House Maschstrasse 25 (Hanover)
The house at Maschstrasse 25 is an office building in the Hanover district of Südstadt , which was built between 1892 and 1894 as the seat of the Hanover Old Age and Invalidity Insurance Institute (later Hanover State Insurance Institute , now the German Pension Insurance Braunschweig-Hanover ).
history
The law passed by the Reichstag on May 24, 1889 , regarding disability and old-age insurance , decided to set up the German pension insurance . Insurance companies were set up in the federal states to deal with a specific area. For the province of Hanover , this became the Hanover Old Age and Invalidity Insurance Company , which wanted to establish its administrative headquarters in Maschstrasse.
A competition for a multi-storey building on an acute-angled property between Maschstrasse and Hildesheimer Strasse was announced, from which the architect Heinrich Siepmann emerged victorious. Based on his design, the representative building was erected in the neo-renaissance style from 1892 to 1894 . Historical coats of arms on the facade reflect the area of responsibility of the insurance company:
Coat of arms of the insurance company
The building was one of the first larger administrative buildings in the southern part of the city and is still of outstanding urban significance today : A "5/8 tower with the attached two-storey arbor " emphasizes the corner design to the "former Lehzenstraße" and is a striking point of view for the road entrance from the Langensalzastraße . In the first half of the 20th century, the building was expanded with several additions in the direction of Hildesheimer Straße .
Todays use
In 1974 the district of Hanover bought the building complex and in 1978 its administration moved into it. After the formation of the Hanover region in 2001 as the legal successor to the Hanover district and the Greater Hanover municipal association, an extension to the regional house in Hildesheimer Strasse, providing space for around 300 employees, was moved into in May 2007.
literature
- Wolfgang Neß : Maschstrasse Insurance Company. In: Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1. (= Volume 10.1.) Friedrich Vieweg & Son, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203- 7 , p. 123f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Neß: Insurance Company Maschstrasse (see literature)
- ↑ The "former Lehzenstraße" was the connection between Hildesheimer Straße and Meterstraße . It was named in 1874 after the "Ministerialvorstand Wilhelm Lehzen (born January 5, 1806 in Neustadt am Hohenstein; † March 3, 1856 in Hanover)", who had previously lived there . The road was repealed in 1955; Lehzen then gave its name to the connection established in 1957 between Wiesenstrasse and Auf dem Emmerberge . Source : Helmut Zimmermann : Lehzenstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 157.
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Region Hannover. 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. 519.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '55.1 " N , 9 ° 44' 39.8" E