Dragonslayer House

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Dragon Slayer House and Georgspassage
A view of the building from 1902
: Modern new buildings , 4th year, Stuttgart 1902

The Dragon Slayer House in Hanover is a business building built between 1900 and 1901 at Georgstraße 10 at the level of the Schiller Monument . The Grade II listed , ornate sandstone façade is the house best known for the over Georg passage of Werner Hantelmann almost -dimensional carved figure of St. George as the dragon slayer .

history

From 1900

After breaking through the old rows of houses in 1897 to create Heiligerstrasse and Limburgstrasse , the architects Hermann Schaedtler and Karl Hantelmann built a larger building complex on the corner of Georgstrasse, which created an additional connection to the two younger streets with the Georgspassage. The complex was created in place of the first residential building ever built by Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp on Georgstrasse.

Today's dragon slayer house originally used the furniture store "Louis Fuge, Möbel, Decoration" and was therefore also called Fugesches , in old spelling Fuge'sches Haus , due to the sculpture of Saint George but also Georgshaus Above the gable-facing building complex, whose dragon slayer house has a stylistic transition formed on the right to the "Haus Biermann", which has not been preserved, a higher, recessed decorative tower rose as a dominant urban planning feature on the square-like extension of Georgstrasse through the intersection with Schillerstrasse / the corner of Limburgstrasse. This square extension was reinforced by the canal street that flows into it and that of ( later) Anzeiger high-rise building (now no longer existing) Nordmannstraße running directly towards the tower.

The tower as a point of attraction

Around 1901: The tower above the Biermann complex and the dragon slayer house
Postcard number "837A" by Karl F. Wunder

The tower, enthroned above the roofs of the Drachentöterhaus and Biermann building complex, not only had a decorative function, but also set a landmark that was visible from afar as an urban dominant feature: This shows a comparison of two views before and after the turn of the century, before and after the building of the house complex. For the following two shots - others would be possible - the photographer Karl F. Wunder positioned himself at almost the same position on the Kröpcke with the same view in the direction of the Steintor :

View from the Kröpcke before 1900 ...
... and after 1901 in the direction of the Steintor
Georgshaus (far left), today the Schiller monument stands on the square in the middle

The tower on Georgstrasse / corner of Große Packhofstrasse (left in the foreground), which is also added in the more recent view , is dated as that of the Sprengel-Haus around 1910; The architects of this building at the (today's) address Georgstraße 22 were “Riesle und Rühling”.

After the Second World War

The retail company "WOP Oberpottkamp", founded in Hanover in 1921, for electrical appliances, bicycles and "everything about music" by the businessman Wilhelm Oberpottkamp had its headquarters in the dragon slayer house after the Second World War. It was taken over in 1966 by the tool dealer Ernst Brinkmann , who had founded his trading house for radios and electrical appliances in Hamburg decades earlier in 1929 . Brinkmann rebuilt the dragon slayer house several times and expanded its sales area to around 7,500 m² in order to then offer electrical devices for all household and play items as well as porcelain in the Brinkmann technical department store as "Germany's largest technical department store". However, economic downturns and the mismanagement of the Hamburg headquarters led to the closure of the successfully operating house in Georgstrasse in 2001.

As a result, the building was bought by a subsidiary of Centrum Holding Deutschland from Düsseldorf , which had also acquired the Kröpcke-Center in Hanover , and rented the dragon slayer house to the Lehmanns Media chain , which has been selling books and media here since then.

In March 2016, the Rossmann drugstore chain opened its 2000th and largest European branch here.

literature

Web links

Commons : Georgstraße 10 (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerd Weiß: Georgstrasse . In: Monument topography ...
  2. ↑ Photo of the Schiller memorial in front of the dragon slayer house
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Georgstrasse 10 . In: Hanover. Art and …
  4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , pp. 110, 161
  5. ^ Hugo Thielen: Hantelmann, Werner . 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. 269.
  6. ↑ Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , 1934, Issue 3–4, p. 49; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ^ Harold Hammer-Schenk : Georgstrasse ; in Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , here: pp. 246–250, especially p. 249.
  8. ^ Photo from 1902
  9. ^ Friedrich Lüddecke : At the Goseriede . In: Hanover as it was back then. Pictures and encounters around 1900 . Verlag A. Madsack, Hannover 1964, p. 10ff.
  10. ↑ postcard 838A by Karl F. miracle
  11. ↑ Street sketch in the address book of the city of Hanover from 1942
  12. ↑ Photo through Nordmannstrasse to the tower of the complex
  13. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Brinkmann, Technical Department Store . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 85
  14. ^ Conrad von Meding: Public presentation / Kröpcke Center project presented . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 24, 2008
  15. ↑ [1] . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2016

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '30 "  N , 9 ° 44' 7.8"  E