Hermann Rexhausen

Memorial stone with a poem freely after Otto Julius Bierbaum

Hermann Rexhausen (* 1876 ; † 1923 ) was a German entrepreneur for furniture construction and interior design in Hanover . He was a freemason and builder of the (today's) cultural monument Hermannshof in Völksen .

Life

family

Herrmann Rexhausen was the son of Heinrich Rexhausen († 1901), who founded a joinery in Hanover in 1886 . He was married to Hertha , with whom he had the daughter Hanna († around 1929). At the address of the future factory for woodworking even the early 1960s lived the architect and world record - balloonist Gerd Sophus Rexhausen (1906-1971).

Companies

After the death of his father, Hermann Rexhausen took over the family business in 1901 and continuously expanded it under the company Hermann Rexhausen, a woodworking factory at Celler Strasse 35/36.

Expansion of the former municipal building authority in Hanover,
postcard no.1053, Karl F. Wunder , around 1905

Bismarck School in Hanover

Design of the New Town Hall in Hanover

The company has been involved in the interior design of large buildings including:

Urban buildings

• the former Stadtbauamt am Friedrichswall, which was completed by 1906 (destroyed in World War II)
• the Bismarck School, which was moved into in 1911
• the New Town Hall, inaugurated in 1913
• the secondary school at Clevertor, which was moved into in 1913
• the 1913 completed town hall at the city ​​park

State buildings

• the main station, which was expanded several times from 1909
• the new construction of the Hanover Post Office on Zeppelinstrasse, begun on July 19, 1913
• other extensions to the post office

Buildings for retail

• Department store of Rudolph Karstadt AG
• Department store for the entrepreneur Max Molling on Seilwinderstraße
• Elsbach & Frank department store
• temporarily from Wilh. Boetticher- run textile house IG von der Linde

With the beginning of the First World War , interior fittings were less in demand; instead, Rexhausen predominantly received orders from the German Army , especially for the construction of all kinds of military vehicles .

Striding youth by Bernhard Hoetger , 1910
(considered lost, a replica of the Kulturstiftung Landkreis Osterholz in Worpswede was on loan at the Hermannshof in 2009 )

The summer house of the Rexhausen family, which they moved into in 1920, later a boarding school for girls , seen from the north side, today the Hermannshof guest house

The entrepreneurial profits from the time before and during the world war were apparently so great that Hermann Rexhausen began planning a summer residence in Völksen from 1916 - still in the middle of the war . It is unclear whether the property, which was completed by 1920 and whose property was characterized by two former stone quarries , was one of the reasons for choosing the summer residence, because “the rough stone [was] a central symbol ” of the Freemasons, to which Rexhausen belonged. To this day, it has not yet been finally clear whether the residential building of the country estate was built according to plans by the architect Bernhard Hoetger . A photo that is still in the possession of the Rexhausen family and labeled "Model B. Hoetger" refers to the personal acquaintance with Hoetger. The residential building actually realized hardly corresponds to the photographed “model”, but shows striking parallels with the Diedrichshof and its gardens redesigned by Hoetger in Worpswede in 1914 .

In addition, there are photographs with images of members of the Rexhausen and Hoetger families

• from 1917 in front of the tea pavilion on the premises; as well as later labeled
• "17th July 1920 for the Hermannshof consecration ”, which also shows the sculpture Schreitender Jüngling created by Hoetger in Paris in 1910 , as well as
• “ Picnic in the park. B. Hoetger with Mrs. Lee. After dinner a dance to the gramophone . Summer 1920 ”.

The residential building for the summer residence in Völksen, which was completed for the Rexhausen family by 1920, refers with its decorative ribbon to the three pillars of Freemasonry, " Wisdom , Strength , Beauty ":

"Guide wisdom, protect strength, beauty adorn our house"

The memorial stone erected in the park area for the entrepreneur who died in the year of the height of German hyperinflation in 1923 also refers to beauty with an inscription , freely based on a poem by Otto Julius Bierbaum :

"And I go with you, who I love, into the shade of our house, into the garden full of beauty, into peace."

