Department store at the kitchen garden

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The facade of the Kaufhaus am Küchengarten building complex

The so-called Kaufhaus am Küchengarten in Hanover is a listed ensemble from the second half of the 1920s . The location of the complex in the Linden-Nord district of Hanover can be found at the addresses Fössestrasse 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 as well as Limmerstrasse 3, 3a and 5 .

There was also a clinker brick building at the neighboring address Limmerstrasse 1 with the inscription "Kaufhaus am Küchengarten", which can still be seen in photos from the 1950s.

History and description

Around 1900: The coal storage area of ​​the Hermann Heinrich Stephanus family on Fössestrasse in place of the later department store at the kitchen garden;
on the left the kitchen garden pavilion
Retail stores on Limmerstrasse (2012)
Limmerstrasse 3a seen from the courtyard side

At the time of the Weimar Republic the merchant Karl Homann intended as a builder , the construction of a large department store complex with apartments on the upper floors. The Hanover-based architect Friedrich Hartjenstein provided him with the plans . In the run-up to the global economic crisis and due to a lack of liquidity , the construction project turned out to be more reduced than initially planned.

A four-story clinker brick building was built up to 1927 to complete the trapezoidal area between Selma-, Limmer- and Fössestrasse , which filled the urban vacuum of the Am Küchengarten square and was well integrated into the existing block perimeter development. Instead of a large department store complex , there were now numerous rather smaller retail stores on the ground floor. At the same time, the complex built for both residential and commercial use made reference to the municipal baths and the advanced development in the north-east from the late 19th century.

The fronts at Fössestrasse 8–12 and Limmerstrasse 3–5, originally equipped with lattice windows, were rather flat and were only structured by differentiated horizontal lines , with a jump on Limmerstrasse following the older alignment line . In contrast, the plasticity increases towards the corners of the building, including keel-shaped bay windows , box-shaped roof houses and a richer design, the almost symmetrical section on the square with Fössestrasse 4–6 as the main facade : here there are five compartments with triple windows that are barely Step forward over the cornice . This includes figural relief panels with a rectangular design , which offset the horizontal emphasis on the cranked cornices . Instead, cubist decorative panels on the three central fields below the roof houses reinforce the vertical in the parapet fields . The full richness of this comparatively delicate facade, which is now partially covered by buildings, is only revealed in the vicinity. The reliefs are possibly a creation of the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler .

The standard clock, also erected around 1927, based on a design by Karl Elkart, is part of the old furniture of the square at the kitchen garden .

Facade decoration

literature

Web links

Commons : Fössestraße 4–12 and Limmerstraße 3–5  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Compare the table of contents in Hermann Boockhoff, Jürgen Knotz (edit.): Kaufhaus am Küchengarten , with a floor plan, in this: Architecture in Hanover since 1900 , Ed .: Chamber of Architects Lower Saxony supervised by Ingrid Schumann, Friedrich Lindau and Winfried Neumann, Callwey-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7667-0599-7 , number B 6
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Building on Küchengartenplatz (see literature)
  3. ^ Anke Weisbrich: Small anniversary publication / For Limmerstrasse 3–5 / 1930–2005 on the hallolinden.de site
  4. ^ Andreas-Andrew Bornemann: Güterbahnhof-kitchen garden / kitchen garden place. In: www.postkarten-archiv.de. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 16.5 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 45.3"  E