Ernst-August-Carrée

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Ernst-August-Carrée, 2014

The Ernst-August-Carree is a historic and listed building complex in the district of Mitte in Hannover . It is located on the corner of Joachimstrasse and Ernst-August-Platz and is a neighboring building to Hanover's main train station . The building was built towards the end of the 19th century as the headquarters of the Royal Hanover Railway Directorate and is now used as a shopping center and office building.

architecture

The three-storey building with four wings was built between 1870 and 1872 according to plans by the Berlin architect Friedrich Hitzig . He clad the facade with yellow brickwork, accentuated by red ribbons. The corners of the house are designed as risalits that protrude only slightly from the building line. The upper floor was given a surrounding cornice with pilasters , based on models from antiquity. Above it is a cantilevered eaves adorned with sandstone nude furniture . The wing on Joachimstrasse was reconstructed as a copy in 1970.

After various renovation measures, the clinker facade with sandstone surrounds was retained. The recently redesigned Mediterranean courtyard is covered by a 17 meter high glass roof. The building, which can be divided into 17 units, has three entrances on the ground floor. The upper floors can be reached via four flights of stairs. During the renovations, solid stone and concrete construction was retained for the walls, floors and ceilings.

history

Entrance to the Ernst-August-Carrées on Joachimstrasse

After completion, the building was used by the Royal Railway Directorate in Hanover, after 1920 by the Reich Railway Directorate in Hanover and after the Second World War until the 1990s by the Railway Directorate in Hanover of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as an administrative building. After the privately restructured Deutsche Bahn AG had temporarily moved out of the listed building, renovations were carried out in the years 2001 to 2003. Further renovations were completed in 2010.

Since then, the ground floor has housed offices, shops, retail and catering companies, while Deutsche Bahn AG is the main tenant on the upper floors. The inscription ERNST-AUGUST-CARREE is on the building , in capital letters and without an accent above the E.

In 2015 the building complex was owned by Real IS based in Munich. This company acquired the building from CBRE Global Investors . The Dutch ING bank had previously bought the Carrée as a fund project.

Web links

Commons : Ernst-August-Carrée  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Neß, Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann, Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfenning: Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. 10.1. City of Hanover, part 1 . Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 75
  2. ↑ Floor plans of the building floors ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ernst-august-carree.de
  3. ^ New life in Ernst-August-Carree. In: Neue Presse Hannover from January 21, 2011
  4. ↑ Landlord Real IS , accessed on September 26, 2015
  5. ^ New start in the Ernst-August-Carree in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 11, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 32.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 33.5"  E