Johannishof (Hanover)

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Johannishof (January 2019)

The Johannishof in Hanover is a public space in the center of the Lower Saxony state capital between Osterstraße and Heiligerstraße . In the 1970s in what is now the Mitte district, newly laid out as an inner courtyard between department stores, the documented history of the place goes back around half a millennium.

history

A courtyard was mentioned for the first time in the Hanoverian abandonment book of 1428 in place of the later Johannishof, but it was not until the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period that the citizen Brand Schmerjohann had around 20 small houses built on this site around 1520, which were called Schmerjohann's courtyard were given the name of the builder in 1548 , "[...] who should not have been a friend of great cleanliness ". Adjacent to Schmerjohanns Hof was the Rösehof , already mentioned in 1488 , which gave its name to another street in this part of Hanover's district .

At the time of the Electorate of Hanover and around the year 1770, the naming of the court changed as Saint - John -Hof and made reference to a Christian saint . The first address book of the city of Hanover, under the title Hannöversches Adreß-Buch, mentions the year 1798 under the address “St. Joh. Hof ”for example the master carpenter Holecamp and the carpenter Homeyer as residents.

Around a century later, the place was renamed Johannshof within the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover during the beginning of industrialization and in 1861 . Around the same time, the architect and university professor Ludwig Debo wrote his report to the Royal Ministry of the Interior on charitable washing and bathing establishments , in which he - together with the official assessor Carl Grote - among other things on the missing sanitary facilities for the working class families in the two “[. ..] Packhofstraßen as well as [... the] Röse- und Johannishof ”.

1927: The Sternheim & Emanuel building complex , seen from Osterstrasse and Große Packhofstrasse , encompassed what was then Johannshof

In the early days of the German Empire , the Sternheim & Emanuel department store, operated by Jewish merchants, developed on two sides of the Johannshof from 1886 and was accessible from Osterstraße, Große Packhofstraße, Heiligerstraße and Johannishof.

In the year the National Socialists seized power , the Johannshof was completely demolished around 1933.

It was not until 1971 that the inner courtyard between the department stores was redesigned and given its current name.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johannishof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Zimmermann : Johannishof , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 133.
  2. ^ A b Rudolph Ludwig Hoppe: History of the City of Hanover (in Gothic script ), Hanover: Verlag der Hellwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1845, p. 77; online through google books ;
    Reprint of the edition (= contributions to the history, regional and folklore of Lower Saxony and Bremen , vol. 44), Hannover-Döhren: v. Hirschheydt, 1975, ISBN 3-7777-0889-5 .
  3. ↑ Hannöversches address book to the year 1798 , p. 81, as a digitized version via the German Research Foundation
  4. ↑ Ludwig Debo, Carl Grote (ed.): Charitable washing and bathing establishments. Report to the Royal Ministry of the Interior in Hanover, submitted with special consideration of the conditions in the royal seat of Hanover , Hanover: Hahnsche Hofbuchhandlung, 1862, p. 33; Digitized via Google books
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Sternheim & Emanuel. 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. 603f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 25.8 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 11.5"  E