Ice cream factory (Hanover)

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Ice cream factory building
Building of the Heuweg-Werke , here referred to as "Hannoversche Zuckerwaren und Konfitürenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft "
View across the courtyard of the EISFABRIK to the artist studios and a building of the Commedia Futura independent theater

The Eisfabrik ( spelling : EISFABRIK ) is an art and culture center in the southern part of Hanover . On an area of ​​around 5,000 m² it houses two exhibition halls, a theater with two halls as well as artist studios, music practice rooms and studios.

history

At the end of the 19th century, the building complex in Seilerstrasse was built as a brewery by the Germania brewery, founded in 1898 , which used the building for around two decades. Almost without exception, the founders of the Germania brewery were innkeepers and beer traders from the city of Hanover and its vicinity. The brewery's manager was a Mr. Katz. By taking over a share in the business , the shareholders entered into the obligation to purchase a certain amount of beer from the brewery. Thanks to the sales market secured in this way, beer output of around 60,000 to 70,000 hectoliters could be produced after five to six years , and around 90,000 hectoliters after another three years. Soon the brewery was able to distribute a dividend of 20%.

In the First World War , beer sales fell sharply. In this situation, a consortium made up of three breweries based in Hanover ( Städtische Lagerbier-Brauerei , Vereinsbrauerei Herrenhausen and Lindener Aktien-Brauerei ) submitted a takeover offer to the shareholders of the Germania brewery . In 1917 the shareholders decided to sell the brewery at a general meeting . The consortium then shut down the Germania brewery.

In the same year - almost exclusively by former members of the Germania brewery and again under the direction of director Katz - the so-called Heuweg-Werke , the "Hannoversche Eishaus- und Waren -kauf-Gesellschaft mbH", were founded. The GmbH bought back the property of the former Germania brewery in 1917 in order to build a plant for the production of clear rice. In 1917 it was converted into an ice cream factory that produced clear ice for cooling: the newly founded Heuweg-Werke, a short name for the “Hannoversche Eishaus- und Waren -kauf-Gesellschaft mbH”, covered all of Hanover's needs with a daily capacity of 2,400 quintals of clear ice. The factory was 90% destroyed in World War II and was only able to regain its pre-war capacity around 1953. Until 1965 ice was produced in the factory and from here all of Hanover was supplied with clear ice. After ice production was stopped, various small businesses settled on the site.

Todays use

At the end of the 1970s, visual artists first discovered the then ruin-like building complex. Under the direction of Hans Hörmann, concerts and exhibitions were held in the empty halls and the first studios were poorly prepared. With the founding of the art association Foro Artistico (1987) and the move of the independent theater Commedia Futura (also 1987) into the ice cream factory, a sustainable structure began to develop. In 1999 the Eisfabrik e. V. with the support of the City of Hanover and the State of Lower Saxony, the site. Today the "EISFABRIK" has established itself as an integral part of the dance, theater and art scene.

Gallery for photography

The GAF (Gallery for Photography) has been located in the Blue Hall of the ice cream factory since March 2014. The move was preceded by a renovation of the historic hall by the Hanoverian architect Bernd Rokahr. In the GAF, which is run by the non-profit association for the promotion of photography in Hannover e. V. is operated, several exhibitions of journalistic or documentary photography are shown every year. The works on display include classics of both genres, as well as contemporary works and photographs by young photographers. So far, works by Jewgeni Chaldej, Anja Niedringhaus, Dougie Wallace, Mads Nissen, Michel Vanden Eeckoudt, Emil Gataullin and Jesco Denzel have been exhibited at the GAF.

Honors

literature

  • Erwin Schütterle (Managing Director): Stadtkulturpreis 1999 , laudation for the award of the award by the Friends of Hanover in 1999, downloadable as a PDF document , 1999
  • Hugo Thielen : Ice cream factory. 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. 157.
  • Angela Kriesel: On the charm of discovery. Art scene in and around Hanover . In: Dieter von Herz: Hanover. Potential of a region . Hanover (torch bearer) 1992, p. 24f
  • Bultmann et al. a .: Hanover on foot. 18 city tours through history and the present . Hamburg (VSA) 1989, p. 56f

Web links

Commons : Eisfabrik (Hannover, Kulturzentrum)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hugo Thielen: Ice cream factory (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d Heuweg-Werke, Hanover ... (see literature)
  3. ↑ Rudolf Cyperrek, according to archival preparatory work by Helmut Millies: 100 years mansions , ed. von der Brauerei Herrenhausen GmbH, Hannover-Herrenhausen, Wiesbaden: Verlag für Wirtschaftspublizistik, 1968, p. 28
  4. ^ Heuweg-Werke, Hanover. Hannoversche Eishaus- und Waren -kaufgesellschaft mbH In: Paul Siedentopf (main editor), Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material): The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927. Anniversary publisher Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 91.
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Heuweg-Werke Hannover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 294.
  6. ↑ GAF Gallery for Photography. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  7. ^ Past. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Erwin Schütterle (Managing Director): City Culture Prize 1999 (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '53.8 "  N , 9 ° 45' 8.8"  E