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The Klagesmarkt as a parking lot before the redesign, view of the red and white trade union building of the DGB Lower Saxony and the Nikolaikapelle (center in the back), 2009

The Klagesmarkt in Hanover is a paved square in the Mitte district , which was probably built in the 14th century and has since served mainly as a marketplace . From 2013 to 2017 it was built on in the south-eastern part of the Hannover City 2020+ project ; the north-western part is still used as a parking lot and weekly market .

location

The Klagesmarkt is located between Celler Strasse or Otto-Brenner Strasse and the Christ Church . On the east side, the old St. Nikolai cemetery, which has been transformed into an inner-city park, extends up to the level of the Postkamp street . On the west side is a residential and business area typical of the district with buildings from the post-war period . The trade union building of the DGB at the southern end of the square forms the urban counterpart to the Christ Church. The approximately 50 meters wide and 350 meters long area of ​​the square is bordered by streets and an avenue-like zone for pedestrians and cyclists that runs along the northeast side of the square. In the period from 2000 to 2013, Klagesmarkt was often referred to as the event location, which at that time was almost 7500 m² paved southern part of the area.

history

Market bustle around 1900;
Postcard No. 944 Karl F. Wunder

The Klagesmarkt probably originated in the 14th century than before the stone gate situated marketplace and as a place of execution . The name is derived from Saint Nicholas (Low German "Sünte Klaas", later "Sünte Klages"). The name was only given around 1845 and refers to the Nikolaikapelle south of the square : It was the church of the monastery for the elderly, the sick and lepers, which was located there in the Middle Ages . A view published in 1740 shows the Nikolai chapel and the stone gate of Hanover as well as the area in which the Klagesmarkt is located. It is contained in the book Origines Et Antiqvitates Hanoverenses… written by Mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen as a copperplate engraving by JG Schmidt, Br (unsviga) and was digitized by the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel .

After the rifle festivals, first mentioned in 1468, on the grounds of the razed Lauenrode Castle , Hanover's first rifle house was built on Klagesmarkt in 1573/74. The use of the Klagesmarkt as a shooting place only came to an end in 1827, after Laves built a new shooting house in the Ohe ; about where the HDI-Arena is today.

Later on the Klagesmarkt mainly took place in vegetable, cattle and annual markets within a scattered field corridor.

For the city community, which grew rapidly from the middle of the 19th century, the Christ Church to the north was built in 1859–1864 . At about the same time, the pharmacist's house , built by Conrad Wilhelm Hase for the pharmacist Thilo Bergmann (son of the then Hanoverian Minister of Education, Heinrich Bergmann), was built halfway up .

In 1914, Johann Weishäupl , who was soon to become one of the largest meat product manufacturers, moved his first store, which was opened on Engelbosteler Damm , to Klagesmarkt 10 .

20th century

At the beginning of the 20th century, particularly as a result of the economic hardship after the First World War , the Klagesmarkt was also the scene of major political events for the first time. To "improve conditions" the square was completely paved in 1926/27.

In preparation for the anticipated aerial warfare , an underground air raid shelter was built in 1939 with the use of forced labor .

In 1942 there was a daily wholesale market on the square in the summer months, and a horse and pig market in the stables of house no. In the 1950s, the square was no longer used for wholesale markets after the new wholesale market was opened on Tönniesberg . During the air raids on Hanover in World War II , the underground bunker remained intact, but was later made unusable and sealed by the British military administration.

The largest anti-nuclear demonstration to date and the largest demonstration in Lower Saxony to date took place at the Klagesmarkt on March 31, 1979 with around 100,000 participants. It was the final rally of the Gorleben trek with around 500 tractors that had started a week earlier in Wendland .

When the above-ground tram connection was replaced by the new tram route C-Nord and the four-lane thoroughfare was blocked for car traffic, an elongated parking area was created on Klagesmarkt in 1993 as a temporary solution. Its current shape - apart from the renovation work from 2013 in the southern area - was then given to the square in connection with the preparations for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover.

Function until 2013 and today

Entry of trade unionists and politicians on the 1st of May 2012, the "Day of Solidarity " on the litigation market; in the background the Hanover Trade Union House

As a large inner-city open space in a central location, the Klagesmarkt was a traditional location for trade union and political major events, such as Labor Day, until 2013 . In addition, the pedestrian zone to the east established itself in the 2000s as a meeting place and practice location for the local skater scene. It has also been used by longboarders since around 2009 . With the Inline Games , this location temporarily gained international relevance until a new venue was found in Berlin's Tiergarten in 2010. Adjacent to the space that can be used (since 2013 only to a very limited extent) is a restaurant with outdoor facilities in a pavilion built after 2000. The facade stones came from the Jordanian contribution to the world exhibition EXPO 2000 . The paved northern part, lined with trees and a half-height wall, is much narrower than the southern part and has a usable area of ​​around 2000 m². A traditional weekly market takes place here on Tuesdays and Saturdays . The end of the City-Ring and Christ Church is a small square on which eight benches are grouped around a bowl fountain. Despite the limited usable space since June 2013, the Klagesmarkt is still the venue or the start and end point of, for example, political demonstrations or bike and skate night rides . Major events are no longer possible here. The annual Labor Day event has been held on Trammplatz and adjacent meadows since 2014 .