After the death of her husband, who died of a heart attack at the age of only 57 , Hertha Rexhausen initially continued the property as a girls' boarding school , but after the early death of her daughter Hanna in 1929 , she sold the property to the Adolf Hofmann family in Hanover, where they went Widow then forgave.

literature

• Paul Siedentopf (main editor): Hermann Rexhausen, Hanover. Wood processing factory. Cellerstraße 35/36 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 (DBdaF 1927), with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the picture material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, p. 63
• Rainer Schomann, Michael Heinrich Schormann: The cultural monument. In: Marie Lampert (Red.): Poetry visual. The Hermannshof cultural monument. Photographs by Horst Schäfer. (published on the occasion of the exhibition Poetry Visuell, Horst Schäfer sees the Hermannshof garden monument in Landestrost Castle from June 19 to July 19, 2009 by the Hermannshof Art and Encounter Association) zu Klampen, Springe 2009, ISBN 978-3-86674-066-2 , Pp. 49-59 and ö.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Rexhausen (industrialist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marie Lampert (Red.): Chronicle / From summer residence to cultural monument on the page hermannshof.de , accessed on November 2, 2013
• Alexander Künzel (Ed.): Erwin-Stauss-Institut - Diedrichshof - , miniature comparison images on the page diedrichshof.de , accessed on November 2, 2013
• Dirk Sarnes (Ed.): Hermannshof Völksen on the hannover.de page , accessed on November 2, 2013

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v} Rainer Schomann, Michael Heinrich Schormann: Das Kulturdenkmal (see literature)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Marie Lampert (Red.): Chronicle ... (see under the section Weblinks )
4. ↑ Compare Peter Bruders: Jubilee Yearbook of the German Research Institute for Aviation and Space Travel. V. 1912-1962. German Research Institute for Aviation and Space Travel V., Porz-Wahn 1962, p. 386. ( limited preview on Google books )
5. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : 1929. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 168. ( Preview on Google books )
6. ^ Wolfgang Leonhardt : World record balloonist Gerd Sophus Rexhausen. In: Karl Jatho's first powered flight in 1903. 100 years of flight history in Hannover & Langenhagen. Balloon, zeppelin, glider, missile, airport. 1st edition, Book-on-Demand , self-published, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-8311-3499-5 , p. 307 f.
7. ↑ HÖLLENFAHRT IN A FREIBALLOON: A music game by Gerold Amann. Retrieved August 16, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Rudolf-Hillebrecht-Platz 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 190 f.
9. ↑ Wolfgang Neß: Bismarck School. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): City of Hanover, Part 1. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 10.1.) ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 119.
   and Annex Südstadt. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 7 ff.
10. ^ Helmut Knocke : New Town Hall. 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. 466 f.
11. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Schools. In: City of Hanover, part 1. p. 99 f.
12. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 203 ff.
13. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Ernst-August-Platz 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 105 f.
14. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Postal system. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 506 f.
15. ^ Lorenz Knieriem, Christoph Schmidt: Hanover. A city changes its face. Sutton, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-95400-262-7 , p. 71. ( preview on Google books )
16. ↑ NN : Wilh. Boetticher. In: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954. Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, Hanover 1954, p. 142 f.
17. ↑ Note: Deviating from this, the website of the town of Völksen assumes that the “Bremen architect, sculptor and garden designer Bernhard Hoetger” is the direct authorship of the summer residence; compare Uwe Tippmann (Red.): Facts & Figures about Völksen ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the voelksen.de page , accessed on November 2, 2013 
18. ↑ Note: Rainer Schomann and Michael Heinrich Schormann (see literature, p. 53) probably accidentally wrote “Dietrichshof”.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the documentation at Commons (see under the section Web Links )