Hotel de Strelitz

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The Hotel de Strelitz near Hanover was a hotel built in the 17th century with a "special reputation ". Over the course of two centuries, the establishment's gastronomic focus changed from a renowned wine tavern, especially for travelers , to a “presumably” kosher cuisine that was “probably” kosher specializing in general for the needs of people of Jewish faith at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . The history of the first modern hotel in the Calenberger Neustadt is closely connected with the function of the capital of Hanover in the (today's) state of Lower Saxony . Location of the building was the Calenberger street corner New Street , which today would be Calenberger street corner Leibnizufer .

history

Around the former traffic center on Neustädter Markt , here with a view of a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Neustädter Church and the British Hotel , numerous hotel buildings were built from the middle of the 17th century, including the Hotel de Strelitz ;
Steel engraving around 1850 by Johann Poppel after a drawing by Georg Osterwald

After the middle of the Thirty Years' War of the Prince of Calenberg , Duke George of Calenberg , 1636 the city of Hanover to the seat of his new residence declared, as the first with residential buildings for this purpose the establishment of the leash castle ordered was where the old town of Hanover and the castle opposite bank of the leash the Calenberger Neustadt for the entourage of the sovereign , especially as a new location for the government authorities and as a residence for the numerous servants of the monarch and his numerous soldiers . Especially also people of other religious communities - in the Hanoverian old town were allowed during the Reformation since 1588 only Protestants their residence take - were allowed in as an independent city with its own municipal government invested Neustadt - which, however, due to the extended fortification Hanover a baroque defense space was summarized - Catholics , Huguenots and Jews soon settled there. As a result , “the best hotels and most of the purveyors to the court ” settled around the newly created Neustädter Markt , which was the traffic center for the travelers, mostly transported by carriages, until the first railway line was built . This included the to 1680 built Hotel de Strelitz , the first as the first modern inn in Calenberger Neustadt Weinschenke designed was.

After a good hundred years later, in 1798, the first address book of the city of Hanover listed the “ aubergist and wine merchant in the Strelitz- Schänke ”, namely the owner Joh. Friedr. Böttcher , the designation "Strelitz-Schenke" and "Böttchers Schenke" emerged in common parlance in the early 19th century . At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , around the middle of the 19th century, the Jewish Spanier family owned the house and "probably" ran a kosher kitchen there, which was desired by traveling and local fellow believers .

On October 11, 1842, 65 representatives of Hanoverian cultural life met at the Hotel de Strelitz, including August Hengst , Ernst von Bandel , Wilhelm Kretschmer , Carl Oesterley senior , Edmund Koken and Heinrich Marschner for the founding meeting of the Hanover Art Association (HKV). The aim of founding the association in the elegant hotel was to offer artists and art lovers opportunities for “ noble sociability ”.

Also in the mid-19th century, the royal court architect built according to plans Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves from 1845 a new "Central Station," the first station in the Kingdom and urban endpoint of the so-called "Laves-axis" and at the same time the new, dominant completion of of Laves designed Ernst-August-Stadt . As a result, the traffic center of the state capital moved away from Neustädter Markt to Ernst-August-Platz .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ludwig Hoerner, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hotel de Strelitz (see literature)
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Residenzrezess (contract). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 521
  3. ↑ SHELL city map No. 12 Hanover from 1934/1935
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 209
  5. ^ A b Klaus Mlynek: Calenberger Neustadt. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 105f.
  6. ↑ Hans Otte : Evangelical Reformed Church Community of Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 168f.
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hannoverscher Künstlerverein (HKV). In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , 4th updated and expanded edition, p. 222f.
  8. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Railway. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 153–156; here: p. 154
  9. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Ernst-August-Platz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 164f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '14.9 "  N , 9 ° 43' 49.6"  E