Brauns brothers

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Full-page advertisement of the art and commercial gardening in the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1877

Gebrüder Brauns , also Gebr. Brauns , was the name of a nursery founded in the Electorate of Hanover in the 18th century at the gates of the city of Hanover . The company founded by the Brauns family soon developed into the largest horticultural company in northern Germany. The head office was on an extensive site in what would later become the Hanover district of Nordstadt ; in the flower district at today's Straße Im Moore .

history

The garden and field area northeast of Montbrillant Castle at the beginning of the 19th century;
Plan of the city of Hanover and the surrounding area (extract); Military engineers Pentz and Bennefeld, 1807

The Brauns family was a long-established family that had been in Hanover since 1649. At the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover in 1754, after the death of the "often-named Braun brothers", namely the late Royal British and Electoral Hanoverian court counselor Johann Braun and Johann Conrad Braun, an extensive list of the brothers' heirs who had previously been registered appeared in the Hanoverian advertisements the execution of wills .

The Brauns family owned extensive land in front of the Steintor , in the Steintorfeld , “in the so-called Moore ” and in the area that would later become the flower quarter. On the garden path known around 1770 for the so-called garden cossacks , the family founded the largest horticultural company in Hanover around 1790, at the latest around 1800.

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , Marie Brauns, daughter of the art and commercial gardener Friedrich Ludwig Brauns and his wife Elisabeth Margarete from the Hamelin patrician family von Fargel , married the choirmaster, teacher, music director, professor and composer Wilhelm Bünte on December 27, 1862 . After the death of Marie's mother in the year of the proclamation of the German Empire in 1871, the couple inherited their father's inheritance, which enabled the couple to build a large house with a garden in nearby Taubenfelde during the founding period from 1873 to 1874 .

Also around the beginning of the 1870s , Heinrich Hitzemann junior, born on November 15, 1853 in Bückeburg as the son of a plantation gardener working in Eilsen , completed an apprenticeship with Brauns in Hanover, before he was later promoted to court gardener for the residential garden of Schloss Bückeburg .

The headquarters of the nursery was in those years at the address Im Moore 8 , next to the Royal Welfengarten . But in the course of industrialization and residential and road construction, the extensive garden area was gradually reduced by the streets that were initially named after vegetables and later - starting from Engelbosteler Damm - after flowers:

  • The Bohnenstrasse was named in 1858 and became part of Lilienstraße in 1962. According to a later address book from Hanover , this name was given because "there used to be a lot of nurseries" here
  • In 1864 the Braunsche garden area gave way to the construction of the Nelkenstrasse up to the Im Moore street.
  • In 1864 Lilienstraße was also laid out to Straße Im Moore.
  • In 1874, in the course of the founding of the German Empire, the Tulpenstrasse was led to the street Am Kleinen Felde over the old gardens.
  • In 1874, according to the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter, the Asternstraße over the gardens to Hahnenstraße was operated.

According to a full-page advertisement in the business gazette of the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1877, the Brauns brothers' art and commercial gardening company had a shop at 7 Breite Straße in Hanover. In the same year, the book author August Oehlkers could not recommend "the commercial nursery of the Brauns brothers in Moore urgently enough" to the readers of his book on the treatment, breeding and care of roses published by Philipp Cohen .

On January 3, 1891, Friedrich Brauns, one of the co-owners of the Brauns brothers, died at the age of 51, as the Allgemeine Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung announced shortly afterwards.

Only a little later, in 1892, the Fliederstraße, named after the lilac bush, was branched off from Asternstraße , which, like older streets in the north of the city, was laid out over the former garden area of ​​the Brauns brothers and also up to Hahnenstraße.

In the late 19th century was in the commercial register at the local court Hanover been as unlimited company -operated company "A. v. Schwanenflügel & Ko., Gebr. Brauns Nachf. ”Was registered as a commercial nursery, which was closed on July 11, 1898. The previous co-owner Alexander von Schwanenflügel, a member of the old Lower Saxon noble family von Schwanenflügel , continued to operate the company while retaining the previous company name. At the same time, the merchant Brutus von Schwanenflügel, who was also active in Hanover, was granted power of attorney, while a branch was established in Davenstedt .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ludwig Hoerner : in the other : Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 35, 261f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c o. V .: Commercial Register. In: Möllers Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung , Volume 13, 1898, p. 359; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Hanover's street names . In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Vol. 35 (1981), p. 84.
  4. ^ A b Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , pp. 29, 79, 161, 180, v. a. P. 247
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Wilma Norkus-Bünte: Wilhelm Bünte. A musician's life. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 26 (1972), Issue 1/2, pp. 99–118; here: p. 103ff .; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Brauns family. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Citationes Edictales. In: Hanoverian advertisements of all kinds of things, the publication of which is necessary and useful for the common being , edition of July 26, 1754; Digitized from the anthology, Hanover: Heinrich Ernst Christoph Schlüter, 1755
  8. ↑ Eva Benz-Rababah : Stone gate field. 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. 602.
  9. ↑ Anette Schröder: From Nationalism to National Socialism. The students of the Technical University of Hanover from 1925 to 1938 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 213), also dissertation 2001 at the University of Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7752-6013- 8 and ISBN 3-7752-6013-7 , p. 173
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Zimmermann : Im Moore , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 127
  11. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Gartenkosaken, In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 203.
  12. ↑ Anna-Franziska von Schweinitz : The sovereign gardens in Schaumburg-Lippe from 1647 to 1918 (= Green Row , Vol. 20), Worms: Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999, ISBN 978-3-88462-161-5 and ISBN 3-88462 -161-0 , p. 207; limited preview in Google Book search
  13. ^ A b Helmut Zimmermann: Street names that have disappeared in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 48 (1994), pp. 355–378; here: p. 359; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ↑ Compare the digitized version of page 27, section II from the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942
  15. ↑ August Oehlers: The rose, their treatment, breeding and care , Hanover and Leipzig: Verlag von Philipp Cohen, 1877, p. 32; Digitized via Google books
  16. ↑ Paul Abraham : Personalalien , in ders. (Red): Allgemeine Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung. Illustrated magazine for the interests of German gardeners. Organ of the General German Gardener Association and the health insurance for German gardeners , issue 4 of February 15, 1891, Berlin, p. 61; Digitized as a PDF document via the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
  17. ↑ Herbert Mundhenke : Family von Schwanenflügel: documents and files / duration 1393-1889 , presentation of the family deposit in what was then the main state archive in Hanover , archive signature NLA HA Dep. 51