Kreuzkirchenviertel
The Kreuzkirchenviertel (unofficially mostly called Kreuzviertel ) is a 3 hectare area in the old town of Hanover . It is located in the area between Marstall, Burgstrasse , Ballhofstrasse and Bonehauerstrasse. It is named after the Kreuzkirche , which forms the center of the district.
history
The old town of Hanover was almost completely destroyed by the air raids on Hanover during World War II. At the suggestion of the then town planning officer Rudolf Hillebrecht , the plots in the old town were completely re-parceled out in order to create a residential island near the Kreuzkirche . Before the war, the Kreuzkirchenviertel was structured in very small parts: the plots had an average size of only 124 m² and were densely built with three to four-story houses, so that sometimes only space was left for narrow light shafts.
At the suggestion of the Hanover construction community , after the building authority had created preliminary designs for a new Kreuzkirchen district under the overall planning of the architect Konstanty Gutschow , the construction cooperative around the Kreuzkirche eGmbH was created in 1950 . The landowners transferred their properties and their encumbrances to the cooperative. This repaid the encumbrances and reallocated the land. Then two- to three-story rows of houses surrounded by green spaces and gardens were built. A five-story rental apartment building completes the quarter and provides noise protection. From the laying of the foundation stone in 1950, 215 one to three-room apartments with a maximum size of 65 m² were built. There are only footpaths within the district.
This creation of urban spaces, which deviated completely from the historical structure, was typical of the post-war reconstruction in Hanover. Through this urban planning, the city gained national fame. The Kreuzkirchenviertel was a prime example at the Constructa building fair in 1951, the first building exhibition in Germany.
The Kreuzklappe restaurant is located in Kreuzkirchhof 5 . There has been a restaurant under this name and at this location since 1887. The current house was built in 1951 as part of the reconstruction in the historicizing style. Turkish specialties have been served in the restaurant since 1972 .
In 1953 it was possible to celebrate again with the construction community around the Kreuzkirche : the first cornerstone was laid for 77 further apartments and 23 shops in Bonehauerstrasse .
The pedestrian path leading from the Kreuzkirche to Burgstraße was formerly called Tiefental and was named in 2004 after the Sinto boxer Johann Trollmann . The Johann-Trollmann-Weg leads to the oldest preserved half-timbered house in Hanover (1564/1566) at Burgstrasse 12 .
Trollmann was born in Wilsche in 1907 and later lived with his family in the old town of Hanover. In 1944 he was in the satellite camp Wittenberge the Neuengamme concentration camp murdered. In 2008 a stumbling block was laid for him in front of his former home .
literature
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover art and culture lexicon , manual and city guide , 3rd, rev. Edition Hannover: Schäfer 1995, pp. 142–144.
- Idyllic gardens in the Kreuzkirchenviertel: From the Golden Angle to the Tiefental . In: Discover, experience, understand Hanover's nature . Working group of the Association of German Biologists (Lower Saxony State Association). Edited by Elisabeth von Falkenhausen (among others). Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer 1998, pp. 12-13. ISBN 3-7800-5263-6
- 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 , p. 368f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Waldemar R. Röhrbein: 1949. In: Hannover Chronik here: p. 223 u.ö .; online through google books
- ↑ The miracle of Hanover . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1959, pp. 65 f . ( online ).
- ↑ Patrick Hoffmann: 13 more stumbling blocks laid. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , March 23, 2010, p. 15
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '24 " N , 9 ° 43' 58" E