Johanneshof Wettbergen

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The Johanneshof Wettbergen

The Johanneshof Wettbergen in Hannover is the oldest and in its historical substance best-preserved courtyard of the former village Wettbergen . The end of the 18th century built timber-framed house on the property at the shepherds Bach forms with the neighboring yard at Pastor-Bartels-Weg , a Grade II listed building ensemble and also serves since the early 1990s for around 20 people with various disabilities , both as a private living space for rent as well as a community housing project for a life that is as self-determined as possible . Today's address of the project, organized as a non-profit company , is the street Am Hohmannhof 10 , after this part of the street An der Kirche was renamed accordingly in 2002.

History and description of the building

Around a century after the "new building" of the neighboring Johannes-der-Täufer-Church was built in the southern part of the old village center on Vollmeierhof number 4 in 1797 for Vollmeier Cord Heinrich Hohmann (born February 16, 1763 in Ronnenberg ; † 9. August 1823 in Wettbergen) built his house. The result was a four - column house filled with bricks with a "[...] simply protruding commercial gable with rounded, slightly protruding jib beam heads and rounded filler timber ". The gable triangle was adorned with ornate struts that form the symmetrically mirrored double letter K.

Even in the mid-1980s, which showed hallway of the apartment building almost in its original form with simple headbands to the ranks of the inner stator bars, and also for Fleet oriented shear wall appeared unchanged. However, the formerly wooden two-story residential part of the building was partially replaced in solid construction .

Between a wall of natural stone and the farmyard a narrow path leads to the Shepherd and Bach to the barn of the neighboring property and documented here urban particularly well the original context of village building.

When the farm, which was no longer used at the time, threatened to decay at the end of the 1980s, the Wettberger Association of Friends for the Disabled and Non-Disabled eV came up with the idea of looking after people with disabilities on the agricultural property. Together with the Pestalozzi Foundation from Burgwedel and the Hanoverian Annastift , the association found two more partners to found Johanneshof Wettbergen gGmbH . In 1990 she bought the half-timbered house, which had been redesigned to be barrier-free over two years , in which the first people moved into their rented apartment in June 1992, in order to be as self-responsible as possible with the help of their mentally , emotionally or physically handicapped roommates as well as with the support of social workers to be able to live. For the first time in the history of the city of Hanover , Johannishof Wettbergen was a facility both as a landlord and as a social service provider .

The historic half-timbered house was redesigned for the first time in 2010 to make improvements to fire protection . In the following year, the remise of the former farm was converted into two more apartments.

The anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the Johanneshof was celebrated in 2012 with an open day and a festive service with around 400 visitors on the premises, followed by a separate party for 85 invited friends and supporters of the facility. The outdoor area in particular is a meeting point for up to 40 people, especially in summer, for a joint barbecue in an open atmosphere.

See also

Media coverage (selection)

  • Christian Link: Wettbergen / Johanneshof celebrates its anniversary / For 20 years the Johanneshof in Wettbergen has offered people with disabilities the opportunity to live together independently. The anniversary was celebrated with a big party. On the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 9, 2012, updated on August 12, 2016; on-line

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  1. ↑ a b c Cord von Frieling (responsible): Johanneshof Wettbergen , last accessed on September 26, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Neß: Wettbergen , in: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 159; as well as Wettbergen in the addendum: List of architectural monuments acc. Section 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 26
  3. ↑ a b c d e Christian Link: Wettbergen / Johanneshof celebrates its anniversary / For 20 years, the Johanneshof in Wettbergen has offered people with disabilities the opportunity to live together independently. The anniversary was celebrated with a big party. On the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 9, 2012, updated on August 12, 2016; last accessed online on September 26, 2016
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names - changes since 2001 , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 57/58 (undated, 2004?), Pp. 277–284; here: p. 277

Coordinates: 52 ° 19 ′ 40.3 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 23.1"  E