Cloister walk (Hanover)

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Around 1920: The narrow cloister corridor with a view of the Begin Tower as part of the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover ;
" Artist - stone printing " by the later aryanized lithographic art and publishing establishment A. Molling & Comp. after Ernst Pasqual Jordan , from a portfolio of the Kunst-Verein Hannover

The cloister walk in Hanover is a boulevard that was created as a guard walk on the Leine as early as the Middle Ages as part of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover , which today connects Horse Street with Schloßstraße in Hanover's Mitte district. Together with the Rademacher staircase , the cloister walkway from around the Begin Tower forms the continuation of the bank promenade that was laid out in the 1950s parallel to the Hohen Ufer on the Leine . More recent city archaeological excavations on the opposite bank of the Leine confirm, among other things, the craft of leather processing by shoemakers that was practiced here centuries ago .

history

Today's promenade was originally a guard walk along the former city ​​wall as part of the defenses against attacks by robber barons .

At the end of the 16th century, the urban Gerberhof was moved from the immediate vicinity of the Old Town Hall to the Leintor in front of the Leineinsel . The new shoe yard of the shoemakers was later given the address Klosterhof 4a , the "Gerhof" the house number 4 . The old city hospital and the Soden monastery were soon moved behind the “Gährhof” . The address of Klosterhof 4 has also come down to us from the history of the family around the tanner and master tanner Hermann Theophilus Söhlmann .

After Duke Georg von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen, declared the city of Hanover to be his royal seat in the middle of the Thirty Years War and had the Leineschloss built for this purpose, the monastery complexes of the Minorite Monastery that were located there had to be demolished in the following year In 1637, both the council monastery and the later so-called von Soden monastery were rebuilt on the path on the banks of the Leine. However, this was only possible because the Calenberger Neustadt building on the other bank of the Leine was included in a joint city fortification and the city ​​wall and with it the path that had previously only been used as a guard walk became obsolete and could now be built in its place.

As early as 1639, the city ​​mint was housed in the lower rooms of the council monastery.

To the destroyed during the war Rademacherstraße on the former linen Island Little Venice , the applied parallel to the cloister reminds Rademachertreppe

However, according to the Hanover history sheets (from 1914) , the path only received its current name at the time of the Electorate of Hanover and from 1750 onwards. Around a century after the first development of the cloister corridor with buildings, the mayor Christian Ulrich Grupen had the city hospital built as the first public hospital in Hanover on the section of the street facing the Begin tower. This four-storey half - timbered house on the corner of Pferdestrasse accommodated up to 25 beds in three large and two small rooms. The hospital was used until the Kingdom of Hanover , when the new construction of the municipal hospital in Linden in 1833, the August Söhlmann leather factory built there in the same year and the first steam engines that were put into operation in both facilities almost simultaneously marked the age of industrialization began in the kingdom - even before the activities of Georg Egestorff .

In the early days of the German Empire , the two still "monasteries" said devices in 1895 moved away from the cloister to the newly built and soon council and by-Soden Monastery called Foundation in the nurses' home street in the district of Bult. The building at the then address Klostergang 3 , however, was preserved until the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War laid almost the entire area down to the foundation walls in rubble and ashes.

After the destruction caused by the war, a fundamental redesign of the banks of the Leine was planned. And again the initiatives for the new building came from the leather sector , when in 1951 a family member of the company, which was originally founded as the leather company CA Möller in the 19th century and is now the property management company, initially worked as the owner of the buildings at Schloßstraße 6 and Klostergang 1 and 2 . For this purpose, the street line of the cloister corridor was moved back a little and there “[...] a residential complex was built, the facade of which takes up and continues the curvature of the Leine on the bank of the Leineschloss”. The architect of the multi-family houses created in this way was Georg Wimmelmann .

In front of it, where the Gerberhof, the monastery courtyards and the city hospital used to be, "[...] a stepped terrace was laid out", the cloister corridor is now initially intended as a café terrace from which the view over the no longer existing buildings on the former Leine Island extends and further over the wide aisle of the Leibnizufers over to the now distant Calenberger Neustadt.

literature

  • Ludwig Hoerner : Hanover - today and 100 years ago. City history photographed , explanations on the basis of contrasted and compared photographs, Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , p. 46f.
  • Arnold Nöldeke : Ratskloster and Sodensches Kloster , in which: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1 and 2: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, pp. 668–671; Digitized via archive.org

Archival material

An archive or from the cloister there are, for example,

Web links

Commons : Klostergang  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare, for example, the official legend table on the street sign for the cloister
  2. ↑ a b c d e Klaus Mlynek : Council and von Soden monastery. 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 , p. 515.
  3. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Am Hohen Ufer In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 79f.
  4. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Klostergang , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 144
  5. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf: Hanover Regional Office: From the Rössen settlement to the baroque faience tiled stove. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , issue 2/2015, pp. 86–89; v. a. P. 87; Digitized on the academia.edu website , last accessed on July 12, 2016
  6. ^ A b Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje : How was Hanover? Or fragments from the previous state of the residence city of Hanover. Hahn, Hanover 1817, chapter “Municipal Public Buildings”, pp. 33, 70–76 and; online through google books .
  7. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Leintor. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 399.
  8. ^ R. Hartmann : History of Hanover from the earliest times to the present. With special consideration for the development of the royal seat of Hanover , Hanover: Ernst Kniep, 1886, pp. 33, 269f .; Digitized via Google books
  9. ↑ Gernot Becker: Copy of the Söhlmann family traditions / For Mr. Oeconomie-Rat Rolf Becker / January 23, 1911 as a PDF document downloadable from gebe.paperstyle.de .
  10. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Georg, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 209
  11. ↑ a b c d e f Ludwig Hoerner: Hannover - today and 100 years ago ... , Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , p. 46f.
  12. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Industrialization. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 314f .; online through google books
  13. ↑ Arnold Nöldeke: Ratskloster und Sodensches Kloster , in ders .: Die Kunstdenkmale der Stadt Hannover ..., p. 668: Digitized via archive.org
  14. ↑ Carl-Anton Payer, Thomas Payer (responsible): Chronicle on the camoeller.de page of the company formerly known as Leder-Möller ; last accessed on July 12, 2016
  15. ↑ Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. From the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 31
  16. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Hannover - today and 100 years ago ... , p. 48f.
  17. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Foreword , in ders .: Hanover - today and 100 years ago. City history photographed , explanations on the basis of contrasted and compared photographs, Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , p. 46f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 16.6 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 53.2"  E