Ernst-August-Platz (Hanover)

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Ernst-August-Platz with the entrance to the main train station and the Ernst-August-Monument (2001)

The Ernst-August-Platz is a central place in Hannover and is located just outside the main entrance of the central station .

description

There is an equestrian statue of King Ernst August I of Hanover on the square , and the HAZ fountain is also located here . Several streets lead directly to the square, namely Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse , Schillerstrasse , Bahnhofstrasse , Luisenstrasse and Joachimstrasse . The Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade passes under the square. To the east there are two road tunnels that cross under the railroad tracks: one on the Lister Meile and one on the Fernroder Straße. The last two streets mentioned also start here. In the direction of Kurt-Schumacher-Straße is the Ernst-August-Galerie , which was opened there in 2008 after the main post office was demolished. The square has been a pedestrian zone since the renovations for Expo 2000 , but buses run. The tram only affects him on the way to the central bus station since September 2017. Around 200,000 people frequent the square every day.

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1866: Ernst-August-Platz, lively with strollers, with green spaces and fountains, the Ernst-August-Monument in the center of the picture and the Marktkirche in the background;
Wood engraving by Robert Geißler from the Illustrirten Zeitung , old colored

history

The square with the main train station around 1900

The square, originally called the station forecourt, was laid out as a pentagonal square with five radiating streets in the course of the construction of the Ernst-August-Stadt and the construction of the main station in 1845. When the Ernst-August-Monument was erected in 1861, the square was renamed Ernst-August-Platz. The Ernst-August-Platz, once characterized by numerous planted areas, was the first jewelry square in Hanover. In the 1850s, several large hotels were built on the edge of the square, of which only two buildings have survived to this day. The green spaces increasingly had to give way to traffic areas. In 1939–1940, a protective bunker for 5000 people was created under the square, which is available in two parts. One half is used by the DB. With increasing tram traffic, the city's largest tram stop was built on the square. In the 1960s, ten tram lines ran here at four stops. The building of the subway resulted in a redesign, in 2015 two trams and three bus lines still operated here. Until 1975, the departure point for the train buses was also located on Ernst-August-Platz . Today the above-ground D-line of the Stadtbahn runs from Kurt-Schumacher-Straße to the north of the square through the underpass in the course of the Lister Meile to Raschplatz. The former route across the square to Joachimstrasse has been discontinued.

Literature (selection)

  • Volker Seitz: Everyday and petty crime in the shadow of the country's father . On the Ernst-August-Platz. In: Geschichtswerkstatt Hannover (Hrsg.): Everyday life between Hindenburg and Haarmann . Another city guide through Hanover in the 20s. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-87975-397-0 , p. 115-124 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Here the tram runs on the new D-line. In: haz.de . September 18, 2017, accessed January 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ Air raid shelter at Hanover main station. In: luftschutzbunker-hannover.de . Guido Janthor, accessed December 7, 2015 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 34.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 26.2"  E