Continental skyscraper

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The Continental skyscraper (also: Conti skyscraper ) in Hanover , built in 1953, was the tallest skyscraper in West Germany at the time and the headquarters of Continental AG's headquarters . The listed building complex at Königsworther Platz 1 in the Mitte district is now used by the University of Hanover .

history

Prehistory to 1945

The predecessor building on the site was the Garde-du-Corps - barracks , which was built in 1771 as the oldest barracks in Hanover from a mule and pack stable built in 1738.

After the First World War , the building complex served as an employment office in the Weimar Republic from 1918 .

The barracks were largely destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during World War II. The baroque gate portal, designed by Johann Paul Heumann in 1736 and undamaged, with the British royal coat of arms from the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , was moved in 1955 next to the New Town Hall on Rudolf-Hillebrecht-Platz , the seat of the municipal building administration - today the department of planning and urban development.

Construction from 1949

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... emphasized the new "city entrance" from Bremer Damm in terms of urban planning ...
... and at the time it was the tallest skyscraper in Germany.

For the new headquarters of Continental AG, not the Maschsee , as originally intended, was designated in 1949 , but the Königsworther Platz: According to an urban planning concept by Konstanty Gutschow , which was intended to emphasize the new "city entrance" from Bremer Damm , which was created at the same time as the construction , after an architectural competition based on designs by Ernst Zinsser and Werner Dierschke, the current buildings were built between 1951 and 1953.

The result is a set-back 15-storey high-rise building 65 meters high, in front of which a 6-storey management wing was built, offset almost parallel, which is accentuated by a "swinging entrance roof" in the style of the 1950s .

The Continental administration building was awarded the Laves Prize , which the jury associated with the following verdict:

“The building complex was developed logically from the urban development functions of the square. It is artistically impressive and correctly scaled and expresses the representative requirements of the client with appropriate means. "

- Georg Barke, Wilhelm Hatopp : New building in Hanover: building owners, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954

Since 1995, the building complex has served as the center of the “Conti-Campus” of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover with a focus on literature and languages, economics and law.

Buildings in the courtyard

In the courtyard is the former computer center, also built by Ernst Zinsser in 1966/67, which today houses part of the technical information library.

In 1993, a lecture hall was added in the courtyard by the Cologne architect Michael Durdiak , which essentially consists of a two-storey cube for a lecture hall for 450 people.

The light objects "Crystallization Points" by Michael Cordes have been in the courtyard since 2000 .

Reception hall of the former management building

literature

  • Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: Architekturführer Hannover = Architectural guide to Hannover , text in German and English, with an introduction by Stefan Amt , translated and summarized by Margaret Marks, Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , P. 12.
  • Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch: The University of Hanover. Their buildings, their gardens, their planning history , ed. on behalf of the Presidium of the University of Hanover, Imhof, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , pp. 257-266.
  • Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Königsworther Platz 1 / Conti (nental) high-rise. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 156
  • Helmut Knocke: Conti (nental) 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. 118.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , center annex . In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Knocke: Conti (nental) -Hochhaus (see literature)
  3. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek : Barracks. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 339.
  4. ^ A b Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Rudolf-Hillebrecht-Platz 1. Municipal building management. In: Hanover. Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 190f.
  5. ↑ Christian Krause: "Drei-Brötchen-Haus" towers above Hanover ( Memento from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: ndr.de , May 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): Administration building of the Continental , in this: New building in Hanover: Builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23) , Vol. 1, ed. from the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 84ff.
  7. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Königsworther Platz 1 (see literature)
  8. ↑ Sid Auffarth, Wolfgang Pietsch: Die Universität Hannover ... (see literature), p. 264

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 42.1 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 27.7 ″  E