Koeritzhof

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The hall house of the Köritzhof with gate entrance and gable (2017)

The Köritzhof , also called Hof Köritz or Haus Köritz , is a multi-part, former farm in the Hanover district of Groß-Buchholz . The core substance is a hall house built in 1619 as a residential building as a two-tier house , which is considered the oldest dated farmhouse in Hanover. The listed courtyard has been falling into disrepair since the 1980s .

location

Sketch of the location of the Köritzhof based on a cadastral map from 1870

The Köritzhof is located on the outskirts of the rural center of Groß-Buchholz with historic farmhouses as well as barns and remises of former farms. In the immediate vicinity of the courtyard is the former Pinkenburg guard and customs house on the Hanoverian Landwehr . The building ensemble of the Köritzhof is part of a group of structures that have shaped the village of Groß-Buchholz, which has been incorporated into Hanover since 1907 .

Building description

For existing buildings of Köritzhofes include a free-standing hall from 1619 and a Altenteiler House in half-timbered style with a stucco cultivation. The two outbuildings probably date from the 19th century. The hall building is a two- post construction with a frame and rafter sleeper . It has architectural features typical of the time, such as a row of headbands on the gable stands. The compartments are made of wicker plastered with clay . The building has the side tubs that are typical for two-column houses as flat extensions for storing cattle . On the gable ends there are Gothic pointed arches, which are formed by close-fitting wall stands. On show gable facing the street there was formerly at the top of a Knaggenvorkragung that when a devastating tornado destroyed 1830th This can be recognized by a gable repair.

A bar above the gate entrance on the gable of the hall building bears the following house inscription :

Godt the Here keep this house also everything that is in and out of it. The hern’s blessing makes you rich without any effort. Anno 1619 the 12th Marti

  • Entrance to the hall building

  • House inscription above the gate entrance

  • Elderly house of the farm

  • Lateral extension on the old divider house

history

The rear gable of the hall house around 1910, on the right the old divider house
The same direction of view of the now overgrown rear gable of the hall building (2017)
Damage caused by plastering on the clay compartments of the old-age divider house

The farm is named after the builder named Köritz . He immigrated from Brandenburg in the 17th century and built the hall house in Groß-Buchholz. Six acres of land belonged to his farm in 1689 . According to a cadastral map from 1870, at that time the Köritzhof was owned by a farmer named Krull, who was a Brinkitzer . The farm was one of the smaller farms in Groß-Buchholz with 14 other Brinkitzerhöfe, where there were a total of 34 farms in 1870. The livelihood of the Brinkitzer from the Köritzhof was, among other things, livestock farming, in which the cattle were driven to the common land in the Roderbruch . According to legend, during the Thirty Years' War mercenaries of the general Tilly moved into their quarters in the Köritzhof when they came across the nearby Landwehr . In the 19th century, 26 acres of land belonged to the farm. Sausage and meat products were smoked in the Hallenhaus until the 20th century , as there was still an open fireplace inside.

Decay

The Köritzhof has not been used since around the mid-1980s and the building complex has been neglected. In 1989, members of the Pinkenburger Kreis carried out renovation work together with a self-help association of builders. In its red folder in 1987 and 2015, the Lower Saxony Homeland Association classified the farm with the oldest farmhouse in Hanover as endangered and pointed this out to the Lower Saxony state government . According to the Heimatbund, the house lasted almost 400 years thanks to its good construction quality; the decay is clearly visible after more than 30 years of lack of use and construction maintenance. The state government replied to the Heimatbund in the Weisse Mappe that the decisive role for a redevelopment falls to the owner and that measures can only be developed together with him.

One part of the building was still inhabited until 2013. The increasing decay has been discussed more and more publicly since 2015. The property was so overgrown by overgrown bushes and ivy, weeds and trees that only the gable was clearly visible of the hall house. The preservation of monuments demanded from the owners, an owner association with a descendant of the builder, that they comply with the preservation obligation for the monument laid down in the Lower Saxony Monument Protection Act . The owners said that according to the Monument Protection Act the economic reasonableness was not given and they received no financial support. Nevertheless, they want to keep the farm in family ownership, but have also submitted an application for demolition . An administrative court dispute arose in which the owners were sentenced to pay a fine in 2017 by the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court for refusing to provide a damage report . In 2020, a foreclosure auction was scheduled for the 908 m² property with the hall house and the adjoining studio building at a market value of 203,000 euros . The city of Hanover did not participate in the auction because of feared high renovation costs. A couple from Hanover bought the property for 455,000 euros. The renovation costs are estimated at up to 700,000 euros, in which the new owners want the city of Hanover to participate.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Köritzhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Fließ: Old farmhouses in Hanover - image documents and architectural drawings, exhibition guide of the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer , Hanover 1974, p. 14
  2. ^ Pinkenburger Kreis (Ed.): Tour through Groß-Buchholz , author Wilhelm Busse, Hanover 1989, p. 5
  3. ↑ Pinkenburger Kreis redevelops historic Köritzhof in Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 3, 1989 (pdf)
  4. ^ Red folder 1987, Preservation of two-column houses in Groß-Buchholz, State Capital Hanover , p. 29 (pdf)
  5. ↑ Rote Mappe 2015, Hannover's oldest farmhouse in danger , p. 32 (pdf)
  6. ↑ Weisse Mappe 2015, Hannover's oldest farmhouse in danger , p. 22 (pdf)
  7. ↑ a b Should the Köritz farm be demolished? in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from March 5, 2017
  8. ↑ a b Can the Köritz Hof still be saved? in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 3, 2015
  9. ↑ Printed matter No. 15-0158 / 2017 F1: Response from the administration to the request for monument protection in Groß-Buchholz, meeting of the Buchholz-Kleefeld district council on 02.02.2017, item 10.2.1. , as a pdf version
  10. ↑ Hanover's oldest farm: Köritzhof in Groß-Buchholz is foreclosed in Neue Presse on May 31, 2020
  11. ↑ Andreas Schinkel: City of Hanover rejects acquisition of the Köritzhof in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 7, 2020
  12. ↑ Foreclosure auction: The couple buys Hanover's oldest farm for almost half a million euros in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung on August 26, 2020

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 55.8 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 24.3"  E