Friedrich Wilhelm House
The Friedrich-Wilhelm house in Hanover is a listed commercial building at Georgstrasse 44 at the corner of Windmühlenstrasse in Hanover's Mitte district .
History and description
Postcard number K 43 from Friedr. Astholz jun.
The property belonging to the House of Friedrich-Wilhelm is located in the old town of Hanover and was originally given the house number 1142 before industrialization in the 19th century . At the time of the German Empire , the property changed to the new owner on September 28, 1905, according to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden, and according to the entry in the land register noted by the Hanover District Court : The Friedrich Wilhelm, Preussische Lebens- und Garantie-Versicherungs-Actien-Gesellschaft also gave its name to the new building to be built, initially at number 27.
The Friedrich-Wilhelm house was finally acquired in 1906 according to plans by the Berlin- based architecture firm Cremer & Wolffenstein : On Opernplatz and across from the opera house , it was a department store in the strict neo-baroque style . Similar to the nearby Georgspalast , which was erected about half a decade later in steel frame construction , the building with the - today - house number 44 formed one of "those commercial buildings with an ashlar facade which , in their reduced historical quotations, represent the objectified department store buildings of the time before the First World War ."
The roof zone of the Friedrich-Wilhelm house was originally " interspersed with baroque style elements".
As one of the first tenants of the shop area on the ground floor , the Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik (WMF) offered its products to the public for sale. Jacobus Reimers , the director of the then Hanover Provincial Museum for Art and Science , also lived on the third floor as one of the house's prominent tenants during the imperial era .
Parts of the house were destroyed during the air raids on Hanover in World War II; the roof zone was completely lost. A simple purpose-built structure that was added later may have subsequently led to the assumption that it was an Art Nouveau building.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgstraße , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 120f., Here: p. 121
- ↑ 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 (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 68f .; here: p. 69; as well as in the middle of the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 3ff .; here: p. 4
- ↑ a b c d Compare the address book, city and business handbook of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1910, p. 100; online as a digitized version via the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
- ↑ oV : Advertisements special. We in the city. Interview with Sebastian Reccius, board member of DI Deutschland.Immobilien AG , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from February 13, 2018, p. 17
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 20.7 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 24.2" E