Cravatzo watch

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With its three dials also known as the “ cloverleaf clock”: The Cravatzo clock in 2006 at the Steintor

The Cravatzo clock in Hanover , also known as the clover-leaf clock and clock on a stem , is a grandfather clock in the public space of the Lower Saxony state capital designed by the municipal building officer Karl Cravatzo as street furniture . Today's location is Goseriede at the corner of Otto-Brenner-Strasse in front of the trade union building of the German Trade Union Federation .

history

When Café Kröpcke, which was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover, was rebuilt in the post-war period and the old Kröpcke clock from the 19th century was subsequently dismantled, the then municipal building officer Karl Cravatzo designed the Cravatzo clock, which was then named after him which, despite the protests of the Hanoverians, should give the place a more modern character. The new "three-leaf normal clock " with its round mast was donated by the Lister furniture store and placed on October 3, 1955 in the center of the Hanover wind rose .

A photo taken around 1968 by the Hanoverian photographer Joachim Giesel from Platz am Steintor through Georgstrasse shows a Cravatzo clock at the tram stop in front of the Stichweh House.

When a replica of the old Kröpcke clock was to be set up in 1977, following the wish of the Hanoverian citizens , the clover-leaf clock was initially moved to the Am Steintor square .

As a result of the construction of an elevated platform for the Hanover light rail , the Cravatzo clock was dismantled again in 2017/2018 and subjected to a complete overhaul and restoration: the city of Hanover replaced the clockworks with newer models, and the backlighting of the dials was switched to LED lighting. The three housings on the renewed mast base received a powder coating after sandblasting. With a total cost of an estimated 12,000 euros, the civil engineering department made sure to put the Cravatzo clock "in a structural context that corresponds to the time it was built". The newly chosen place in front of the trade union building is a “ listed site”, where the three clock faces can be seen from several sides.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cravatzo Clock  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Michael Zgoll: Kleeblatt-Uhr wanders to the union building ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 27, 2018, last accessed on November 27, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Evelyn Beyer (text), Wilhelm Hauschild (photo): The bold 50s in Hanover (= Do you still know that? Part 2 of the series ), 1st edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur GmbH & Co. KG, 2016 , ISBN 978-3-946544-06-7 and ISBN 3-946544-06-1 , p. 39
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1955 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 238–241; here: p. 240; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Figure 34 in Hans J. Toll : Hanover , with photographs by Eckhart Breider, Joachim Giesel and Heinrich Weber, Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Wolfgang Weidlich, 1968, [without page number]

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '42.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 50.4"  E