Elisabethstrasse 9 / 9a (Hanover)

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Building Elisabethstrasse 9, south side

The building at Elisabethstrasse 9 and 9a in Hanover is a listed semi-detached house , the architecture of which stands out from all the villas in the Lower Saxony state capital - similar to its history. The location of the villa built by the architect Ulrich Roediger in the geometric Art Nouveau style at the beginning of the 20th century is the Hanover district of Kirchrode .

History and description of the building

Building Elisabethstrasse 9, east side

When the village of Kirchrode was incorporated into Hanover in 1907 , Elisabethstraße was laid out there in the same year , named according to the Hanover history sheets "[...] after the mother of the entrepreneur, the court owner Heinrich Jöhrens", Elisabeth Jöhrens (née Meyer , * February 11, 1830 in Kirchrode; † May 16, 1894 ibid). Also in 1907 and until 1908, the owners , the parents of the art and landscape painter Hermann Meffert and the parents -in-law of his wife and painter colleague Elisabeth , left the exterior and interior architects Roediger brothers to her after they had bought a double plot of land on Elisabethstrasse from the farmer Jöhrens Erect an Art Nouveau semi-detached house in the midst of fields with an unobstructed view of the Wiesental valley and across to the old post mill on the Kronsberg .

Ulrich Roediger divided the structure of the double house strongly plastically by projections and recesses and provided the building with a strong expression of the geometric Art Nouveau. The upper floor facing Ostfeldstrasse was mostly half-timbered , but it is still impressive today, in particular, through the formulation of the facade facing Elisabethstrasse. There it is divided into vertical fields, similar to glare windows , in which a landscape is represented by a sgraffito - the work of the painter Hermann Mefferts, who contributed to the design of the house as did the group of artists grouped around him.

The design of, for example, the winter garden of the house half number 9a and some bars in front of the windows protrudes from the villa architecture of Hanover. But "[...] the very beautiful original garden fence is unfortunately no longer there". At least a large part of the inventory also designed by Ulrich Roediger has been preserved in both parts of the house , for example the stairs, wall cupboards and other furniture as well as the doors with the glazed clinker bricks in the passages.

Hermann Meffert and his wife were initially Kirchrode's only vegetarians . The painter and individualist , who was soon also humorously referred to as a “sun worshiper”, was recognizable from afar by his characteristic large painter's hat during his many forays into the surrounding nature - his favorite object.

In 1912 Meffert's son Otto was born at home in the villa on Elisabethstrasse, who later became a typesetter and typographer as well as a representative for the CL Schrader printing company, which operates in Theaterstrasse . Otto Meffert had campaigned, among other things, for the addition of suitable bells for the Kirchroder Jakobikirche .

But the painter Hermann Meffert set up Hanover's largest painter's studio at Elisabethstrasse 9a , and later also a painting school . He was the owner of the house he lived in until at least 1941, while house number 9 had meanwhile become the property of the farmer H. Bartels from Fallingbostel .

See also

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Hermann Meffert himself is named as the client, compare Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , p. 161; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Neß: The development around the turn of the century. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, volume 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 94f., As well as Kirchrode in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 19f., Here: p. 19
  2. ↑ a b c d e Otto Meffert: Hermann Meffert. In: Michael Hümpel (Ed.): The city district in words and pictures. Chronicle Kirchrode - Bemerode - Wülferode . 1st edition. Michael Hümpel Verlag, Hannover 2003, p. 90.
  3. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. 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. 153.
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Elisabethstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 70
  5. ↑ a b c d Hans Werner Dannowski: Hanover - far from near ... , p. 161
  6. ↑ Compare, for example, this page from the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '33.8 "  N , 9 ° 50' 9.1"  E