Kulturwerkstadt
The Kulturwerkstadt in Burgdorf in the Hanover region is an urban cultural center . It is located at Poststrasse 2 on the corner of Luisenstrasse in a former synagogue built at the beginning of the 19th century and now a listed building .
history
The two-storey, flush timbered half-timbered house under a hipped roof with its gable front facing Poststrasse was designed as a synagogue during the so-called " French era " in 1811 and was then used as such by the local Jewish community . The entrance front of the rear, hall-like part of the building is spanned by an antiquing triangular gable, which should certainly not point to traditional building ideas, but rather to the architectural significance of the sacred building. This character was originally emphasized by the slim, arched windows that covered the side façades in the rear part of the house and were reminiscent of the church windows of their time. They were later replaced by modern shop windows.
A classroom for the children of the Jews was also set up under the roof of the synagogue . After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, the Burgdorf synagogue survived the arson attacks that were carried out during the November pogroms in 1938 as one of the few in the entire German Reich, "because the Christian neighborhood was not responsible for the fire spreading ."
According to an information board attached to the building of today's “Kultur Werk Stadt”, the Jewish community was forced to sell the building to the city of Burgdorf in 1939, when the Second World War began . From 1941 the house served as the office of the Hitler Youth . From 1944 to 1959, the house was used by the Burgdorf public library, before it became private property in 1961.
In 2008 the former synagogue was converted into a place of encounter and culture. With the installation of an information board on the half-timbered building, the city of Burgdorf commemorated its former fellow citizens who became victims of the Holocaust .
description
In 2012 and 2013 the KulturWerkStadt was used for the exhibition Jochen Mellin: Photographer - Journalist - Mensch , after the Transport and Beautification Association (VVV) had previously viewed around 80,000 pictures of the deceased Burgdorf resident and photojournalist Jochen Mellin , which later became part of the larger estate in the image archive of the Hanover region .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Burkhard Wolters: “A declaration of love to Burgdorf”: Exhibition in the KulturWerkStadt pays tribute to Jochen Mellin's reporter life on the Altkreis Nachrichten / Nachrichten für Burgdorf, Lehrte and Sehnde website on December 16, 2012, last accessed on June 29, 2017
- ↑ a b c d Carolin Krumm (arr.) Et al. (Red.): Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Lower Saxony , Vol. 13.2: Region Hannover. Northern and eastern part with the cities of Burgdorf, Garbsen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Neustadt a. Rbge., Sehnde, Wunstorf and the communities of Burgwedel, Isernhagen, Uetze and Wedemark (= publications of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation ), ed. by Christiane Segers-Glocke , Hameln: Niemeyer, 2005, ISBN 3-8271-8255-7 , pp. 102f., 144f., 576f.
- ↑ a b Compare the information on the information board on the building
- ↑ Jens Kamm: "Jochen Mellin: Photographer - Journalist - Human" / New exhibition commemorates the Burgdorf journalist on the website of the weekly newspaper Marktspiegel of December 6, 2012, last accessed on June 29, 2017
- ↑ Frauke Bittner: About the person: Jochen Mellin , press release No. 288b / 2017 of the Hanover region of June 27, 2017
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 46.4 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 31.2 ″ E