Hotel Continental (Hanover)

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The Hotel Continental, corner of Georgstrasse / Karmarschstrasse,
colored postcard number 145 , anonymous photographer, around 1900

The Hotel Continental in Hanover was a 19th century hotel in the center of the city. The site of the destroyed building in 1943 on (today) Kröpcke , its forms and proportions were similar to that of modern Kröpcke Center at the George Street corner Karmarschstraße . The elegant Café Continental was on the ground floor . It was considered "[...] as a prominent venue for orchestras with ambitious swing ".

history

“The Polytechnic School in Hanover”, seen around 1850 towards the Café Kröpcke , which was built later ;
Steel engraving by Thümling after Wilhelm Kretschmer

The building had its origins in the Kingdom of Hanover and was erected between 1834 and 1837 by the architect Ernst Ebeling on Georgstrasse as the city's higher trade school . The building in the Hanoverian arched style initially had only three floors with fifteen axes. From 1847 it served as the Polytechnic School of Hanover, the forerunner of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University , until it was able to move to its current location in 1879 in the Welfenschloss, which was vacant after the annexation of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia .

Partial view from the Café Continental on the ground floor; On the top left the glass ceiling of the vestibule of the hotel, on the right the elevated concert stage with railing, piano and music stands

After the first section of Karmarschstrasse had been laid out in 1880 by Ferdinand Wallbrecht's construction company , the former higher trade school was also rebuilt: in 1881 the building received two additional floors and a new wing in the newly started Karmarschstrasse. The entire facility was designed by the architects Gustav Heine and Ferdinand Wallbrecht as a large hotel with elegance and a glass-covered vestibule .

The hotel was destroyed in 1943 by the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

In 2012, the Kröpcke-Center is approaching its earlier exterior shapes again.

In the early years of reconstruction , business people - initially intended as a temporary measure - built the two-story, so-called “ Conti-Block ” on the site of the former hotel and its adjoining areas . However, it was only canceled in 1970 as a preparatory measure for the construction of the underground stations under the Kröpcke .

1971-1975, the architects community has developed Hiltmann Piper Bollmann on the subway stations at the Kroepcke Kroepcke center with a high office tower and a casing made of sand-blasted concrete - finished parts . After the so-called “Kröpcke-Loch” at the end of the passerelle was closed , the conversion of the building, which had long been hostile to the population, began in 2009 to a shape similar to that of the earlier Hotel Continental.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hotel Continental  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hotel Continental (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Compare this postcard with current photos
  3. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Café Continental. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 104; online through google books
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Welfenschloss. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 668f.
  5. ^ Helmut Knocke: Kröpcke Center. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 372

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 18.7 ″  E