  • Weekly market in the northern area of ​​the Klagesmarkt, behind it the Christ Church

  • Place with bowl well at the north end

  • Pedestrian and cyclist avenue on the east side, pavilion with restaurant on the left

Development on the eastern part, 2013 to 2017

Hanova headquarters, Klagesmarkt - Otto-Brenner-Strasse

As part of the Hannover City 2020 + project , there have been controversial considerations since 2010 to upgrade individual areas of the square with new buildings, which would make the square smaller and lose its function as an event location. The urban and landscape planning ideas competition was concluded in June 2010. The winning proposal envisages building multi-storey office and commercial buildings over the entire parking area. A repositioning of the historical gravestones in the St. Nikolai cemetery was also suggested. The oversized roundabout was dismantled in 2012 by halving the converging lanes for a simple intersection.

At the beginning of 2012, the city ​​council decided to sell and develop the building opposite the DGB trade union building . In spite of the refined drafts presented by the City Planning Officer Uwe Bodemann in March 2012, a campaign alliance Neuer Klagesmarkt was formed, consisting of (as of March 2012) Attac Hannover, Die Linke . Parliamentary group in the council of the state capital Hanover (LHH), Die Linke. District Association Region Hanover , FDP parliamentary group in the Council of the LHH, Young Liberals in Hanover and Pirate Party Regionsverband Hanover.

In the years 2013 to 2014, the underground air raid shelter under the southern part of the Klagesmarkt was demolished and the pit filled. The construction site was handed over to the municipal housing association GBH . An underground car park and several residential and commercial buildings were built there from 2014 to 2016. The topping-out ceremony was on February 2, 2016. The house on Otto-Brenner-Strasse has been the new headquarters of the Hanova group since December 6, 2016 . Since 2016, Hanova has been the new umbrella brand of GBH and the also municipal real estate company Union-Boden , which have been working together as an equal group since 2012. The 100 apartments and the daycare center were ready for occupancy in 2017.

Further buildings in the middle part

In 2019 the city of Hanover announced that 80 to 90 new rental apartments are to be built in six new buildings following the previous new buildings. According to an architectural competition initiated by the city of Hanover, which was won by three different architectural offices from Hamburg (KBNK Architects), Frankfurt ( Stefan Forster office ) am Main and Hanover (Gruppeomp), these winning offices are each to produce two houses on behalf of a Hamburg housing company from 2020 will be realized.

literature

  • E. Laage: City squares in Hanover. In: Garten + Landschaft , Ed .: German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management, Issue 69, Munich: Callwey, 1959, p. 37f.
  • Roy Marioth: How a provincial farce turned into an international tragedy. Klagesmarkt No. 21: The KPD party house , in Adelheid von Saldern et al. : Everyday life between Hindenburg and Haarmann. Another city guide through Hanover in the 20s , publisher: Geschichtswerkstatt Hannover, Hamburg: VSA-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-87975-397-0 , pp. 93-98
  • Harald Koch (photos), Franz Rudolf Zankl (texts): Places in Hanover. Past and present. A comparison of historical photographs and current recordings ... , 1st edition, publisher: Theater am Küchengarten, Hanover: TAK-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-9806454-0-1 , p. 116ff.

Web links

Commons : Klagesmarkt (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klagesmarkt ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Klagesmarkt in Origines Et Antiqvitates Hanoverenses, page 70 a
  3. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah 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. 349f.
  4. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: WEISHÄUPL, Johann. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 380; online through google books
  5. ^ No man's land: Klagesmarkt bunker. luftschutzbunker-hannover.de, accessed on August 30, 2019 (data sheet).
  6. ^ Gisela Jaschik: March 1979: Gorleben trek to Hanover. In: North German History. ndr.de, accessed on March 22, 2011 (video).
  7. ↑ website EXPOSEUM eV, accessed 23 August 2011 ( Memento of 28 January 2012 at the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Foundation stone for a new tradition in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Competition Hannover City 2020+  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hannover.de  
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h Action Alliance New Klagesmarkt: The Klagesmarkt must remain public! Action day on March 17, 2012 , leaflet from March 2012
  11. ^ Conrad von Meding: Renovation will start in May / Klagesmarkt soon without a roundabout , online on the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung website
  12. ↑ New facade for offices on Klagesmarkt in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of March 27, 2014
  13. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Hanova moves into an office building on Klagesmarkt / Photo galleries Hanover / Hanover - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Home. In: hanova. Retrieved December 8, 2016 .
  15. ^ Society for Building and Living Hannover | Topping-out ceremony at Klagesmarkt. In: www.gbh-hannover.de. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  16. ↑ New plans for Klagesmarkt development. Retrieved on July 11, 2018 (German).
  17. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hannover-Stadt edition, from August 1, 2019, s. 15th

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 46.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 43.2"  E