Courier House (Hanover)

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The courier house at Georgstrasse 52 ;
behind plane trees with no leaves in spring 2013

The Kurierhaus in Hanover is the former press and publishing house of the newspaper Hannoverscher Kurier , built in the 1920s . Georgstraße 52 in the Mitte district is the location of today's listed office and commercial building .

History and description

The building erected at the time of the Weimar Republic in 1927 by the architects Gebrüder Siebrecht as a publishing and printing house "[...] planned for the Hannoversche Kurier under the publisher and deputy chairman of the German People's Party Walther Jänecke ", possibly in a competition Situation for the Anzeiger high-rise building that was built around the same time .

A six-storey steel frame building now rose on a plot of land reaching deep into the old town and over the former moat as part of the earlier city ​​fortifications of Hanover , the inner courtyard of which was to serve as a machine room for the newspaper publisher. The facade between the neighboring buildings, sophisticated commercial buildings on the “Prunkstrasse Hanover”, including the - older - Bankhaus Basse , clearly stood out for being “a building of modern architecture corresponding to the new construction task ”.

After the bankruptcy of the publishing company Dr. Walther Jänecke KG in the wake of media concentration of Hugenberg Group was the courier house after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the property of the leg Dorff's asset management over; the Hannoversche Kurier continued to appear.

In 1934, the Kurierhaus became the headquarters of the Lower Saxony daily newspaper .

After the building survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II , it was used as a publishing house for the Hanover press from 1946 after approval by the British military commanders .

On the initiative of the newly founded also in 1946 the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), which was in the following year in 1947 on the ground floor popular bookstore set up, temporarily under the name Leibniz - bookshop was renamed .

In 1957 the Hannoversche Presse moved to the new building of the - today's - ver.di-Höfe on the Goseriede , in the same year the bookstore located on the ground floor of the Kurierhaus also temporarily gave up its location on Georgstraße. Since then the building has served as an office and commercial building.

From 1964 the folk bookstore moved back to its former location in the Kurierhaus. It was taken over in 1987 by Otto Stender , who then continued the company as the Georgsbuchhandlung .

In the meantime, from 1974 onwards, the Kurierhaus was the venue for the cinema Gloria-Center , which ran three cinemas here under the director of the film salesman Robert Billerbeck .

Building description

Travertine slabs and abstract building sculptures by Ludwig Vierthaler (and Paul Brasack ?), