Conti block

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The Conti-Block in Hanover was actually a provisional store block in the center of the Lower Saxony state capital at the end of the 1940s , but which was then to remain in place of today's Kröpcke Center for around two decades .

history

After the Hotel Continental and the Café Continental of the same name had been completely destroyed by the aerial bombs during the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the triangular property in the center of Hanover was initially to be reserved for future larger urban development projects. Because of the demand for retail space then arose after the Hannoversche Presse in 1947 designed by the architect on February 18, Ernst Friedrich Ludwig Brockmann had published, after all, designed by architect Karl Siebrecht 1949 only as a temporary imaginary, 2- to 3-storey shop block under the flat roof . One of the tenants - at the old location - was the optician WL Becker .

In 1950 , the Amerikahaus was integrated into the Conti-Block, on the side along Ständehausstrasse , at the opening of which the American High Commissioner John Jay McCloy , accompanied by his wife, gave a speech and then toured the building.

The Conti-Block was only one of several temporary structures in Hanover after the war, but it was also the largest, most architecturally demanding and most durable: The "temporary" was only demolished in 1970 due to the construction of the Kröpcke underground station , and later the Kröpcke -Center to be built.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke : Conti-Block. 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. 117.
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1947. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 212; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Heinz Lauenroth , Ewald Brix , Herbert Mundhenke : Becker Optik, Dammstrasse 9 Hannover Georgstrasse 20 / Springe, Lange Str. 23, Hameln, Bäckerstr, 7. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954 , publisher: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag Kommandit -Gesellschaft, Hanover (Seelhorststrasse 46), September 1954, p. 300
  4. ↑ Erika J. Fischer, Heinz-D. Fischer (ed.): John J. McCloys speeches on Germany and Berlin issues. Journalistic activities and speeches 1949 - 1952 (= Political Documents , Vol. 9), Berlin: Berlin-Verlag Spitz, 1986, ISBN 978-3-87061-318-1 , p. 81; Preview over google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 25.3 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 19.1"  E