Cadet School (Hanover)

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The Royal Hanoverian Cadet School in Waterloostraße , on the left as a Prussian war school around 1896; right in the restored remains after the Second World War

The Royal Cadet School in Hanover , also known as the Cadet School , or Cadet Institute and later War School , was a military training facility and is now part of the Hanover Police Department . The listed building is located at Waterloostraße 9 in the Hanover district of Calenberger Neustadt .

history

The building complex of the former Royal Cadet School, near Waterlooplatz , was built between 1842 and 1843. On the street side, the main building was 60 m long. The two side wings were 20 m long. In 1894 the main building was expanded to include a 25 m long teaching building. All parts of the building had a basement and were three stories above ground. The facades were in the arched style. The building complex of the former Royal Cadet School included a covered riding arena, latrines, several gun sheds, a bowling alley, a fencing and gymnastics shed and several horse stables. Up to 120 cadets could be accommodated in the cadet school. Each cadet had 52 m³ of space available. In other barracks, the soldiers only had about half of the space available. The large volume of the room was created due to the 5 m high floor, which, however, severely impaired the heating capacity of the individual rooms.

After the German War , the Kingdom of Hanover became a province of the Kingdom of Prussia as part of the Prussian annexation . In the course of this, the Royal Cadet School became a Prussian War School in 1867. From 1919 the building complex was used by the then police headquarters and the Hanover police department. Since 1903 there was a new police headquarters on a neighboring property.

Many buildings on Waterlooplatz were badly damaged in a bombing raid during the Second World War. Some of the buildings were completely demolished. The upper two floors of the cadet school were demolished so that today only the ground floor with the original entrance door on the street side is preserved. The subsequently added teaching building has been completely preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Tellkampf : Friedrich Wilhelm Ahrbeck , in ders .: The higher citizen school in Hanover described after ten years of existence by the director of the same. Helwing'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1845, pp. 4, 67, 76; Preview over google books
  2. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Cadet School , in ders .: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover , ed. from the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 391 (reprinted by Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) ( digitized parts 1 and 2 via archive.org
  3. ↑ a b Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Waterloostraße , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 92f .; as well as Calenberger Neustadt in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 5f.
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Waterloostraße 9, 11, 13 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 213f.
  5. ↑ Waterlooplatz , accessed on August 13, 2019


Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 55.9 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.1"  E