Gas works administration (Hanover)

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The building, which had not been destroyed until then, was demolished in May 2012

The former headquarters of the gas works administration in Hanover was one of the last buildings in the eastern old town to survive the air raids on Hanover during World War II . Despite criticism from (building) historians, the representative building at Osterstrasse 31 in the Mitte district was demolished in May 2012 to make room for a new building.

history

The building with the sandstone - facade was built for the management of urban gas works. The plans came from the Hanoverian architect Wilhelm Mackensen . One of the last tenants of the building was the men's clothing store Kuhn , which moved to Osterstrasse 51 before the demolition .

The city monument protection office had no objection to the demolition; In addition, the city needed the income from the sales of the space. Now, according to plans by the Hanoverian project developer Peter Bertram and the Berlin architects Kleihues + Kleihues , which is also responsible for the renovation of the Kröpcke Center , a new building is to be built: on the site of the old house and the administration building from the 1950s on Röselerstrasse - both of them were in municipal ownership - a curved building with around 11,000 square meters of floor space is to be built by autumn 2013. The main tenant of the estimated 55 million euro new building is the German Hypo , a subsidiary of Nord / LB . Shops are to be built on the lower floors; and Kuhn will then move in again.

The demolition is considered a sacrilege among building historians ; Both the retired architecture professor Günther Kokkelink and the building historian Sid Auffarth denounced the demolition plans. According to the HAZ journalist Conrad von Meding, “only a few buildings from the pre-war period [...] with such a beautiful facade exist” in this area of ​​the city center . For example, Elsbach & Frank's “Kaufhaus zum Stern” (Osterstrasse / Große Packhofstrasse) was the only one in the city that had survived the war bombs with relatively little damage; the building was restored in 1988 . The Aegidienkirche can also be found on old buildings in Osterstrasse - its ruins now serve as a memorial to the victims of war and violence.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Conrad von Meding: Osterstraße ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Telephone information from the building administration
  3. ↑ see this photo
  4. ↑ a b Christian Bohnenkamp: Inner City ... (see literature)
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Elsbach & Frank, "Kaufhaus zum Stern". 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. 159.
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Werner - Otto W. clothing store. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 672
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hannover art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide , 3rd, rev. Edition Hannover: Schäfer 1995, pp. 61–63

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 17.8 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 18.2"  E