Kingdom of Heaven (Hanover)

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Himmelreich , monumental fountain and river water art ;
Postcard number 45 from Ludwig Hemmer , around 1900

The Kingdom of Heaven (also: Am Himmelreich ) in Hanover was the name of a small square between Friederikenplatz and Friedrichswall .

history

The small tower built around 1588 as part of the old city ​​fortifications of Hanover on the Leine in front of the Kingdom of Heaven
Erich Voigt - Photo of the monumental fountain in front of the river water art, Himmelreich / Hanover, around April 1934

The Kingdom of Heaven got its name after a bastion of the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover that was located there . The square was initially on the outskirts of the city, right at the point where the main arm of the Leine ran through the fortifications between the click mill , which was built at the beginning of the 13th century and the small tower built around 1588, which is now a listed building .

View towards the Wangenheim-Palais with the house of Diederich Christian Ludwig Witting ;
Postcard 193 from Ludwig Hemmer, around 1900

After the master builder, court building officer and superior of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , Diederich Christian Ludwig Witting , had built his own house “Am Himmelreich” from 1821 to 1823, the Wangenheim Palais was built next to it in 1833, also on the east side of the square . But it was only the breakthrough of Karmarschstrasse across the centuries-old streets of Osterstrasse, Marktstrasse, Köbelingerstrasse and Leinstrasse in the years from 1880 to 1889 that released the square from its peripheral location. A representative new entrance to the city was to be built here: On the west side of the Kingdom of Heaven, the plan by the architect Hubert Stier was awarded the contract after an architectural competition in 1895, and the river water art was built here by 1898 . At the same time, an elaborate fountain system was built on the square according to plans by Karl Gundelach .

Although the air raids on Hanover in World War II caused comparatively moderate damage to the structures around the square, the river water art was canceled despite violent protests from the population. In this way, the urban development integration of the Lower Saxony state parliament , which was set up in the bombed-out Leineschloss, was to succeed.

Previously, in the course of the construction of a car-friendly city, the Friederikenplatz in front of the Kingdom of Heaven was laid out in 1955 as a traffic roundabout in the street layout of the newly created Leibnizufer and the Lavesallee coming from Waterlooplatz ; The roundabout was finally converted into a crossroads in 1966, with almost all of the remains of the historical square at Friederikenplatz.

The bowl of the former monumental fountain was reused in 1966 for a new fountain on the Klagesmarkt opposite the Christ Church .

Preserved cultural assets

New building models (brown) around the former Kingdom of Heaven as part of Hannover City 2020+

In particular, the Historical Museum on the Hohe Ufer is in possession of a number of cultural assets related to the Kingdom of Heaven . For example, the book Alt-Hannover ... (see literature), which has been sold out for a long time, contains several comparatively modest copies with thematically relevant drawings, engravings and lithographs by various artists.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Himmelreich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Eva Benz-Rababah: Kingdom of Heaven (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: WITTING, Diederich Christian Ludwig. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 392; online through google books
  3. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Click mill. In: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1, monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover, in the series Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 , P. 740
  4. ↑ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: The post-medieval city fortifications. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 63f., as well as the middle annex . In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3ff.
  5. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Karmarschstrasse. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 337
  6. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : River water art. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, pp. 184f.
  7. ^ Conrad von Meding: Friederikenplatz / Association wants to rebuild river water art , online edition of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 2, 2008
  8. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah: Friederikenplatz Mühlenplatz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 192
  9. ^ Bernhard Dörries, Helmut Plath : Alt-Hannover. The history of a city in contemporary images from 1500-1900 (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 8.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 2.3"  E