House Basse

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"Haus Basse" behind plane trees in Georgstrasse 54 , today, among other things, the venue for the New Theater

The house Basse in Hannover , as Bankhaus Lower or Lower Bank referred, was founded in the 19th century private bank . Location of the well simply as "Bankhaus Wilhelm Basse" designated today listed banking house , also the oldest surviving building in the immediate George Street , the George Street 54 in Hanover district center .

history

The banking institute was founded in 1890 by Wilhelm Basse , the son of the banker August Basse , in the late founding period of the German Empire . To its customer base the bank from the beginning the family counted Guelph , after the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia into exile emigrated was. As one of the most respected private banking houses in the former royal seat of Hanover, Haus Basse also served all areas of banking .

Originally two crowned spiers the House Bass (second house from the left);
on the right the Hannoversche Bank on Georgsplatz ;
Color lithographed picture postcard No. 1421 B of Wilhelm Hoffmann AG , Dresden
Basement over two floors ; in the Salon of Kate Steinitz in the Bel Etage , the international was avant-garde a tryst

In the years between 1891 and 1895, Wilhelm Basse had what was then a new building on Georgstrasse. The architect Friedrich Geb clad the symmetrical facade facing the street with ashlar panels, while the building decoration was formulated in the forms of the neo-renaissance and neo-baroque styles. The formation of the basement floor over two floors and the protrusion of the upper floors through bay windows and balustrade were mapped out .

Deliberately left burn marks on the stairs to the first floor

Some of the best-known tenants of Wilhelm Basse, who among other things was one of “the most important patrons of the Kestner Society ”, were the couple Käte and Ernst Steinitz , who moved from Berlin to Hanover after the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic . In the couple's apartment in Haus Basse, in Käte Steinitz's salon on Bel Etage , the international avant-garde of the art and intellectual scene of the time soon met , including Kurt Schwitters , Christof Spengemann , El Lissitzky , Mary Wigman and Herwarth Walden , but also Raoul Hausmann , Lazlo Moholy-Nagy , Ludwig Hilbesheimer , representatives of the Bohème such as Ada and Theodor Lessing , Claire Waldoff and Lucy Otto-Hillebrand as well as Raoul Hausmann and many others. Käte Steinitz wrote articles for the features section of the daily newspaper Hannoverscher Kurier published in the neighboring Kurierhaus .

At the end of the 1920s, the son of the bank founder, Wilfried Basse , wrote film history when he started working as a documentary filmmaker at Haus Basse . One of the frequent guests of Käte Steinnitz in the house was also her journalist colleague Curt Habicht , whom the artist , who later emigrated to the United States of America , was to cross out in her guest book with the words: "Burned books." What was meant was the change the apparent attitude of her former guest hawk in the house Basse after the seizure of power by the National Socialists was meant to hawk active participation in the burning of books in Hanover .

After Jewish facilities such as the New Synagogue burned later in 1938 during the so-called " Reichskristallnacht ", and then millions of people in the Nazi extermination camps, the Basse House was also a victim of the flames during the air raids on Hanover . On October 9, 1943, a fire bomb by the Allies of the anti-Hitler coalition destroyed parts of the building, especially the attic.

One of the tenants was the " Oriental Carpet - Museum Hannover"
Access to the new theater and restoration

After the end of the war and the renovation of the building, the owner of the property deliberately left a few traces of fire on the wooden steps in the stairwell of the Bassebank, and attached an explanatory memorial plaque on the first floor of the bank.

In 1985 the Bassebank - the penultimate Hanoverian private bank - was closed "[...] due to insolvency by the Federal Banking Supervisory Office ".

literature

  • Kate T. Steinitz: Kurt Schwitters. Memories from the years 1918 - 1930 , contains u. a. Memories of musical occasions and personalities as well as sheet music examples in facsimile as well as photos and drawings, Zurich: Verlag Die Arche, 1963

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Georgstraße 34 is mentioned differently , compare Hugo Thielen : Steinitz, (2) Kate Trauman. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 348; Preview via Google books , or Peter Struck : Hanover in 3 days. An entertaining cultural guide , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-659-9 , passim ; online through google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Georgstrasse. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1, (Bd.) 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 80ff .; as well as middle , in the addendum list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6f.
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Bassebank. 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. 51.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Geb, Friedrich Gottfried in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , in the version of March 3, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c d Hugo Thielen : STEINITZ, (2) Kate Trauman. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 348 and others; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Ines Katenhusen : Note 1105 [with numerous references], in: Kunst und Politik. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art, in the series Hanoverian Studies , series of publications by the Hanover City Archives, Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 346
  6. ^ A b Peter Struck: Hanover in 3 days. An entertaining cultural guide , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-659-9 , passim ; online through google books
  7. ↑ Barbara Fleischer: Women on a Leash. A city walk in the footsteps of famous Hanoverians , 3rd, expanded and newly revised edition, Berlin: Lehmanns Media, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86541-428-1 , preview via Google books
  8. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgstrasse 52. In: Hanover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 122
  9. ↑ Ines Katenhusen: "Unclear scientific attitudes produce unclear scientific results ..." The art historian, critic and writer Victor Curt Habicht, in this: Art and Politics. Hanover's disputes ... , pp. 493–509
  10. ↑ a b Compare the documentation, for example using the photo of the memorial plaque in the staircase of Haus Basse

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 16.6 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 28.3"  E