Glückauf skyscraper
The Glückauf skyscraper in Hanover was completed in 1930 and, in terms of urban development, was a highlight during the expansion of residential construction in the south of the city. The landmarked high-rise building is located at Geibelplatz 5 in the Südstadt district .
prehistory
The construction of the Glückauf skyscraper was preceded in 1889 by a competition for the development planning of the Südstadt, through which the Geibelplatz was determined as the future square and the eastern end of Geibelstrasse . As early as the 1890s, a development plan was drawn up with a street grid for the southern part of the city for the areas Geibelstrasse and Geibelplatz, Tiestestrasse and Karl-Peters-Platz (laid out in 1916, renamed Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz since 1991 ) and Stresemannstrasse .
Nevertheless, as in other large cities, there was still a considerable housing shortage in Hanover after the First World War and at the beginning of the 1920s. At the time, the area north of Karl-Peters-Platz was probably built on by isolated garden cossacks , but not yet built on with “modern” (rental) living space.
The urgently needed housing construction was initially limited because - not least during the German hyperinflation - there were overall financing difficulties. Between 1920 and 1925, only around 500 to 1,000 new apartments were built annually in the entire city of Hanover. Only with other financing options from 1926, for example by raising funds on the free money market, could new residential construction be increased significantly. Since then, it has been carried out exclusively either by private builders or cooperatives .
In the years from 1926 onwards, the creation of living space increased to around 3,500 units. It was a relief that the city of Hanover owned large, contiguous properties in several parts of the city, which enabled the city's building authorities to draw up suitable development plans relatively quickly.
Especially in the southern part of the city, a development plan was created from the mid-1920s under the direction of the city building officer Karl Elkart , which was based on the road grid of the 1890s, but now the larger area between Karl-Peters-Platz, the railway line , Eilenriede and Hildesheimer Straße included.
And so the Glückauf skyscraper was built by a private client on the almost square Geibelplatz, which was laid out in 1919 as the eastern end of the straight Geibelstrasse in 1930.
Building description
In 1930, in the first year of the global economic crisis , the Glückauf skyscraper was built by the architect A. Wilhelm Ziegeler for the coal merchant C. Lichtenberg and the "Bergmannsverein Glückauf". The construction company responsible was Friedrich Mehmel AG .
The nine-storey brick building sets a special accent on Geibelplatz with its predominantly four-storey construction. The facade with its five axes stressed with a central, six-story bay in a triangular shape and an upstream ogival - arcade especially the symmetry of the building.
The building was originally provided with 12-surface lattice windows; through the installation of new, asymmetrically divided two-surface windows, “the important detailed structure was severely disrupted”.
The central axis of the high-rise is emphasized on the one hand by a life-size sculpture of a miner and by a " monumental keystone" with the mining symbol mallet and iron . In front of the step to the entrance below the arcade, the word “Glückauf” is laid out in mosaic paving , while one of the two inscription panels made of terracotta shows the words Glückauf as a round end of a wreath of oak leaves.
literature
- Eva Benz-Rababah : Geibelplatz. 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 , pp. 207f.
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Geibelplatz 5. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 115
- Wolfgang Neß : Housing complexes from the twenties / thirties , as well as the Geibelstrasse / Tiestestrasse area. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 128ff .; as well as Südstadt , in the Addendum List of Architectural Monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1983 / City of Hanover , p. 7f.
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References and comments
- ↑ a b c d Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Geibelplatz 5 (see literature)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wolfgang Neß: Housing complexes of the twenties / thirties ... (see literature)
- ↑ a b Eva Benz-Rababah: Geibelplatz (see literature)
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 39
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Garden Cossacks. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 203
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Geibelplatz. In: The street names of the state capital ... , p. 89
- ↑ Note: In the Hanover City Lexicon , the architect is referred to as " A. W. Ziegler ".
- ↑ Note: In the monument topography ... (see literature) the architect is called "Ziegler" in a different way.
- ↑ see this photo with the second inscription plaque under the arcade corridor
- ↑ see this photo with mallet and iron
- ↑ see this photo of the terracotta plate with the name of the client “C. Lichtenberg "
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 45.4 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 47.6" E