Headquarters (Hanau)

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Former headquarters building on Schlossplatz.
The headquarters in the model of the old town by Günther Jacob.

The commandant's office in Hanau was a historic building on Schlossplatz opposite the Hanau City Palace . The building was destroyed in the Second World War, the remains later removed.

building

In written sources, the building is usually referred to as "the commandant's office " or "the governor's dwelling". The address was Erbsengasse 1 , previously also Schloßgasse 9 (today at the corner of Graf-Philipp-Ludwig-Strasse and Schlossplatz). The two-story corner building with a half-timbered upper storey and a striking bay window had a small courtyard, stables, outbuildings and a garden. Due to the architecture and the central location at the city palace, it was a popular postcard motif in Hanau.

In the basement of the main building there was a fountain, of which a photo from 1942 has survived. On a photo from 1954, this fountain can still be seen in the middle of rubble. In the corner building at Erbsengasse / Münzgasse , two spoilers from the building were walled up.

history

Two inscriptions on the inside and outside of the building suggest that it was built between 1557 (inside) and 1570. In 1750, half of this building was owned by the manor, the other half belonged to the Privy Councilor of Edelsheim . In 1773 the tax value was set at 3,500  florins . At this time, the commandant's office was again entirely owned by the landgrave and mostly served as the apartment of the respective city and fortress commanders , as the seat of the war commissariat or the war governorate .

During the Napoleonic era, the building and Philippsruhe Palace were donated to Princess Pauline Borghese , Napoleon Bonaparte's second sister . It then went to the state of Hesse and was used again as the city commandant's apartment. In 1870 it fell to the Prussian military treasury (garrison administration), who used it in a similar context. However, apartments have also been rented since then, up to a high of four tenants in 1938.

The state forest and district treasury has been located in the building since 1930 . The headquarters was completely destroyed in the air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945 and was never rebuilt. Simple school buildings were built in their place, some of which were used by the Schlossplatz School and the Business School .

literature

  • 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , p. 264f. No. 278-280, 283/84.
  • Heinrich Bott : The old town of Hanau. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Ed .: Hanau History Association. Hanau 1953, p. 140 and plate 31.
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Walk through the old Hanau. With photographs by Franz Stoedtner. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, ISBN 3-8313-1498-5 , p. 14.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Old postcards from Hanau on the pages of the Hanau History Association .
  2. ↑ 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main, ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, No. 283/84, Fig. 174/75.
  3. ↑ a b Heinrich Bott: The old town of Hanau. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Ed .: Hanau History Association. Hanau 1953, p. 140.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '15.3 "  N , 8 ° 55' 3.6"  E