Knickmeyer's Restaurant

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Carl Ferdinand Knickmeyer (1853–1927) with his wife Johanna and the five children, oil painting by Otto Rauth , 1905, Hanover Historical Museum

Knickmeyer's Restaurant , also called Restaurant Knickmeyer , was a restaurant with a wine cellar located in the center of Hanover from the late 19th century until the Second World War . The gastronomic company was a well-known meeting place and regular hangout for the later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and the poet Gottfried Benn . The location was Theaterplatz 14 , later Rathenauplatz 14 in what is now Rathenaustraße in Hanover's Mitte district .

History and description

Knickmeyer's Restaurant in Hanover, owner Joh.Kuhlmann, around 1898

There is already a photograph from around 1875 in the possession of the Hanover Historical Museum , which shows the "corner of Luisenstrasse / Rathenaustrasse" in the cityscape of Hanover. "The spacious restaurants by Knickmeyer" are then mentioned in 1880 in R. Hartmann's work on the history of Hanover, an English-language travel guide to Northern Germany by Karl Baedeker from 1886 names "Knickmeyer, Theaterst. 14 “in the category restaurants.

In the first half of the 1890s, the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp made drafts for the multi-storey restaurant with wine cellar, which was decorated with colorful wall paintings and wood paneling.

According to the Hanover address book from 1905, "Knickmeyer, Karl, D. phil." Still lived at Theaterplatz 14. In 1908, the architect Wilhelm Mackensen built a residential building for Knickmeyer at Tiedgestraße 11 , which is still partially preserved today.

The Hanoverian old gentlemen of the Weinheimer Association of Old Corps Students met regularly at Knickmeyer's from 1896, as did those of the Kösener Association of Old Corps Students , who called their meetings "spinning room". For a while there was a club room for changing meetings, which was re-established in 1928.

In 1913 the Lower Saxony Regional Association for Family Studies was founded in Knickmeyer's restaurant .

Gottfried Benn met in Knickmeyer's restaurant for a regulars' table with officers from the replacement inspection. His résumé of a long evening at the Knickmeyer: I slept miserably, not from being drunk, but from the terrible tobacco smoke that always prevails in the restaurant, severe migraines and the like. no pyramidon there. Misery.

The pub near the opera house served as a regular meeting place for the folk -minded “brown pastors” around the Protestant theologian Paul Jacobshagen , who joined the NSDAP early on , and later it was also a meeting place for German Christians .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhold Hoemann (Red.): Group Hannover , in ders .: The garden art. Journal for garden art and related fields , ed. by the German Society for Garden Art , 14th year, commissioned by the Royal University Printing House H. Stürtz AG Würzburg, 1912, p. 8; Full text in Google Book Search
  2. ↑ Joachim Dyck: The contemporary witness: Gottfried Benn 1929-1949. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0024-8 , p. 174; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Marguerite Valerie Schlüter (Ed.), Gottfried Benn : Briefe , Vol. 5: Letters to Elinor Büller. 1930–1955 , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-608-95355-8 , passim ; Preview over google books
  4. ^ Karl Baedeker : Germany in one gang. Kurzes Reisehandbuch , 3rd edition, Baedeker, Leipzig 1925, p. 148; Preview in Google Book Search
  5. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Rathenaustraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 202
  6. ↑ The Theaterplatz in Hanover was renamed Rathenauplatz in 1922. From 1933 to 1945 it was called Adolf-Hitler-Platz, then again Rathenausplatz. In 1962, the triangle square was divided: the cathets are called Rathenaustraße, the part of the square in front of the opera Opernplatz, the streets bordering the Opernplatz are called Ständehausstraße and Windmühlenstraße as an extension of the historical streets of the same name. See Friedrich Lindau : Hanover: Reconstruction and Destruction; the city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlueter, Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-87706-607-0 , p. 88
  7. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Corner of Luisenstrasse / Rathenaustrasse. Photography around 1875 , commented description of the situation in: Hanover Archive , sheet S 150
  8. ^ R. Hartmann: History of the residence city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present. Kniep, Hannover 1880, p. 841; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ^ Karl Baedeker : Northern Germany: Handbook for Travelers. Baedeker, Leipzig [a. a.] 1886, p. 123
  10. ^ Johannes Franziskus Klomp: Restaurant Knickmeyer, Hanover in the holdings of the Architecture Museum of the TU Berlin
  11. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden from 1905, page 882 in the digital collections of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  12. ↑ Reinhard Glaß: Mackensen, Wilhelm in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) [undated], last accessed on October 23, 2017
  13. ^ Herbert Kater: WVAC and VACC (Spinnstube) Hannover , in: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 37, 1992, pp. 285-291; limited preview in Google Book search
  14. ↑ Kristian Teetz: Familiengeschichte / Landesverein für Genealogie has been researching for almost 100 years on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 11, 2011, last accessed on October 23, 2017
  15. ↑ Marguerite Valerie Schlüter (Ed.): Gottfried Benn. Letters Vol. 4, Letters to Tilly Wedekind 1930–1955. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 978-3-608-95320-6 , p. 75; limited preview in Google Book search
  16. ↑ Detlef Schmiechen-Ackermann : Cooperation and demarcation. Bourgeois groups, Protestant parishes and the Catholic social milieu in the confrontation with National Socialism in Hanover (= Lower Saxony 1933–1945 Vol. 9), Hahn, Hanover 1999, ISBN 978-3-7752-5819-7 , p. 140; limited preview in Google Book search

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 22.7"  E