Heine House (Hamburg)

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Heine House in Hamburg

The Heine-Haus is the 1832 built former summer house of Salomon Heine in Hamburg district of Ottensen , Elbchaussee 31st

history

In 1808, the Hamburg banker Salomon Heine bought a plot of land in Altona next to the garden restaurant of Cesar Claude Rainville (1767–1845) (the so-called Rainville Garden ) from the British businessman John Blacker , which he determined as his country residence and had it continuously expanded and beautified. In the main building, which his nephew Heinrich Heine referred to as "Affrontenburg" and which was demolished in 1881, Salomon Heine held lavish parties.

In 1832 a garden house was built in the classical style, the upper floor of which served as accommodation for the gardener. The oval, stucco-adorned so-called “garden room” on the ground floor served Salomon Heine as a refuge. The summer house was spared the great Hamburg fire disaster (1842) in which Salomon Heine lost his town house at 28 Jungfernstieg.

After Salomon Heine died in 1844 and his son and heir Carl Heine died in 1866, the property changed hands several times. In the early 1930s it was owned by the city.

After the garden house remained undamaged during the Second World War , the municipal housing association SAGA took over the building and housed guest workers there until 1978 . As the last architectural souvenir of Salomon Heine, the house was listed as a historical monument in 1962, and since 2006 it has been part of the Heine-Park ensemble, which is also under protection, with the buildings Elbchaussee 31 a and 43 including rows of trees and the parcels of the entire property.

In 1975 a neighbor of the garden house, Helene Gropp, who lived on the former Salomon Heine property, wrote to the newspaper WELT with a letter to the editor and complained about the building's increasing deterioration. As a result, the “Heine-Haus” association was founded on a private initiative and entered in the register of the Hamburg District Court on December 23, 1975 (VR 8388). The association was able to take over the Heinesche Gartenhaus from the tax authorities on a long lease and collected money for the restoration.

After the last tenants moved out in 1978, the architect Jürgen Elingius was won over to undertake a comprehensive restoration project. After a year and a half of construction, the Heine House was opened to the public for the first time on December 5, 1979. In 1989, Klaus Luckey designed a Salomon Heine memorial in the front garden of the house. A second restoration, restoring the interior, took place in 1999/2000 and was funded with € 7,000 by the Hamburg Monument Association. Painting work was carried out and an exhibition infrastructure was installed. Since January 1, 2001, the Heine House has been a branch of the Altona Museum , which opened the exhibition The Theresienstadt Convolute there in February 2002 .

Lecture room (garden hall) in the Heine-Haus

Association and restoration

In 1975 the association Heine-Haus e. V. was founded with the aim of saving the garden house, which was built in 1832 and has been a listed building since 1962, from decay. The first board members of the association include the banker George Hesse , whose great-grandfather and grandfather had already worked in the Commerz-Collegium zu Altona, which was founded in 1783, Ursula Kadereit , Erich Lüth (founding chairman), Dietrich Mayer-Reinach, Jürgen von Storch and Eric M. Warburg . The former mayor Herbert Weichmann and General Wolf Graf Baudissin were also co-founders of the association.

After Erich Lüth died in 1989, the association elected George Hesse as chairman; In 1990 Marion Wachs became his successor. Under her aegis, the association developed a comprehensive program of events for the Heine House, for which Karin Müller has been responsible since 2002. On November 26th, 2009 the physician Hanno Scherf, the literary scholar Beate Borowka-Clausberg and the banking specialist Jürgen Hansen were elected to the board. According to the statutes, two representatives of the Altona Museum have been on the board since 2001.

Cultural offer

The Heine-Haus sees itself as a cultural forum. With an annual program of an average of ten to twelve events, which includes recitations, lectures on historical, literary, cultural and urban history topics, chamber music, lecture concerts and readings, it ties in with the educational mission of the Enlightenment . Some of the lectures are for sale as printed matter.

Salomon Heine badge

On October 31, 1991, the association donated a Salomon Heine plaque designed by Klaus Luckey , which, according to the resolution of the general meeting, is awarded “to individuals or communities for exemplary action for the benefit of Hamburg and its citizens”: “By awarding the plaque should Expressed that personal commitment, moral courage and willingness to take responsibility for the common good are indispensable. "

Bearer of the Salomon Heine plaque:

Published lectures in the Heine House

  • Peter Bloch : Sefarad. The Spanish Jews of the Middle Ages and their culture. September 13, 2000.
  • Peter Bloch: My mother's salon. 80th birthday memories of the author (2001)
  • Helmut Bock : Heinrich Heine in the Mattress Crypt - About Utopia and the Tragedy of the Cosmopolitan (June 19, 1996)
  • Andreas Brämer : The Israelite Temple Association in Hamburg (1817–1938). Jewish Reform and the Invention of Religious Tradition (February 3, 1999)
  • Ludwig Gelder: Three Hamburg art sponsors with long-term effects. Hartwig Hesse, Carl Heine, Julius Campe (December 2, 1996)
  • Walter Hinck : The German language as the “home” of Jewish poets in exile. Heinrich Heine, Hilde Domin, Rose Ausländer (April 7, 1997)
  • Christian Liedtke : "The beer in Weimar is really good." Heinrich Heine's discussion of Goethe (February 9, 2000)
  • Kurt Meissner: The Peace of Westphalia and its Consequences (March 24, 1999)
  • Wilhelm Nölling: The Contribution of Jewish Private Banks to Hamburg's Development (December 3, 1990)
  • Peter Schulz: "Everyone has the moral duty to work for the good of the whole." (Lecture on the occasion of the award of the 2nd Salomon Heine plaque in February 1995)
  • Stefan Winkle : JF Struensee. Doctor - enlightener - statesman. Presented by Hanno Scherf (February 7, 2001)
  • Stefan Winkle: The persecution of the Jews in Europe. Presented by Hanno Scherf (November 8, 2006)
  • Michael Wolffsohn : The Jewish concatenation of German identity or "Let the Moors and the Jews" (Lecture on the occasion of the award of the 1st Salomon Heine plaque, May 6, 1992)

literature

  • Renata Klee Gobert: Garden House Heine . In: Altona. Elbe suburbs (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1970, p. 169 .
  • Matthias Gretzschel : A house with history. In: Hamburger Abendblatt v. December 4, 1999 (web resource) (PDF; 336 kB)
  • Culture in a gem. Heine House Elbchaussee. Heine House V., Hamburg o. J. (1999) (web resource)
  • Peter Andreas: Uncle's nephew and the unpopular apprenticeship. Hamburg, Salomon Heine's garden house. In other words: in an arbor in a green space. Idyll of artists - pavilion and summer house. Structure, Berlin 2003, p. 92 ff., ISBN 978-3-3510-2979-1

Web links

Commons : Heine-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Kultur im Kleinod. Heine House Elbchaussee. Heine House V., Hamburg o. J. (1999) (web resource) .
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, as of April 13, 2010 (PDF; 915 kB) ( Memento from June 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 894 kB), accessed January 4, 2013
  3. ^ Homepage Verein Heine-Haus e. V. , accessed January 4, 2013
  4. ↑ See Heine House. In: The time v. November 14, 1975 Time mosaic Heine House .

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 46.5 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 43.4"  E