beer gardens, included the “ Justus Garden ” on the Ihme, the “Fössegarten” at the Fössebad , the “ Schwanenburg ” and the “ Mühlenpark ”.

As a restaurant and café garden, Sleeping Beauty did not belong to Linden, but temporarily to Herrenhausen , before the area was politically assigned to the administration of the north city.

The Steintormasch, which borders on the Sleeping Beauty, between the Leine and the Georgengarten was already protected from flooding around 1917 in connection with the construction of the Leinehafen by a dike that extended to river water art . But after the Second World War , the then operator of the tourist restaurant was in mortal danger due to the flood disaster in 1946 before she could be saved.

“ Restaurant and coffee gardens ” Sleeping Beauty: The owner Georg Rehkemper also offered “outdoor dancing”;
Postcard , Verlag H. Lukow, 1950s

In the post-war period , the Sleeping Beauty Bridge was built between Brakebuschstrasse in Linden-Nord and Wikopweg in 1959 . It received its official name because, according to the Hanover address book of the following year, because "the bridge leads to the recreation area in which the family café of the same name is located."

Shortly before, in 1954, the painter Christa Reinhardt , who came from Upper Silesia , took over Sleeping Beauty, which she then directed for six decades. Before her death in 2015, she left Edelgard Bulmahn 40 of her oil paintings, most of which were made in the 1980s. When Sleeping Beauty had been vacant for a long time after the artist's death, Edelgard Bulmahn donated Reinhardt's paintings to the “Project.Dornröschen” association. The association wanted to acquire the Sleeping Beauty and, among other things, use the proceeds from the sale of the pictures to revive the traditional restaurant business as a model project that integrates the labor market. The plan was to be able to integrate refugees into the labor market through training in Sleeping Beauty . At the request of Edelgard Bulmahn, the appraiser Holger Grimm and the Hannoversche Künstlerverein (HKV) organized a sales opening in the Hanoverian Künstlerhaus in mid-2016 .

The owner of the property, a community of heirs who wanted the Sleeping Beauty to continue in the spirit of the deceased previous owner, finally sold the beer garden to the house managers. Before the new opening in May 2018, initially only for the summer season, the facility underwent a general renovation, but while preserving the legacy of Christa Reinhardt. In addition to a rose wallpaper in front of the sanitary rooms, for example, the previous owner's plush seating set remained in the “club room […].

Others

From Sleeping Beauty, the former Gerhard-Uhlhorn Church on the other side can be clearly seen. From the bank, guests can watch the water sports of the sports clubs in the immediate vicinity: the WSC Hannover is Hanover's first and only water ski club and shares the terrain of the river at the Julius-Trip-Ring with the Kanu-Sport-Club Hannover (KSC).

Web links

Commons : Sleeping Beauty  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hans Werner Dannowski : "We can only show off with the Herrenhausen Gardens." Herrenhausen , in ders .: Hanover - far from near: Out and about in city districts , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , pp. 45-74; here: p. 61f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c Torsten Bachmann : Linden. Forays through history , Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-112-5 , p. 52; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b c Saskia Döhner: From the city / Nordstadt / So was the new start in "Sleeping Beauty" , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) from May 23, 2018, last accessed on June 9, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c d Gesine Krüger, Thomas Neumann: Tour 11: Herrenhausen. A bad bush in the Green Museum , in Ingo Bultmann, Thomas Neumann, Jutta Schiecke (eds.): Hanover on foot. 18 district tours through past and present , Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 1989, ISBN 978-3-87975-471-7 and ISBN 3-87975-471-3 , pp. 161–171; here: p. 169f.
  5. ↑ a b Silke Beck, Martina Schunke: Sleeping Beauty , in Silke Beck (Red.): The Julius Trip Ring. Discover green Hanover by bike close to the city! , Leaflet with explanations and a sketched city map section for the cycle path around the city center of Hanover, publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hanover, the Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Green, Hanover: LHH, 2016; also as a PDF document from hannover.de
  6. ^ A b Wolfgang Leonhardt : Leinehafen , in ders .: "Hannoversche Stories". Reports from different parts of the city. Working Group District History List , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009/2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , passim ; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Dornröschenbrücke , in which: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 63
  8. ↑ Juliane Kaune: Nordstadt / "Sleeping Beauty" should be brought back to life , article on the HAZ website from May 14, 2016, last accessed on June 9, 2018
  9. ↑ Juliane Kaune: Hannover Leineufer Biergarten Dornröschen opens again , article on the page of the Göttinger Tageblatt from May 7, 2018, last accessed on June 9, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 46.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 12.7"  E