House Mohrmann (Hanover)

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The renovated Mohrmann House in the northern part of Hanover

The so-called Mohrmann House (also: Mohrmann House ) in Hanover was built by the professor of architecture and architect Karl Mohrmann at the end of the 19th century as a house for his own family. The location of the listed row house , which is part of an ensemble by the same architect, is the Herrenhäuser Kirchweg 11 at the corner of Reinholdstraße in the Landhausviertel , Nordstadt district .

history

Construction and destruction

" Science "; Terracotta - Relief on 1902 cultivated House Reinhold Straße 5
Three-quarter sculpture with the portrait of the client on the corner tower of the ensemble

When Karl Mohrmann became Professor of “ Medieval Architecture and Design of Public Buildings” at the Technical University of Hanover in 1894 as the successor to Conrad Wilhelm Hase , he continued Hase's neo - Gothic teaching program with a few changes. After Mohrmann also held the office of consistorial councilor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover from 1898 , the architect finally built his own residential building north of Nienburger Strasse in the area, which was then designated as the “Landhausviertel”, not far from the Herrenhausen Gardens .

The development of the "Landhausviertel" only began almost a quarter of a century after the development along Nienburger Strasse, which had already begun in 1874 ("Parkhaus" from 1874 and the associated former "Stadtpark" with "castle ruins" on Herrenhäuser Kirchweg). By 1902, Karl Mohrmann added the building at Reinholdstrasse 5 to his own house , and the houses numbered 7 and 9 apart from it. Three large municipal buildings were erected in the immediate vicinity at around the same time; from 1892 the central hospital , 1900 to 1903 the former "midwifery training facility" (state women's clinic) and the "citizen school 57/58" on Halthoffstrasse .

Karl Mohrmann's granddaughter Karin Weisser later also lived in the corner building with the representative tower and the relief portrait of the client . Her nanny Lisbeth lived on the upper floor of the building. At the time, the tower housed the children's room and a windowless room in which the host presented light-sensitive artifacts from his Egyptian collection to “selected guests” . Also protected from view, but flooded with light, the son of Karl Mohrmann, Bernward Mohrmann , used the roof terrace behind the battlements of the house for unconventional naturist joys.

After Karl Mohrmann's death in 1927, Deichmannstrasse , originally named after Major Arnold Deichmann , which was laid out in 1935 near the Mohrmann House , was renamed Mohrmannstrasse in 1936 .

To this day, a black cross announces the air raids on Hanover : "Searched for corpses."

However, Mohrmann's granddaughter Karin Weisser also remembered the near total destruction in 1943 after the air raids on Hanover in World War II . To this day, a black cross on the near- ruin indicates that the building had been searched for corpses at the time.

Emergency construction and renovation

View of the remains of the tower, which was previously only poorly covered, and to the right of it the house at Reinholdstrasse 5

At the end of the 1940s the Mohrmann House was supposed to be demolished. Due to the severe housing shortage - around 48% of Hanover was destroyed - it was repaired as a makeshift. The formerly high tower was only raised up to the level of the roof level, the originally richly decorated gable on Herrenhäuser Kirchweg has now been simply plastered.

From 2011, the community of heirs of the Mohrmann House, consisting of the three siblings and great-grandchildren of Karl Mohrmann Lutz Weisser , architect in Berlin, Cordula Weisser, architect in London, and the physician Burkhard Weisser , "now almost restore the magnificent building to its original shape" . After the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation and the City Monument Office approved the reconstruction plans for the cultural monument , the Hanover-based architect Thomas Ceglarek , who was previously responsible for the reconstruction of Marienburg Castle , was commissioned with the construction work. In addition to the six apartments in the Mohrmann House on the roof that were built after the Second World War, two more units with 70 m² and 130 m² of living space were to be created for high demand. To approximate reconstruction of the building envelope could Thomas Ceglarek the estate of Karl Mohrmann in Hannover City Archives oriented. In addition, after an original was found in the basement, it was possible to reconstruct lost gable rosettes on the side of the Herrenhäuser Kirchweg in stainless steel.

The joy of the “third” topping-out ceremony for the Mohrmann House almost two months later was overshadowed by the tragic death of a 42-year-old fitter from a construction company from Rinteln: the man had an accident while dismantling the construction crane.

Building description

The 1899 to 1900 in succession to the Hanover School Of Architecture built brick corner building conveys - partial reconstructions despite partial destruction during the war, after the war and during the recent renovation by Teilverputzung - a good impression "of his Gothicising design language and the generous surface decoration", such as the brown and green glazed shaped stones .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Herrenhäuser Kirchweg 11 (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Sperlich: House Mohrmann ... (see web links)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Kristian Teetz: Nordstadt / Mohrmann-Haus is being renovated (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c d Gerd Weiß: Herrenhäuser Kirchweg / Reinholdstraße (see literature)
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke : MOHRMANN, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . P. 258 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ↑ Gerd Weiß: The residential areas with open buildings. In: Monument topography ... (see literature), p. 110.
  6. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Public Buildings. In: Monument topography ... (see literature), p. 113 ff.
  7. ↑ a b c d Gerda Valentin: Reconstruction / topping-out ceremony for the Mohrmann House in the HAZ on September 1, 2011, last accessed on December 5, 2012.
  8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Mohrmannstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 176.
  9. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Second World War. 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. 694 f.
  10. ↑ Vivien-Marie Drews: Accident / worker trapped in crane and fatally injured. in the HAZ of November 1, 2011, accessed on December 5, 2012

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '31.1 "  N , 9 ° 42' 37.2"  E