Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape

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Coat of arms of the Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape on a building in Göttingen
Headquarters in Hanover
Around 1850: "The landscape house in Hanover"; Steel engraving by Gustav Georg Lange .
Effective area of ​​the Calenberg-Grubenhagen landscape (dark red) in Lower Saxony

The Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape is a landscape based in Hanover . It is the representation of the estates of the former Principality of Calenberg-Grubenhagen-Göttingen as part of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Seat and history

The Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape is a historical landscape that emerged from the representative offices of former principalities. It is one of the landscapes and landscape associations in Lower Saxony .

The headquarters are in Hanover in a Tudor-style building designed by Ernst Ebeling , which was built for the landscape in 1846. The Hanover Stock Exchange has been housed here since 1923 . During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged in the air raids on Hanover and was restored in 1951 according to plans by the architect Dieter Oesterlen .

organization

The Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape is a corporation under public law . Its members are divided into three curiae . The first curia includes the knighthood ( knighthood of the former principalities of Calenberg, Grubenhagen and Göttingen ) as well as the gentry and the prelatures , the second curia the cities and the third curia the landowners.

Traditionally the abbot of the Loccum monastery is chairman of the landscape, while legal supervision lies with the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior .

The Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape is a corporation under public law and is protected by Article 72 of the Lower Saxony state constitution.

activities

The landscape supports cultural and charitable projects from the income from its property, which is primarily the Hanover Stock Exchange building . Together with the five other historical landscapes in the former Kingdom of Hanover and the Emsland landscape , it exercises its carrier rights to the Landschaftliche Brandkasse , the parent company of VGH Insurance . The knighthood is also, together with the knighthood of the former Hochstift Hildesheim , sponsor of the Calenberger Kreditverein , a public mortgage and Pfandbrief bank. It is also a member of the Southern Lower Saxony Regional Association and the Hameln-Pyrmont Regional Association .

Known members

literature

  • Wolf-Rüdiger Reinicke: Land estates in the constitutional state. Constitutional history and current legal status of the landscapes and knighthoods in Lower Saxony , at the same time dissertation 1972 at the University of Göttingen, in the series Göttingen jurisprudential studies , Volume 92, Göttingen: Schwartz, 1975, ISBN 3-509-00610-0
  • Joachim Studtmann: Coat of arms and colors of the Calenberg-Grubenhagenschen landscape , in the series Calenberg-Grubenhagensche Studien , Heft 3, Göttingen: Reise, 1968
  • 250 Years of the Landschaftliche Brandkasse Hannover , Festschrift , 2000
  • Klaus Mlynek : Calenberg-Grubenhagensche landscape. 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 , p. 106f.

Web links

Commons : Calenberg-Grubenhagensche Landschaft  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Coelln, Georg von. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 86; online through google books