Georgstrasse

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View from above of the alley-like Georgstraße in the direction of the Steintor

The George Street in Hanover is the main shopping street in the district center of the Lower Saxon state capital . The approximately one kilometer long road is after Georg III. named, from 1760 Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg ("Kurhannover") and King of Great Britain and Ireland or King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (from 1801) and in personal union from 1814 first King of Hanover .

description

Georgstraße as an avenue with a combined cycle and footpath

Georgstraße extends from the Steintor via the central Kröpcke square to Georgsplatz, which merges into Aegidientorplatz . The western half between Steintor and Kröpcke is the most important shopping street in the city center as a pedestrian zone , the other half with the opera house and the GOP Varieté Theater together with high-end shops forms an elegant promenade.

In the area between Aegidientorplatz and Kröpcke, especially at Georgsplatz, there are sculptures that were placed as part of the street art campaign launched in 1970 , but also works such as “L'air” (referred to in Hanover as “Die Liegende”) by Aristide Maillol , which which Nord LB donated in 1961.

In the section between the opera house and Georgsplatz on an extensive green area there are monuments by Louis Stromeyer , Karl Karmarsch and Heinrich Marschner . The memorial for the Jewish victims of National Socialism by Michelangelo Pistoletto , inaugurated in 1994, is also located here.

In the most profitable shopping streets of Hannover as the Georg, the Bahnhof- and the Great Packhofstraße retail space are for the retail rents of up to 180 euros per square meter (as of 2010). According to a pedestrian frequency count in March 2015, Georgstrasse ranks seventh among the shopping streets in Germany with 12,525 pedestrians between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on a Saturday.

Schorsenbummel

Costumed "Schorsenbummler" on Georgstrasse

Since the 1980s, the Schorsenbummel has been taking place annually in May, June and September on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The name Schorse as a modification of Georg stands for King George III. who subsidized the construction of Georgstrasse with 500 thalers in 1787 . The Schorsenbummel is based on a ritual from the 1920s and 1930s, when wealthy citizens, members of the aristocracy as well as high school students, students and officers strolled on the street to “see and be seen”. Today's Schorsenbummel is a kind of re-enactment in which costumed “Schorsenbummler” stroll on the “Schorsengasse”, as Georgstraße was also called. Further entertainment is provided by music groups, cabaret and a concert in front of the opera house .

history

Georgstrasse at the level of Karmarschstrasse, around 1890
Around 1900: Similar view over Café Kröpcke; Photo postcard from Karl Friedrich Wunder

The street was created in 1787 - with the participation of the Hofsteinhauer and later court and council mason Johann Georg Taentzel - through the designation of around 40 building plots on a flattened rampart of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover , which were razed from 1779 . The street was on the former fortifications between the stone gate and the Aegidienneustadt , which included moat, rampart and four bastions. The street was planned with villas as a representative street.

The first building ever on Neue Straße was built on the corner of what was then Reitwallstraße , based on plans by the Royal British and Electoral Hanoverian court - carpenter Johann Heinrich Daniel Holekamp , designed from 1792 onwards, presented in 1795 and probably only implemented around 1800 .

Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves had four houses built between 1822 and 1825 .

architecture

The following buildings and works of art along Georgstraße are worth mentioning:

  • Normal clock (listed)
  • Schiller Monument (listed), created in 1863 by Wilhelm Engelhard , erected in 1982 at its current location
  • Commercial building at Georgstraße 2a (listed)
  • Drachentöterhaus , Georgstraße 10 (listed), built 1900–1901 according to plans by Hermann Schaedtler and Karl Hantelmann , originally a semi-detached house for the furniture manufacturer Louis Fuge, of which only the entrance facade has survived
  • Commercial building Georgstraße 12 (listed)
  • Georgstraße 22 commercial building (listed): In 1950, the interior of the Sprengel chocolate factory , which no longer exists, was completed according to plans by Ernst Zinsser
  • Commercial building at Georgstrasse 24 (listed)
  • Figures at the Bahlsen House , Georgstrasse 27–29, created in 1950/51 by Kurt Lehmann. The building is now used by the Gisy shoe store.
  • Former Magis department store , Georgstraße 31/33 (listed). Today used as a branch of Hennes & Mauritz and Douglas perfumeries .
  • Georgspalast , Georgstraße 36 (listed), today used by the GOP Varieté Theater Hannover.
  • Commercial building Georgstrasse 44 (listed)
  • House of the former Hannoversche Kurier , Georgstraße 52 (listed)
  • House Basse, Georgstraße 54 (listed)

See also

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Getty Museum in Los Angeles , accessed September 26, 2019
  2. Ludwig Zerull: Art without a roof. Sculptures and objects in the cityscape of Hanover , Verlag Th.Schäfer, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-88746-278-5 , p. 49
  3. High centrality, stable rents and new tenants , in: Immobilien Zeitung of June 17, 2010, p. 18
  4. Schorsenbummel at hannover.de
  5. ^ Helmut Knocke: Taentzel, Tän (t) zel, (3) Johann Georg, in: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 616
  6. a b 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.
  7. a b Helmut Flohr : The Zimmeramt der Alt- und Neustadt Hannover , in ders .: Construction and carpentry in the Calenberger Land: Environment and structure of a craft business in the 1st half of the 19th century , Laatzen-Grasdorf, Langer Brink No. 16: H. Flohr, 1991, pp. 17-22; here: p. 18f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 30 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  E