Kochstrasse (Hanover)
The Cook Street is a residential street in the Hanover district Linden-Nord . It was laid out in its southern section in Nedderfeld in 1873 and named after a Hanoverian family, probably after the carter Conrad Koch (born August 15, 1831 in Linden; † September 11, 1898 there), who owned a piece of land here. Almost all of the existing old buildings on the street, including their rear buildings, are now listed as historical monuments .
history
Building history
After " closed housing " had prevailed from the end of the 1880s, the northern section of Kochstrasse (house numbers 4–18) and the plots of the adjacent Elisenstrasse (numbers 2, 4 and 6) and Ottenstrasse (1 and 3). The speculative , four-storey rental apartment building presented itself here as a closed series of respectable neo-renaissance and / or gothic plastered and clad brick buildings with a dwelling ; the side facing the street conveyed great uniformity and "solidity". At the time, this increased the “exchange value” for the builders.
The downside of the speculative rental housing construction of the early days only experienced the tenants with a view of the rear courtyards, and in particular the residents of the rear building rows: With the greatest possible utilization of the building space, closed rows of rear buildings of the same height were drawn through in simple construction parallel to the beautiful facades of the front buildings without any architectural demands. These apartments were not only lacking in built beauty, but above all in the basic requirements for a healthy life: daylight and fresh air. For example, the distance to the row of rear buildings to the west was just about four meters.
The interventions in the area redevelopment plans from the 1970s onwards brought relief to the narrow development . Contrary to the protests of some tenants about the preservation of inexpensive living space, the lack of light was carefully remedied by ingenious, offset partial demolitions in the backyards, for example between Kochstrasse and Strength Street. The deliberate non-rebuilding of two front buildings at the northeast end of the street that were destroyed in the Second World War not only resulted in improved air circulation for the entire street: the neighborhood square, which is now laid out with bright red bricks, is green on the edge - withdrawn from the street - particularly well received by children.
Others
Around 1906/1907 the theater Thalia-Theater opened on the corner of Limmerstrasse and Kochstrasse.
literature
- Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Lindener Nordstadt , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , pp. 135–140, 141 f., As well as Linden-Nord in the appendix list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 21 f
- Elke Oberheide, Erich Schulz: We from Kochstrasse / The story of a street in the working-class district of Linden in Hanover , with graphics by Christine Lauermann, ed. by the state capital Hanover, Freizeitheim Linden , self-published, 2nd edition, Hanover 1987
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 23.3 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 43.5" E
Individual evidence
- ^ Address book of the city of Hanover from 1953
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hannover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hannover , 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 145
- ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : 1906/07 , in; Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 61