Clevertor Prison

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Plan of the city of Hanover (detail) from 1822 with the prison in front of the former Cavalier Bridge

The Clevertor prison in Hannover was "probably at the end of the 17th century" built prison in Calenberger Neustadt , which until 1859 on the banks of the leash before (today) Goethe bridge stood.

history

The building "probably" built at the time of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg for so-called "embarrassing criminals" was at the end of Lange Strasse on the banks of the Leine . It stood directly in front of the former Cavalier Bridge , which is replaced by today's Goethe Bridge . The corresponding "interrogation room" was located "above the vault of the Clevertore ."

In 1738, at the time of the Electorate of Hanover and during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , the facility under the “royal criminal jurisdiction” was expanded by adding a wing along the Leine, including the Clevertore's gate house.

The prison was refurbished in 1791: two drawings of the building, which is now classicist , are attributed to court architect JB Hase . The prison now consisted of four wings with a rectangular inner courtyard. Along the Langen Strasse the building was two-story, behind it one-story, but due to the sloping position towards the Leine, it was provided with a developed “ basement ”. The prison now offered space for around 30 prisoners.

Shortly after the start of the French Revolution in 1794 the recently appointed director of the was here Hanoverian Court Theater appointed Gustav Friedrich Grossmann taken to prison. After several reprimands because of the performance of plays critical of rule, he had criticized the exploitation of the peasants and the incompetence of the rulers in another play and was then banned from practicing in the Hanoverian lands.

According to the Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 , the royal Hanoverian court physician Georg Friedrich Mühry was also a doctor of “ the orphanage and prison”.

Because around 1850, at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , there were other prisons in addition to this building such as

the building on the Leine was demolished in 1859 and the construction of the royal cell prison on (today's) Raschplatz began in its place in 1864 .

See also

literature

  • Carl Wolff : Clevertor Prison (broken down in 1859) . In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover . Volume 1, Issue 2, Part 1, ed. on behalf of the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments in the Province of Hanover by Carl Wolff, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, pp. 716f. ( Preview via google books ).
  • Arnold Nöldeke : Clevertor prison (broken down in 1859) . In: The art monuments of the city of Hanover . Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover . Reprint of the edition of The Art Monuments of the Province of Hanover . Vol. 1, H. 2, part 1, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hanover 1932, numerous illustrations. Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 , p. 716ff.
  • H. Deichert: On the history of the embarrassing administration of justice in old Hanover . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 15, 1912, pp. 97-175.
  • Klaus Mlynek : Prisons . 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. 206.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek: Prisons . (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare this section of the map from 1822 with the location of today's Goethe Bridge
  3. ↑ a b c d Arnold Nöldeke: Clevertor prison (broken down in 1859) . (see literature)
  4. ^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Cultural bloom . In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . Vol. 1: From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century . Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , here: p. 246 ( online via Google books ).
  5. ↑ Hof-Medici and Hof-Chirurgus , in: Hof- und Staats-Handbuch for the Kingdom of Hanover for the year 1846 , p. 9; Digitized via Google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 26.8 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 43.8"  E