Clevertor

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The Clevertor in the city ​​fortifications of Hanover
New Clevertor around 1840
Restored remains of the guard in front of the employment agency on Brühlstrasse
1822: former location of the guard in front of the Clevertor

As a city ​​gate, the Clevertor in Hanover was part of the medieval city ​​fortifications of Hanover . It was created as the northern exit of the Calenberger Neustadt , after it was included in the fortification ring of Hanover in 1650. It was initially called Brühler Tor , as the path led towards a desert called Brühl . It was later renamed after the baker Heinrich Cleve, who lived near the gate and was over a hundred years old.

The three gate systems

The first installation was probably an arched passage through the wall with a kink in the middle.

In 1712, as part of the expansion of the Marstall, the wall and the moat between the stone gate and the Clevertor were moved outwards. The Clevertor was rebuilt and the outer gate building was built as a new building. The gate was demolished in 1780 and rebuilt in 1781 on the other side of the Linen at the current location of the employment office.

The third system, which was built on Brühlstrasse (before the confluence of Escherstrasse) in the course of the town's defenses, consisted of four stone posts and lattice gates between them. In 1859 the Clevertor was torn down.

The guard house

In 1790, in front of the Clevertor Bridge on the right, a new guardhouse in classicist form was built, which was only demolished in 1885. In 1980 the gable triangle of the guard house with the monogram of King George III. Surprisingly unearthed again in the courtyard of the Lower Saxony State Museum . According to a design by Hartmut Millarg , it was set up again opposite the original place in front of today's employment office in a gate stylized as a metal frame.

Residents and businesses

"BEMBA" - punch at the Maschpark Bridge

The Locksmith by Rudolf Bemba, according to the address book, city and business Manual of the Royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden in 1907 on the ground floor of the building Clevertor 2g resident, created the wrought-iron railing of the Maschpark Bridge .

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the province of Hanover. City of Hanover . 2 parts, 1932, here: T. 1, p. 70f.
  • Helmut Plath : Hanover in the picture of the centuries . 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack & Co., Hannover 1966, p. 20.
  • Franz Rudolf Zankl : View through the Clever-Tor into town. Watercolor. Around 1830 . In: ders. (Ed.): Hannover Archive . Sheet S 28 . (Probably wrongly printed by mistake, because according to the table of contents page 28 is assigned with a picture and explanations about the Kröpcke around 1950 ... In fact, the numbering for the Clevertor would be, also according to the table of contents, page 48. )
  • Helmut Knocke : Clevertor Bridge . 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 , here: p. 115.

Web links

Commons : Clevertor (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Matthias Blazek: At the Clevertor in Hanover - "prison" and Roß-Arzney school .
  2. ^ According to Burchard Christian von Spilcker : Historical-topographical-statistical description of the royal residence city of Hanover . Hanover 1819, p. 11 Cleve was immediately chosen as the namesake.
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Clevertor Bridge . P. 115.
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : 67 Brühlstraße… In: Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Hanover art and culture lexicon , manual and city guide . 4th edition, to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007.
  5. ^ Compare the address book from 1907 , Section I, p. 629.
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, this photo documentation via Wikimedia Commons .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27.7 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 44"  E