Ernst-August-Stadt
The Ernst-August-Stadt is a historic district of Hanover , which is located in today's Mitte district and is part of the city center.
Location and shape
The Ernst-August-Stadt lies between the railway line with the main station and Georgstrasse . It extends from the Steintor to Aegidientorplatz . It is bounded by Georgstrasse in the southwest, Steintor in the west, Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse in the north, the railway line in the northeast, Prinzenstrasse and Schiffgraben in the east and Aegidientorplatz in the south. Important streets in the northern part of the district are Schillerstrasse, Bahnhofstrasse and Luisenstrasse, which run in a star shape towards the forecourt of the station, Ernst-August-Platz . In the southern part, Theaterstrasse, Rathenaustrasse with the extension An der Börse and Sophienstrasse represent important axes. Central squares are, in addition to Ernst-August-Platz, Opernplatz and Georgsplatz.
history
After Hanover was connected to the railroad in 1843, the first representative station building was completed in 1847. Since the train station was a little east of the actual old town and thus outside the city, the royal Oberhof building director Laves designed a development plan for the part of the stone gate field in between from 1845 . With that he prevailed over advocates of western urban expansion. The ramparts originally located here were razed after the Seven Years' War , and Georgstrasse now ran in their place. In the new quarter, for which the name Ernst-August-Stadt was gradually becoming established, Laves designed a series of lines of sight that approached important buildings and squares in classical style, such as Theaterstrasse with the extension of Königstrasse to Opernplatz and the Opera House ( at that time still court theater ). The Bahnhofstrasse running through the quarter also formed the last part of the Laves axis, which led from the Waterloo Column to the train station.
The layout of the Ernst-August-Stadt changed the cityscape of Hanover fundamentally. In 1847 the new district was incorporated into Hanover. Hotels in particular settled here in order to benefit from the proximity to the train station. Away from the old town, in the direction of Ernst-August-Stadt with Georgstraße and the “Café Robby”, later known as “ Café Kröpcke ”, the focus of the city area later shifted almost as a sure-fire success until the First World War . During the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the district in the city center was largely destroyed. Most of the current buildings date from the 1950s.
Today the area is one of the busiest neighborhoods in the city center. In the northern part it is characterized by retail and pedestrian zones. The Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade runs underground through the middle of Bahnhofstrasse and connects the train station with the Kröpcke . Fashion stores in the upper price segment have established themselves in Luisenstrasse. The southern part is characterized by banks, culture and company headquarters.
Resident companies and institutions
In the northern part of the district there are branches of larger department store chains such as C&A , Karstadt and Galeria Kaufhof as well as hotels such as the Central Hotel Kaiserhof, the Grandhotel Mussmann and, with Kastens Hotel Luisenhof, Hanover’s only five-star hotel . In the southern part there is, for example, the opera, the theater and the art association .
See also
literature
- Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Die Ernst-August-Stadt , (with a section of the map of the latest plan of the royal and residential city of Hanover and the suburb of Linden from 1862/63 , edited by Herm. Oppermann), In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, Volume 10.1. ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 67-74; here: p. 67.
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Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X ; in this:
- Sid Auffarth : The "Royal Building Commission". On the Difficulties with Urban Beautification, pp. 51–57.
- Harold Hammer-Schenk: Notes on urban planning , pp. 241–294, especially pp. 261–271.
- Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity . Schlütersche, Hannover 2001. ISBN 3-87706-607-0 .
- Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . Vol. 2, Schlütersche, Hannover 1994. ISBN 3-87706-364-0 .
- Klaus Mlynek : Ernst-August-Stadt. 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. 165.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover . Vol. 2, Schlütersche, Hannover 1994. ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 315.
- ↑ Monument conservation appraisal of Hanover main station. (No longer available online.) In: Bauinformation.de. 1997, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 30, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ King Ernst August (1771-1851). In: Nordstadt-Online. 2008, accessed October 30, 2012 .
