Hansa House (Hanover)

The Hansa-Haus on the corner of Aegidientorplatz and Schiffgraben with arcades along Marienstraße

The Hansa-Haus in Hanover is an office and commercial building that was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Berlin construction company Boswau & Knauer and is now a listed building. The site of the monument used by the Norddeutsche Landesbank and the European Information Center (EIZ) Lower Saxony , Lower Saxony State Chancellery is Aegidientorplatz 4 on the corner of Schiffgraben and Marienstraße in Hanover's Mitte district .

History and description

The building was originally built in the neo-baroque style between 1905 and 1906 by Boswau & Knauer at the time of the German Empire . A café was set up on the ground floor and was used regularly from 1907, for example, for the autumn meeting of the Scientific Preachers' Association in Hanover .

In 1920 the predecessor of today's Norddeutsche Landesbank bought the building, and from 1920 to 1922 the ground floor with ancillary rooms for the "Girobank headquarters" was redesigned into a counter hall by the brothers Karl Siebrecht and Albert Siebrecht . The interior was decorated in the manner of a three-aisled basilica with impressive expressionist details by the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler . While the flat ceiling was covered with mesh-like stucco, the walls and other interior parts are provided with abstract relief structures. A stone sculpture with an idol of Mammon was placed over the large door of the safe .

The building was partially damaged during the air raids on Hanover in World War II . In the post-war years, the - today's - monument was rebuilt, greatly simplified, and raised by one floor.

In 1976 the architects Langer & Friess built the former counter hall into an open-plan office , which was later divided again by partition walls. However, a restoration of the former floor plan is planned.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Hannover-Mitte

literature

• Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Aegidientorplatz 4 , in: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 75
• Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Schiffgraben and former Georg-Stadt / Marien-Stadt (cf. 09 Oststadt / 04 Südstadt) , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 76-79; here: p. 77; as well as: middle in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3ff.

Web links

Commons : Hansa-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Schiffgraben ... (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Aegidientorplatz 4 (see literature)
3. ↑ Compare the imprint on the EIZ website
4. ↑ Trutz Rendtorff, Katja Thörner (ed.): Writings on religious studies and ethics (1903-1912) / Ernst Troeltsch (= critical complete edition / Ernst Troeltsch , vol. 6), Berlin; Boston, Massachusetts: De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-026158-5 , p. 288; online through google books

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.4 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 38.7"  E