Fire Brigade Museum Hanover

The former Catholic Citizens' School (center) on the site of the former fire station 1, today's Wache 10 , houses the Hanover Fire Brigade Museum

The fire brigade museum in Hanover shows the history of fire protection , especially the Hanover fire department . The museum shows (regularly on a few days of the year, otherwise by appointment) on an area of ​​around 250 square meters with around 1500 exhibits, for example, historical uniforms and equipment and provides insights into everyday life, especially that of the Hanoverian professional fire brigade . There are also special exhibitions such as the last one in 2014 during the Night of the Museums , in which, for example, historical films from the history of the fire service or fire service model buildings were presented. The location of the museum is the listed former Catholic Citizens School , Am Kanonenwall 19 ; Accessible via Wache 10 in the Calenberger Neustadt district , Feuerwehrstrasse 1 .

history

View into one of the former school stairwells, in the foreground fire department model buildings

The Hanover fire brigade was founded on January 1st, 1880 as the twenty-fifth professional fire brigade in Germany and was initially subordinate to the city ​​building authority. In 1892 it became independent as a fire department, in the same year the main fire station on the newly laid fire brigade road went into operation.

In the immediate vicinity, a former moat, part of the historic city ​​fortifications of Hanover , had previously been filled in. On the thus created street Am Kanonenwall , near the church of St. Clemens, the Catholic Citizens' School was built in 1884 according to plans by urban planning inspector Rudolph Eberhard Hillebrand . The three-storey cladding brick building with red bricks was built in the style of the Hanover architecture school in neo-Gothic forms. The nine-axis main facade faces the street on Am Kanonenwall ; the buttresses and the window shapes emphasize the caretaker's apartment, which was formerly in the school, as well as the teachers' room and the auditorium. The building plan, however, was primarily determined by the gender segregation that was common during the imperial era : two symmetrical staircases next to each other were built in the center of the building, which at the time could be accessed by girls and boys through the side entrances. At the time, the facility also comprised two schoolyards and separate toilet blocks. After the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the former Catholic Citizens' School is the last one that has survived, the school buildings that were built “in the city center since 1862” in the course of industrialization and the associated increase in population, “mostly in a confined space”.

Museum director Albrecht Reime in June 2014 during the Night of the Museums

On the occasion of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the professional fire brigade in Hanover, a group of officials from the Hanoverian fire brigade formed in 1980 to build the fire brigade museum. The mainly privately collected exhibits have since been made accessible to the public under voluntary management in the former Catholic Citizens ' School. The director of the museum is Albrecht Reime .

literature

• Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: St. Clemens Church. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 86f .; as well as: Calenberger Neustadt in the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 5f.
• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Am Kanonenwall 19. In: Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , passim
• Klaus Mlynek : Fire Department. 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. 177.

Web links

Commons : Fire Brigade Museum Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fire Brigade Museum on the hannover.de site , last accessed on June 18, 2014
• Fire Museum Hannover , Video with a produced by Sergey Kohl, Jaroslav Kudlac, Thorsten Schaumburg and Alex Taag, spokesman Michael Friedrich, uploaded in 2007 on the site YouTube .com, last accessed on 17 June 2014

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Klaus Mlynek: Fire Department (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Alfred Reime (contact person): Fire Brigade Museum , A4 leaflet: Professional Fire Brigade Hanover [oD, 2014?]
3. ^ NN : 160 years of fire protection in Hanover / Fire Brigade Museum Hanover. In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] from May 23, 2014; last accessed online on June 17, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: St. Clemenskirche (see literature)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Am Kanonenwall 19 (see literature)
6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Am Kanonenwall. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 18.
7. ↑ Note: The monument topography writes Hillebrandt instead of Hillebrand , compare the other spelling, for example, in Helmut Knocke: HILLEBRAND, Rudolf Eberhard. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 167; online through google books .
8. ↑ Your contact person / team on the hannover.de site , last accessed on June 18, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 20.8 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 33.7"  E