Ernst-August-Palais

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The three-part Ernst-August-Palais and the Leibniz Temple on Adolfstrasse ;
Steel engraving by E. Höfer after Wilhelm Kretschmer , 1857

The Ernst-August-Palais in Hannover was in the Kingdom of Hanover for the Crown Prince - and later royal couple George and Marie -built Palais . The building was located on a long unpaved rubble site on Adolfstrasse in the Calenberger Neustadt district , on which residential developments have been under construction since 2018.

history

The connecting building of the palace built by Molthan in 1847 , in the foreground exemplary uniforms of the Royal Hanoverian Army;
Lithographed picture postcard No. 5 of the series by Wasserkampf & Robby , Verlag Volksschriften Verein zu Hannover

After Adolfstrasse , named after Viceroy Adolph Friedrich , was laid out in Hanover in 1834 in the still young Kingdom of Hanover , the court mason and Senator Ernst Ludwig Taentzel built two villas next to each other there in 1836 . Only a little later, the Oberhofmarschallamt wanted to acquire the two properties in 1839 , but was initially only able to buy the building at number 2 , which was closest to the Leibniz Temple on Waterlooplatz and which then "received the official name Ernst-August-Palais". The villa then became the residence of the Crown Prince and later King George V in 1841 until his marriage to Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg in 1843.

Georg V, King of Hanover , his wife Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg and the children Crown Prince Ernst August , Princess Friederike and Princess Marie.

After the purchase of the second villa (house number 3 ) was also successful in 1845 , the court architect Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan designed a hall building as a connection between the two villas. After the completion and establishment of the resulting palace , the Crown Prince couple and their son Ernst August, who had since been born , moved from the Fürstenhof to the Ernst-August-Palais and lived there until the accession to the throne in 1851. During this time, the Crown Prince couple “lived a secluded, contemplative life [led], which earned him a lot of sympathy from the citizens of Hanover ”, the daughters Friederike (* 1848) and Marie (* 1849) were born.

In 1850, Crown Prince Georg's father-in-law , Duke Joseph von Altenburg , had acquired the property that was adjacent to the palace property to the west. The house there was originally built in 1833 by master mason Christoph August Gersting and was now supplemented in 1850 by a single-storey wing structure. The front facade of the original building was changed to Adolfstrasse. After Queen Marie bought another house for Duke Joseph on Lange Laube in 1859 , the Oberhofmarschallamt acquired the building on Adolfstraße. It then served various purposes, such as the collection of paintings from the Georgengartenpalais and the Guelph Museum, as a family museum of the Guelphs or also to house the reliquary .

However, from 1851 the Ernst-August-Palais was mainly set up for foreign visitors.

After the Battle of Langensalza and the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia , the state buildings on Adolfstrasse were transferred from the Prussian government to its military administration and thus became the property of the Reich Military Treasury.

After the law to regain military sovereignty and freedom of defense had been enacted at the time of National Socialism , the Ernst-August-Palais at Adolfstraße 2 was converted into a military replacement inspection , with which the contemporary witness Gottfried Benn came into contact.

After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , which destroyed 48 percent of the city of Hanover , the Ernst-August-Palais ultimately remained in ruins . In 1972, existing buildings were dismantled and the area leveled, which has since been used as an unpaved parking lot.

Rebuilding

The unpaved parking lot at the beginning of the renovations in the course of Hannover City 2020+ , 2018

In the course of the inner-city redevelopment measures Hannover City 2020 + , the former rubble site, which had long been used as a parking lot, was considered a "potential area" for privately financed residential construction . The unpaved parking lot had a size of around 5600 square meters and was considered the last large building plot in the city center. According to the plans, 130 apartments and a day-care center will be built there. Before the start of the construction work, urban archaeological investigations are carried out on the area , as the occurrence of soil monuments is expected. These could be parts of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover or the remains of residential and military buildings from the 2nd half of the 19th century.

Archival material

According to the monument curator Arnold Nöldeke , who in his 1932 book Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover (see literature) depicted a facade drawing of the former Villa Adolfstraße 2 in the “state of 1836”, the building police at that time had files for the house of the Duke of Altenburg a facade drawing from 1833.

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Ernst-August-Palais. In: The Art Monuments of the Province of Hanover , ed. by the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, Vol. 1 Region of Hanover, Issue 2 in two parts, Part 1, Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover (incorporated until January 1, 1870) , self-published by the Provincial Administration, Hanover: Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, issue 19 of the complete work, (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) pp. 312-315

Web links

Commons : Ernst-August-Palais (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 6.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 36.7"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Arnold Nöldeke: Ernst-August-Palais (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Web Links )
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Adolfstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 8
  4. ^ A b Dieter Brosius : Hanover as a royal residence. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2 From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hanover: Schlütersche, 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , pp. 305-308; online through google books
  5. ↑ Joachim Dyck: The contemporary witness: Gottfried Benn. 1929-1949 , Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0024-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0024-5 , p. 173; online through google books
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Second World War. 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 , pp. 694f.
  7. ^ Hanne Lahde-Fiedler (Red.): Urban development framework plan , as well as measures. In: Hannover City 2020 + / The Concept , with texts from the state capital Hannover and Machleit + Partner, Büro für Städtebau, Berlin (Juliane Schonauer, Benjamin Wille), February 2011, p. 62ff.
  8. ↑ The last large plot of land in the city is being built on in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 12, 2015
  9. ↑ Project-related development plan No. 1787 - Adolfstraße from September 14, 2016