Georgswall 3

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Charlotte Kestner's former home, to the right of her nearby tomb designed by Laves in the garden cemetery on Marienstraße,
multicolored artist postcard by Otto Pilzecker, around 1898

Georgswall 3 in Hanover is the location of the former home of Charlotte Kestner , Goethe's childhood friend and archetype of “ Lotte ” in Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .

history

Heinrich Jakob Lutz built the corner house at Große Wallstraße 14 in Aegidienvorstadt , which was newly laid out as a city extension of Hanover at the time , in which the still young Kestner family initially rented two upper floors. Charlotte Kestner kept her residence there from 1784 to 1820.

In 1820, Charlotte Kestner moved from her apartment on Grosse Wallstrasse to her own house at Aegidienstraße 4.

More than a century after Charlotte Kestner's death, in 1939 a plaque in memory of "Charlotte Buff-Kestner" was attached to what was then the corner house on Große Wallstraße, which is now Georgsplatz. In World War II the building was, however, soon afterwards by the bombing of Hannover a victim of the bombs .

When standardized city ​​signs were installed at numerous locations in the cityscape of Hanover from 1966 , the Georgswall 3 house received one in memory of its long-time resident Charlotte Kestner, née Buff.

Große Aegidienstraße 4

The Hannover Historical Museum owns a photographic image of Charlotte Kestner's house at Grosse Aegidienstraße 4 . In the picture you can see the writing " Fr. Cruses Buchhandlung und Antiquariat Ost & Georg" above the shop windows on the ground floor .

literature

  • Bernd Adam : "Wohn Heuser vor Herrschaft". Where Charlotte Kestner lived. In: Ulrike Weiß, Kathrin Umbach, Gabriele Hotop, Thomas Schwark (Red.): Goethes Lotte. A woman's life around 1800 (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover . Volume 21). Volume of essays on the traveling exhibition Wetzlar Municipal Collections, City and Industry Museum from May 10, 2003 to June 22, 2003; Weimar Classics Foundation and Art Collections, Goethe National Museum from July 10, 2003 to August 17, 2003; Historisches Museum Hannover from August 28, 2003 to November 30, 2003, publisher: Historisches Museum Hannover (HMH). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-422-06443-5 , pp. 52–69.

Web links

Commons : Georgswall 3 (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Kestner (1), Charlotte Sophia Henriette. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 344. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  2. ↑ a b Inscription on the Hanover city board number 63 on the house
  3. ^ Heide Barmeyer: Christmas in the Kestner household, 1809. Chapter The apartments of the Kestner family. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode. Double volume 57/58, (2003/2004), here v. a, p. 17. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  4. ↑ a b c Barbara Fleischer: Women on a leash. City walks in the footsteps of famous Hanoverians. 3rd, expanded edition. revised edition, Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86541-565-3 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1939. In: Hannover Chronik . P. 182. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  6. ↑ Petra Spona: Honors of people and communal representation. In: Matthias Frese , Marcus Weidner (ed.): Negotiated memories. Dealing with honors, monuments and memorial sites after 1945 (= research on regional history. Volume 82). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-78798-9 , pp. 137–158; here: p. 143. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  7. ^ Oskar Ulrich : Charlotte Kestner. A picture of life. Reprint of the 1921 edition with new illustrations and an afterword by Hartmut Schmidt, Goslar: Verlag August Thuhoff, 1987, ISBN 978-3-923867-07-3 and ISBN 3-923867-07-7 , illustration after p. 104

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 28.9 ″  E