Linden leisure home

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Entrance to the leisure home with elevator and the attached Limmerstrasse district library

The Linden leisure center in Hanover is a place of multicultural encounters for Linden and Limmer . The house opened in 1961 at Windheimstrasse 4 on the corner of Limmerstrasse is the first of its kind in Germany.

history

The sculpture “The Conversation”, created in 1961 by Maria Becke-Rausch for the leisure home, set up in the courtyard
Egon Kuhn , long-time director of the leisure home

After the City Council of Hanover decided to build leisure homes in 1959, the conceptual foundations were largely developed by City Councilor Heinz Lauenroth . He planned socio-cultural district centers “for all population groups and age groups, regardless of parties, churches and milieu.” Rooms and facilities with group rooms, studios, ballrooms and district libraries were to be made available to the most diverse groups, associations, initiatives and citizens.

The chairman of the Lindener Kulturkreis , Fred Grube , who was later honored as the initiator of the leisure home with the naming of Fred-Grube-Platz , was especially committed to a leisure home in Linden . The planning of the leisure home was carried out by the architect Erlhoff. More than 20 rooms for groups of 20 to 70 people have been created on two levels. The lecture and event hall offered 220 seats, and 250 m² in the basement were intended for dance and other events. The target group were mainly young people.

The Linden leisure home with the Limmerstrasse city library was opened on January 28, 1961 by the then Lord Mayor Karl Wiechert and was internationally regarded as exemplary. In the program for “everyone” , different workrooms were provided for working with ceramics, textiles, paper and weaving, sewing, metal, wood and photos. A table tennis room and various music studios with soundproof cabins were available for other activities, as well as rooms for the elderly or children to meet.

Shortly before the building was completed, the sculptor Maria Becke-Rausch had moved from southern Germany to Hanover and presented the city with designs for the sculpture The Conversation , which the city thought was made for its first leisure home. After the order was placed by the city and the work was completed, however, the building was already completed; a large construction crane finally lifted the sculpture to its final destination in the courtyard of the leisure home.

The dance events on Saturday from 7 p.m. were a special attraction. In contrast to the later period, there was still a strict dress code: ties were compulsory. Given the age of the guests, alcohol and nicotine were prohibited in the rooms.

In 1965 Egon Kuhn from Osnabrück took over the management of the leisure home.

Based on the “Fannystrasse Children's Festival” of the 1920s, the leisure home initiated a “Children's Shooting Festival” for the first time in 1978, from which the annual Butjer Festival has since developed.

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the Linden leisure home received the “Award for Social Cultural Work” from the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft in January 1986 .

The Limmerstrasse district library, which was previously housed in the FZH building , was to be dissolved by 2013 despite protests and citizens' initiatives, and the holdings were to be transferred to new and enlarged premises in the district library on Linden market square .

literature

  • Torsten Bachmann: Linden: Forays through history , Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Pavilion and leisure homes. 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, Schlütersche , Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 772
  • G. Meyer: Leisure homes in Hanover. Their origin, development and current practice , Hanover 1978
  • Rainer Kasties MA: Recreation Homes . 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. 190.
  • NN : Press release / invitation to the ceremony 50 years of Freizeitheim Linden on Friday 28 January 2011 at 5 p.m. in the Freizeitheim , n.d. (2011)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b N.N: Press release / invitation to the 50th anniversary ceremony ...
  2. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : 1961. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 20
  3. ^ A b Rainer Kasties MA: Freizeitheime
  4. ↑ Photo of the street sign with a separately attached information board
  5. ↑ Torsten Bachmann: Linden: Streifzüge durch die Geschichte , Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012, page 95
  6. ^ NN: Freizeitheim Linden (first program booklet), undated (1961)
  7. ↑ Ehrtfried Böhm (texts), Reinhold Lessmann (photos): neue plastik in hannover / Kunstsinn, patronage, urban aesthetics / an example in the mirror of two decades. Steinbock-Verlag, Hannover 1967, pp. 76, 79
  8. ↑ Torsten Bachmann: Linden: Streifzüge durch die Geschichte , Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2012, page 95 f.
  9. ↑ Andrea Tratner: Interview / Egon Kuhn: “The myth of the Linden is still alive” , online at neuepresse.de on September 2, 2009, last accessed on May 20, 2012
  10. ↑ a b stapled copies of individual publications by the FZH, no year, handed over on October 19, 2011
  11. ↑ mas: Linden / district library celebrates its 75th anniversary , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of July 23, 2011, last accessed on October 20, 2011

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '29.9 "  N , 9 ° 41' 58.9"  E