Heinemanhof

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Entrance to the former Heinemanstift before the renovation

The Heinemanhof (formerly also Heinema nn -Stift ) in Hanover is a former Jewish women's monastery , which the architect Henry van de Velde built in the early 1930s. The building in the Bauhaus style , classified as a “nationally valuable cultural monument ” , now serves as an interdenominational care and “ competence center for dementia ” in the capital of Lower Saxony. The location is on Heinemanhof street on Brabeckstraße in the Kirchrode district .

history

The also listed “gatehouses” at the entrance from Brabeckstraße to “Privatstraße” Heinemanhof
A memorial plaque at the main entrance to the historic building

The industrialist Dannie N. Heineman , born in the USA in 1872 as the child of the Jewish emigrants from Germany, Minna and James Heineman , founded after the death of his mother in 1927

"... [together] with his wife Hettie in memory of his studies [... at the Technical University ] in Hanover and in memory of his parents ..."

1928 the Minna and James Heineman Foundation . According to the deed of foundation should

"... older, needy , single women of the educated classes , preferably of the Jewish faith and preferably from the city of Hanover, are granted accommodation and food for their retirement in a separate foundation house, and usually free of charge."

A corresponding building was now required to carry out the foundation's purposes: “Heinemann” commissioned the architect Henry van de Velde to build the Heinemanhof, which he built between 1930 and 1931 with particularly spacious apartments . The old people's and nursing home for Jewish women was then maintained by the Minna and James Heineman Foundation .

In 1930, roughly at the same time as the construction was being carried out, the garden and landscape architect Wilhelm Hübotter created the garden of the "Heinemanstift" - no longer preserved in its original concept.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 the year lived until 1939, the beginning of the Second World War some 60 people in Heinemanstift, (including staff). But by 1941 at the latest, the situation for the residents of the retirement home changed dramatically: As a result of the so-called “ Aktion Lauterbacher ”, the old people's home was forcibly converted into mass quarters for a total of 190 fellow citizens of Jewish faith from September 4, 1941 and was finally vacated in November of the same year. While the residents were forcibly crammed into one of the so-called Jewish houses , the Minna James Heineman Foundation was incorporated into the Reich Association of Jews in Germany by order of the Reich Minister of the Interior - and then expropriated . Almost all of the former residents of the retirement home were “victims of National Socialist tyranny ”: Emmy Steinfeld , née Rinteln , and Ida Steinfeld , née Hirschfeld , were first deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and finally murdered in Treblinka . None of the former residents of the Heinemanstift returned after their deportations to the concentration and extermination camps in Riga , Auschwitz or Theresienstadt.

Stumbling blocks against oblivion in Brabeckstrasse , here for Emmy and Ida Steinfeld
In 1969 Herbert Volwahsen set up "Dancers" in the courtyard

In the meantime, the building of the former Heineman monastery had been acquired by the NS-Volkswohlfahrt . Previously was near the building of the former General Command of the German Wehrmacht (today as of September 2012: Kurt-Schumacher-barracks of the military district commands at the Hans-Böckler-Allee ), which was completed in 1938, the about the same time in the Bult built Retirement home of the Gustav Brandtschen Foundation "for innocent needy Christian men from the merchant class" was built. Now that the former residents of the Heinemanstift had been deported, the building of the Gustav Brandtschen Foundation was confiscated by the Wehrmacht in 1942 and in 1942 the male residents of Christian faith were relocated to the former women's monastery. In the same year the Gustav Brandtschen Foundation was damaged many times by the air raids on Hanover .

After the end of the Second World War, the former Heinemanstift was used from 1945 to 1958 for the accommodation of British military units. Finally, the Henry van de Velde building was returned to the Minna James Heineman Foundation , which was re -established in 1960 . The latter sold the building to the city of Hanover, which then initially gave shelter to the homeless with the house .

In the later years of reconstruction the city of Hanover built from 1965 to 1968 - 1969, the sculpture was outside the building Dancing by Herbert Volwahsen set up - and, later, in 2007, the former collegiate Jewish Hanover city to a larger nursing home from; Since then, numerous new buildings around the former women's monastery have impaired the effect of the van de Velde building. In particular, the park-like outdoor area, which was previously designed by the garden and landscape architect Wilhelm Hübotter , was massively built over.

Information board for the renovation from 2011 to 2016

The duration of the renovation of the Heinemanhof was set from 2011 to 2016.

Heinemanhof Nursing Center Competence Center Dementia

Building plan "Heinemanhof" competence center dementia with the attached Seewald building

Today's urban retirement and nursing home is now called the “Heinemanhof Care Center Competence Center Dementia”. In 2009, the facility had a total of more than 150 care places, including around 100 for people in geronto-psychiatric care.

Description of the historical main building

View of the entrance area with the access ramp from the west

The almost 500 m long facade of the elongated main building, which Van de Velde faced with “Belgian hand-stitched clinker bricks” in the early 1930s, shows a “quiet north side with narrow ribbon windows” to which a ramp was placed as an entrance porch. In contrast, the rhythmically moving south side is enlivened by multi-step staircases, porches, bay windows and balconies.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Heinemanhof (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ For example, in Günter Stamm, 1972 (see lit.) and Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen Lower Saxony, Munich 1992, p. 636
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Peter Schulze: Heinemanhof (see literature)
  3. ↑ a b c Sebastian Harfst: Preservation of monuments / New facade ... (see literature)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f see this photo of the memorial plaque from 1982 on the entrance porch of the Heinemanhof
  5. ↑ a b c Hans Werner Dannowski: "We're going into the village" ... (see literature)
  6. ↑ Compare this city ​​table Hanover number 80, "Brabeckstraße 86"
  7. ↑ Helmut Knocke: HÜBOTTER .... In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , pp. 179, 368, online via Google books
  8. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Heinemanhof (see literature)
  9. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Israelitische Gartenbauschule Ahlem . In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 318f.
  10. ↑ Compare the inscriptions on the first two stumbling blocks in front of Brabeckstraße 86
  11. ↑ Kai de Weldige: Minna-James-Heineman-Stiftung / Foundation purpose ... / Foundation history ... (see web links)
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Bult. In: Denkmaltopographie… [see literature] …, Part 1 , Vol. 10.1, 1983, pp. 140–144; here: p. 143
  13. ↑ a b c seniorenzentrum-gbs.de: The history of the Gustav Brandt'schen Foundation ( memento from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Kirchrode (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 31.2 ″  E