Garden house of the Kestner family in the Bult

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With pond and boat in the foreground: The estate of the Kestner family recorded by Georg Laves in September 1845

The Kestner family's garden house in der Bult is the title of an etching or pen drawing that the artist Georg Laves created in September 1845. The plant in the dimensions 17.4 x 24.8 cm shows the so-called " garden house ", actually a country house of the family around the Legationsrat August Kestner , that the Royal Hanoverian court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in 1828 for the family of the privy councilor Johann Christian Kestner built . Similar to the townhouses of the two families, the garden houses of the Laves and Kestner families were adjacent to each other.

In the garden house outside the city in front of the Aegidientor, in addition to Hofrat Johann Christian Kestner , Charlotte Kestner , née Buff, worked as Lotte in the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther von Goethe in world literature.

The location of the romantically idealized Kestner estate with a depicted pond on a spacious property was the area between - today - Kestnerstraße and the traffic route initially called Erste Bultstraße , later at the - then - address Lavesstraße 56 .

History and description

From the 1820s onwards, the Kestner garden house was only one of three properties owned by the Kestner family in and around Hanover: After Lotte Kestner's eldest son Georg Kestner had already brought the house at Große Aegidienstraße 11 into family ownership in 1820 , where Lotte spent the last eight years of her life , he acquired one of the most elegantly furnished houses in the city in an exclusive residential area at 11 Leinstrasse . There he housed part of his collection of more than 500 numbers of paintings with historical portraits, another part in the summer house, which he later inherited after the death of his mother.

Lotte Kestner had already encouraged her own twelve children to keep their own small gardens on the property around the spacious Kestner country house. The Kestner garden was one of the "Bultgärten" in front of the horse tower , but was not only used as an idyllic landscape garden in the summer months , but was also connected to a gardening farm with cattle, where the pig slaughter was celebrated annually with a festival.

After Lotte Kestner, her son, archivist Georg Kestner , lived in the garden house in der Bult, and later her grandson Hermann Kestner , the founder of the Kestner Museum .

The Kestner garden house was demolished in 1892.

The picture of the Kestner garden house created by Georg Laves in September 1845 was pictorially idealized during the exhibition in 2000 . Cityscapes Hanover in the Historical Museum Hannover been shown.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Alheidis von Rohr : Garden house of the Kestner family in der Bult, 1845 , in this: Picturesque-idealized. City views of Hanover from the 16th century to 2000 , exhibition catalog (= writings of the Historisches Museum Hanover , issue 17) Hanover 2000, ISBN 3-910073-18-2 , p. 90; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b c d Wilhelm Rothert : The Roman Kestner , in that: General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 , Hanover: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, 1914, pp. 274–289; v. a. the illustration on p. 276
  3. ↑ a b Jost Masson: Legend to the building plan , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ...), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 572-575; here: p. 574
  4. ^ A b Hugo Thielen : Kestner, (6) Johann Christian , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 345; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ^ A b Peter Struck : Hanover in 3 days. An entertaining cultural guide , Hanover: Schlütersche, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89993-659-9 , p. 22; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ a b Ruth Rahmeyer: Charlotte Buff-Kestner (1753-1828). A not insignificant women's life , in Hiltrud Schroeder (Ed.): Sophie & Co. Significant women of Hanover. Biographische Portraits , Fackelträger, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7716-1521-6 , pp. 57-78; here: p. 77; limited preview in Google Book search

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '22.9 "  N , 9 ° 45' 1.8"  E