House Cohen (Hanover)

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The Cohen house, built in 1859 in the arched style (far right in the picture) at Georgstrasse 35 at the corner of Kanalstrasse ; Colored postcard number 1417 from Wilhelm Hoffmann AG , around 1900

The Cohen house in Hanover was a residential building built in the mid-19th century at the - then - address Georgstraße 35 at the corner of Kanalstraße in what is now the Mitte district .

history

At the time of the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , King George III. In the 18th century, the razing of the old fortifications of Hanover between stone gate and Aegidientor . By order of the sovereign , a spacious promenade with villas was to be built at the site of the moats outside the medieval city ​​wall . But despite royal subsidies from the state treasury of George III. the development of Georgstrasse was slow at first. Only with the beginning of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover under Ernst August , after the construction of the first Hanoverian train station and the Ernst-August-Stadt designed by the court architect Georg Ludwig Laves and leading there from 1843 , did Georgstrasse, Hanover's new main street, quickly develop into first shopping street and promenade in the former royal seat .

In addition to the numerous houses with their own names on Georgstrasse, the former royal land building inspector Hermann Hunaeus also built a residential building at Georgstrasse 35 for “[…] Dr. Hermann Cohen “which the client was able to move into by 1859 at the latest. The neo-Romanesque brick building named Haus Cohen , modeled on the brick Romanesque , temporarily served as a studio for Edwin Oppler , the Jewish architect and builder, for example, of the New Synagogue in Calenberger Neustadt . Around the same time, the city master builder Ludwig Droste built the neighboring corner house Haus Sternheim at Schillerstraße 35 in 1856 .

City map of Hanover around 1911; the “ Steintor ” as a square-like extension of Georgstraße at the intersection of new streets
Traffic on Steintorplatz around 1905; the Cohen house gave way to the new Art Nouveau building for Ernst Zeyn's commercial building (far right in the picture);
Postcard in collotype , anonymous photographer

During the founding period of the German Empire , Hanover's growth into a major city accelerated rapidly - especially around the Cohen family. The redevelopment of Hanover's old town began with the breakthrough of Heiligerstrasse and Limburgstrasse in 1897 by Ferdinand Wallbrecht ; the “ Steintor ” now developed into the intersection of radially branching streets as a lively, square-like extension of Georgstrasse; right in front of the Cohen house.

The days of peaceful living and working at Georgstrasse 35 were numbered. Only about half a century after its completion, the comparatively "small" residential and studio building gave way to the Ernst Zeyn department store, which opened in 1903 and , according to its own advertising, the "largest house for first-class men's and boys' clothing in the city and province of Hanover ," before it left the fashion chain C&A was taken over.

Archival material

Archives from and about the House of Cohen can be found, for example

Web links

Commons : Haus Cohen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Glaß: Hunaeus, Hermann Franz August Ferdinand in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902)
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke : Georgstrasse. 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. 215.
  4. ^ A b c d Theodor Unger : House Cohen , as well as House Sternheim , in ders .: Hanover. Guide through the city and its buildings. Festschrift for the fifth general assembly of the Association of German Architects and Engineers' Associations. Ed .: Architects and Engineers Association of Hanover, Hanover: Curt R. Vincentz Verlag, 1882, p. 29, 33 (6th reprint edition 1991, Edition libri rari published by Th. Schäfer, Hanover, Th. Schäfer Druckerei, 1991 , ISBN 3-88746-050-2 ), as well as the addendum attached plan of the Royal residence of Hannover from 1882, grid square D4 ; Digitized
  5. ↑ Peter Schulze : Oppler, (2) Edwin. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 276 and others; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1897. In: Hannover Chronik . P. 142; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Wallbrecht, Friedrich Ferdinand Carl on the page glass-portal.privat.t-online.de , last accessed on January 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ Compare, for example, the extract from the 1911 city map
  9. ↑ Compare, for example, this advertisement by Ernst Zeyn from the early 1920s
  10. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Brenninkmeyer C & A Mode. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 83, limited preview in Google Book search
  11. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : 25: House Cohen Georgstrasse at the corner of Kanalstrasse , in ders .: Hanover. From the old train station to the new town hall. Pictorial documents on urban development in the second half of the 19th century , accompanying document to the exhibition of the same name from November 14, 1975 to January 4, 1976 in the Hanover Historical Museum, Hanover: Hanover Historical Museum, [o. D., 1975], p. 12.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 31.4 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 6.4"  E