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Wunder-Haus around 1879: Carte de visite by Karl F. Wunder

The Wunder-Haus is a residential and commercial building built in the 19th century at Friedrichswall 17 opposite the New Town Hall in Hanover . It is a listed building and is named after its builder, the photographer Karl Friedrich Wunder .

history

The building was commissioned by Karl Friedrich Wunder, who came from the “Wunder Dynasty” and was very prosperous. He was the son and successor of Friedrich Karl Wunder , the first and most famous photographer in Hanover in the 19th century. Karl F. Wunder was not only able to afford the property in its "first-class location" at the time, but was also able to engage the architect Christoph Hehl to build his new home and business premises in 1879 .

After the annexation by Prussia in 1866 , the face of the previously "elegant and aristocratic" Friedrichstrasse in the Kingdom of Hanover changed with the construction of the Wunder-Haus . The Wunder-Haus heralded the age of bourgeois housing construction on “Friedrichstrasse”. With its four and a half storeys, it towered over the neighboring noble seat of the Counts Bernstorff and Bremer .

The Palais Bremer gave way to the breakthrough of Ebhardtstrasse in 1891 , but the course of the cobblestone street was only straightened after the Second World War as part of the car-friendly city .

As a result of the Wunder-Haus , a four-and-a-half-storey building was created here, directly between the (expired) aristocratic palaces of Counts Bernstorff and Bremer and more than a quarter of a century before the inauguration of the New Town Hall, which was described in 1882 as follows:

“High facade with a bay window in red brick and structurally related white sandstone. Nice gothic detailing. "

- NN : Guide through the city and its buildings, 1882

As a bourgeois building, the house broke the proportions in the former Friedrichstrasse , as it clearly towered over the old manorial aristocratic residences.

The reception rooms were on the ground floor. In the main floor on the first floor the family lived on the second floor wonder and the studios were the photographer. Karl's atelier in the Wunder-Haus received one of the first connections to the telephone network in Hanover in 1887. The Wunder businesses did not survive the economic difficulties caused by inflation in the 1920s .

The Wunder-Haus survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II relatively well. The lower floors and the bay window still reveal the Gothic detailing. The Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover is currently using the building.

literature

Web links

Commons : Haus Wunder (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ludwig Hoerner in: Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910. With a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-921375-44-4 . P. 37f.
  2. ↑ Gerd Weiß (together with Marianne Zehnpfennig): The southern ramparts: Friedrichswall. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1 , Vol. 10.1, published by the Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , here: p. 66f.
  3. ↑ Guide through the city and its buildings . Klindworth Publishing House, 1882.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 6.3 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 19.6"  E