Capitol skyscraper

Capitol skyscraper

The Capitol in Hanover is a traditional event center. It is located in the Linden-Mitte district near the Ihme-Zentrum at the Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge on the Schwarzer Bär square .

history

The forerunner of today's skyscraper was Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves' first own villa at the Schwarzen Bären (far left), which was later used as the August Söhlmann leather factory and “photographic studio” for various photographers; Photo before 1890

Entrance area of ​​the Capitol

A previous building was the villa built by the royal Hanoverian court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves as the first private house, which "was probably demolished in 1910 in connection with the new construction of the Ihmebrücke".

Today's Capitol event center is housed in the Capitol high-rise. As a former cinema, it was converted into a disco and live stage in the 1980s and since then has served in particular as a venue for events with an audience of up to 1,800. Occasionally, films were shown again on a large screen. The Capitol is operated by a subsidiary of Hannover Concerts .

Architectural style

The tower-like building of the Capitol high-rise is attributed to the style of expressionist architecture (" brick expressionism "). It was created in 1930 based on plans by the architect Friedrich Hartjenstein .

Other buildings of this type and era in Hanover are:

• the Franzius Institute (then: Institute for Civil Engineering ) on Nienburger Strasse, completed in 1926 based on a design by Franz Erich Kassbaum
• the new building of the Hanover City Library on Hildesheimer Strasse, completed in 1931 according to plans by Karl Elkart (as the first library high-rise in Europe)
• Anzeiger high-rise built in 1927/28 as a publishing house for the Madsack publishing company based on a design by Fritz Höger

See also : Brick Expressionism in Hanover

literature

• Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Capitolhaus. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 128, as well as Linden-Mitte in the appendix List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 22f.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Black Bear. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 198
• Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: Architekturführer Hannover (= Architectural guide to Hannover ), with an introduction by Stefan Amt, Berlin: Reimer, 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 119
• Helmut Knocke: Capitol high-rise. 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. 108.

Movies

• Face of a city. Hanover around 1930 , film Germany 1932/1981, sequence 14 (13:40 to 14:15 minutes)

Web links

Commons : Capitol-Hochhaus (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Schwarzer Bär 2 skyscraper, Linden-Mitte as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
• Internet presence of the Capitol
• Historic postcards of the Capitol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hugo Thielen: Capitol high-rise (see literature)
2. ↑ Information in the imprint on capitol-hannover.de, accessed on August 24, 2016
3. ↑ Face of a City (sequence listing) , accessed June 8, 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '5.5 "  N , 9 ° 43' 13.7"  E