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The Kreuzklappe is a restaurant in the Kreuzkirchenviertel in the old town of Hanover that has existed since 1887 . It is located at Kreuzkirchhof 5 in a listed building diagonally across from the Kreuzkirche . The eventful history of the place goes back to the Middle Ages . Turkish specialties have been served in the restaurant since 1972 .

history

View through the (today's) “Kreuzkirchhof” to the restaurant around 1900;
Postcard number "1034" from Karl F. Wunder
The current building with a stepped gable
The cross hatch in the Kreuzstrasse / corner of Kreuzkirchhof (view towards Ballhofplatz )

In 1546 the former "Hokenamtshaus" was built on the site of the current building. The " Hoken " were shopkeepers who traded in "fat, cheese and herrings". In 1863 and 1878 the roof area and the ground floor of the building were rebuilt to meet the changing needs.

In 1887 the “Restaurant zur Kreuzklappe” opened in the building, which, along with the economic decline of the old town, enjoyed a dubious reputation, especially since the 1920s. In the Weimar Republic , the bar was a meeting place for black marketeers , stolen goods and prostitutes and it made a name for itself with frequent fights.

In the time of National Socialism , the restaurant became the well-known local fighting bar of the SA , which organized “real beating orgies” from here and, among other things, fought against the “red workers” in the old town. Between 1939 and 1941, as part of the “old town recovery” - especially in the Kreuzkirchen and Ballhof districts - the building was almost restored to its original medieval state. In 1943, during World War II , it was destroyed in the air raids on Hanover .

In the post-war period , during the reconstruction of the Kreuzkirchenviertel under city building officer Rudolf Hillebrecht , today's building was also built with a historicizing facade. Completion was in 1951. In the late 1950s an obviously criminal was here again clientele a tryst . It was not until 1972 that the notorious past of the house came to a positive end, with a new landlord and a stylish redesign of the interior. Today, due to its historical character, Kreuzstrasse is a virtually ad-free street that has recently also been discovered for television productions.

Building description

The three-story, gable-independent residential and commercial building at Kreuzkirchhof 5 was built in 1951 by the architects Gebrüder Siebrecht in clinker construction. The historicizing stepped gable optically closes off the northwest side of Kreuzstrasse . The special function of the building is reinforced by the narrow gable framing the square and emphasizing the area in front of the church. The combination with the adjoining, recessed residential development is designed as an eye - catcher , in particular towards the development of the church square from Bonehauerstraße .

literature

Web links

Commons : Kreuzklappe (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cup of the Hokenamtes from 1640 in the possession of the Historisches Museum Hannover ; German inscriptions online: The inscriptions of the German-speaking area in the Middle Ages and early modern times; Inscription catalog; City of Hanover
  2. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Hanover in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei GmbH & Co , Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , here: p. 494; on-line:
  3. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Kreuzkirche and Kreuzkirchhof. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (edit.), Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 10.1: City of Hanover, part 1. Friedrich Viehweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528- 06203-7 , p. 57 ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 23.4 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.3"  E