Ernst Grote House

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The listed Ernst-Grote-Haus, built in homeland security style , at 10 Breite Strasse at the corner of Georgswall

The Ernst-Grote-Haus in Hanover , also called Grotehaus or Grote-Haus for short , is a listed building near the center of the Lower Saxony state capital. The richly decorated, historicizing building in Hanover's Mitte district was originally built in the mid-1930s for the Ernst Grote coffee company . The building is located on the route of the Rote Fadens and can be found at the current address at 10 Breite Straße at the corner of Georgswall, the former Große Wallstraße .

History and description

Wrought-iron lettering "Ernst Grote" above the entrance at the Grotehaus with the merchant figures created in 1949 by Ludwig Vierthaler after Berthold Stölzer

After the merchant, grocer and coffee roaster Ernst Grote (1845–1927) converted the company he founded as a general partnership on January 27, 1873 into a stock corporation, after his death the coffee specialist Carl Winter headed sales for the entire area of the Weimar Republic at the time . Under Winters leadership should the hitherto as a business and headquarters used " Old Firm " - named after the housed in the same building 1742-1760 judicial office - one adapted to the historic building extension to be built. For this, however, a part of the medieval city ​​wall behind the house had to be bought, and a four-story warehouse was built in its place.

The new Grotehaus was finally built from 1935 to 1936 as part of the National Socialist urban development plans and based on plans by the architect Adolf Springer on an L-shaped floor plan. This resulted in a historicizing, three-storey brick building in homeland security style with frames made of ashlar , above which a high roof with a characteristic six-step stepped gable rose. On the one hand, the basic forms of the building were “ aesthetically and formally based on early Hanoverian town houses ”. On the other hand, however, the two-dimensionally arranged, large windows and the narrow ribbon windows in the gable area "also showed the influences of New Building ."

The central arched portal with the relief-like family coat of arms of the company founder and two framing, life-size merchant figures from 1935 originally came from the hand of the sculptor Berthold Stölzer .

Knaggen - and filling board decorations at the Grotehaus with a coffee-drinking lady with a hood , coffee grinder and the lettering "Grote" on a coffee pot
The city board number 10 on the building with information on the former Inner Aegidientor at the site in front of today's Aegidientorplatz refers to the city ​​fortifications of Hanover from the Middle Ages

The rich picture program with clasp and filler board jewelry was first carved out of the wooden beams by the sculptor Friedrich Buhmann in 1935.

Due to the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the old chancellery was completely and parts of the Grotehaus a victim of aerial bombs . Only a few years later, the Grotehaus was restored in the style of the 1930s as one of the first early renovations of the post-war period in 1949 by the architects Eduard Jürgens and Hans Mencke . The sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler restored the ashlar portal based on the template originally created by Berthold Stölzer, including the symbols of the scales and the ship as well as the dates 1873, 1936 and 1946.

A city plaque was later installed on the building to commemorate the former Inner Aegidientor, which was on site until 1748.

However, the old office was not rebuilt. In its place, a new state trustee office was built in 1977 according to plans by the architects' association Langer und Fries at today's house number 12.

In 1994, a southern extension of the former state central bank was built to the side of the building, on Georgswall, which then became a dependent administrative unit of the Deutsche Bundesbank .

In Ernst-Grote-house which was 2009-2019 North German Facility Management GmbH ( NORD / FM ) housed a 100 percent subsidiary of Norddeutsche Landesbank (Nord / LB).

From the beginning of 2020 until probably 2021, the historic building and the new building from the 1970s (old chancellery) will be completely renovated on behalf of the new owner, the Hanoverian "BAUM Unternehmensgruppe" .

literature

  • Grotehaus in Hanover , special print (2 pages) with 6 art print images of the extensions by the architects Jürgens and Mencke, in: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1937

See also

Web links

Commons : Grotehaus (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b o. V .: Ernst Grote AG, Hanover / large coffee roastery and colonial goods store, Breite Straße 7-10 , In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954. Adolf Sponholtz, Hanover 1954, pp. 154f., Here : P. 157
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Breite Straße 10 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 95
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Zimmermann: Grotehaus , in ders .: Hanover in your pocket. Buildings and monuments from A to Z . 2nd Edition. Feesche, Hannover 1988, ISBN 3-87223-046-8 , p. 47
  4. ↑ Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig (arrangement): middle , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 ; here: Addendum to Part 2, Volume 10.2: List 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 - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 3ff .; here: p. 3
  5. ↑ a b o. V .: Landmark / Ernst-Grote-Haus on the hannover.de page in the version dated February 21, 2018, last accessed on January 14, 2020
  6. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Grote , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 237; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Georgswall , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 90
  8. ^ A b Ernst Grote Aktiengesellschaft , in: Handbuch der Deutschen Aktiengesellschaft (= The large companies in the German Empire ), Volume 48, Part 4, Berlin: Special Archive of the German Economy, Verlag Hoppenstedt & Co., 1943, p. 3548; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ a b c d Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: Former. Ernst-Grote-Haus, today Nord LB. In this: Architectural Guide Hanover. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 33; limited preview in Google Book search
  10. ↑ Rainer Ertel : The Atlantikhaus on Georgsplatz , in which: There was something. Looking for traces in Hanover , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-4414-6 and ISBN 978-3-7528-8020-5 , pp. 34–35; limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1935 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 175ff .; here: p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
  12. ↑ Directions with address details as a PDF document from nordfm.de [no date], last accessed on January 11, 2020
  13. ^ Commercial and commercial buildings , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 71, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1937, p. 292; limited preview in Google Book search

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 26.8"  E