Corvinusweg (Hanover)

View through the Corvinusweg to the Kreuzkirche

The Corvinusweg in Hanover runs in the course of a centuries-old former alley in Hanover's old town . The path, named after the reformer Anton Corvinus , connects Bonehauerstrasse at the level of the Kreuzkirche with Schmiedestrasse in what is now the Mitte district .

history

View from the historic Leibnizhaus over the inner courtyard into what was then Kaiserstraße;
Postcard No. 175 , anonymous

Street sign with a legend on " Anton Corvinus 1501–1553, reformer of the Principality of Calenberg , 1348" Wrenschen hagen ""

View through Kaiserstraße to Bonehauerstraße , around 1907;
Postcard No. 806 , Friedrich Astholz junior

The street called Wrenschenhagen or Vrenschenhagen was mentioned in a document as early as 1348 , when Arnold von Lemgo gave his wife, Dieterich von Oesselse's widow , a house in Wrenschenhaghen before the city council . The street was one of the medieval narrow streets which, as "lütteken straten", connected the four historic main streets of the old town with one another. Wrenschenhagen was later referred to as one of the "alleys of poverty ". At the southern end of the street on the corner of Schmiedestrasse was the location of the former building, later known as Leibnizhaus , which was owned by the von Sode family from 1456 . The half-timbered side of the building faced the small alley. After Jürgen Kaiser , "who owned a house there since 1652" (until 1689), the street was renamed Kaiserstraße "around 1700" .

Just like all the already narrow Lütteken Straten , the Kaiserstraße was also narrowed towards the top by projections of the half-timbered floors . Therefore it offered particularly picturesque sights in the cityscape and was a popular motif for painters and photographers . Today, for example, the Hanover Historical Museum owns a photo titled Kaiserstraße in the direction of Kniehauerstraße from the estate of the photographer Wilhelm Ackermann, who died in 1937 .

For the period of National Socialism were in World War II by the bombing of Hannover Kaiser Street and with it the Leibniz house from 1943 largely by aerial bombs destroyed.

In the still young Federal Republic of Germany , an initially planned reconstruction of the Leibnizhaus at its original location was discarded, among other things due to the lack of the historical surrounding buildings. Instead, a multi- storey car park was built there between 1964 and 1966 at the new address Schmiedestrasse 13 . The sculpture "Stahl plastik 1965" by the sculptor Hans Uhlmann , which was set up as art in public space in the alley, dates back to 1965 , years before the municipal program "Experiment Street Art " started in 1970 .

In 1973 the former Kaiserstraße was given its current name.

literature

• Helmut Zimmermann : Corvinusweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 55f .; therein the reference to
  • Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 1914
  • Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter (HGBl), 1924, p. 127
• A Hanoverian photographer sees his home. 16 motifs from Hanover and the surrounding area by Wilhelm Ackermann , loose-leaf collection in a folding file with contributions by Franz Rudolf Zankl and Ulrich Fließ, ed. from the Historisches Museum Hannover, Braunschweig: Archiv-Verlag, 1980

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '24.4 "  N , 9 ° 44' 2.4"  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Helmut Zimmermann: Corvinusweg (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Ulrich Fließ: View through Kaiserstraße to Kniehauerstraße. In: A Hanoverian photographer ... (see literature)
3. ↑ Carl Ludwig Grotefend (Ed.), Georg Friedrich Fiedeler: Document Book of the City of Hanover , Part 1: From the Origin to 1369 (in Gothic script ) (= Document Book of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Volume 5), Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1860, p 254f .; online through google books
4. ↑ Erwin Volckmann: The German city in the mirror of old street names. Cultural and verbal matters , 2nd significantly increased and improved edition of "Strasseennamen und Städtetum", Würzburg: Gebr. Memminger, 1926, p. 149 and others; Preview over google books
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke : Leibnizhaus. 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. 393f.
6. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl: Wilhelm Ackermann as a photographer. In: A Hanoverian photographer ... (see literature)
7. ↑ Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Weblinks )
8. ^ Ines Katenhusen : Street art program. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 608f.