House Bahlsen

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House Bahlsen (2019)

Haus Bahlsen is - in addition to the name for the Bahlsen company - the name of two buildings built one after the other on behalf of the Bahlsen family in Hanover and, among other things, the birthplace of the philosopher Theodor Lessing . The present location property on the corner of Great Packhofstraße is Georgstraße 29 in the district center .

History and description

Lessing's birthplace

Camera house Photo-Lill with shop windows facing Andreaestrasse;
Photo from September 1, 1927

After the Bahlsen family had acquired a building in Schmiedestrasse since 1829 - two houses away from the historic Leibnizhaus - Karl Bahlsen , also called Carl Bahlsen in the same year, had a new one in place of the previously demolished Packhof and at the address Georgstrasse 30 at the time Erecting a building: According to plans by the architect Heinrich Köhler , the first neo-renaissance building in Hanover was erected here in 1863 during the reign of the Kingdom of Hanover , a house used by several tenants, whose first tenants were the building councilor Heinrich Köhler and the cloth merchant August Bahlsen. On February 8, 1872, Theodor Lessing was born in the house at Georgstrasse 30 on the corner of Andreaestrasse - as a house birth - and lived here in his youth.

During the Weimar Republic and still in the 1920s , court photographer Edmund Lill was able to set up a branch of his photo house on the ground floor of the building on September 1, 1927 as a specialty shop for cameras and accessories influenced by the Bauhaus style , with shop windows facing Andreaestrasse.

1945: A result of the air raids on Hanover , here the view from Bahnhofstrasse to the corner building on Andreaestrasse ; in the foreground the former Viennese café with a black cross : "Ruin searched for corpses!"

During the Second World War , the air raids on Hanover left the house on Georgstrasse in ruins.

The current building at Georgstrasse 29

Window framing by Ludwig Vierthaler
Four sculptures by Kurt Lehmann

In the post-war period , according to plans by the architect Karl Siebrecht , the owners had a new six-storey building built between 1950 and 1951 at the address Georgstraße 29 at the corner of Große Packhofstraße. The building, both modern and historic, with echoes of the North German Renaissance and the Hamburg office building architecture, emphasizes its horizontal structure in the facade.

The plastic architectural decoration gave the sculptor Kurt Lehmann with various Giebelfiguren while the abstract and stylized decoration of window frames designed by Ludwig Vierthaler emerged.

Web links

Commons : Bahlsen House  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Zeit , born 1964, issue 27: What Leibniz did not invent, but made him all the more famous: Art Nouveau - price-bound , article from the archive of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit ; some can be viewed online as a preview without registration
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgstraße 29 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 121
  3. ↑ a b Theodor Lessing. Selected Works. Der Lärm, Haarmann, Feind im Land, Once and never again, Nietzsche , Musaicum books, OK publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-80-272-1539-3 , [no page number]; on-line
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Georgstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 90
  5. ↑ Christian Bahlmann, Kerstin Deike, Birgit Nachtwey, Monika Prött: The Bahlsen Family (in English), in: Biscuits is Bahlsen , Bahlsen chronicle, Hanover: Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG Corporate Communications, 2014, p. 181; PDF document from bahlsengroup.com
  6. ↑ a b Compare the street and house directory in the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden, p. 132 as a digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB)
  7. ↑ a b Compare the address book from 1873, Geschäftsanzeiger, p. 15 as a digitized version of the GWLB
  8. ↑ a b N.N. : 50 years in the service of photography. Photo-Lill. The history of a company from 1908–1958 , previously (as of 07/2014) unpublished text for the 50th anniversary of the business, "compiled, designed by the employees of Photo-Lill and dedicated to your senior partner, Mr. Edmund Lill", Hanover: Photo- Lill, 1958 [without page numbers]

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 29.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 15.3"  E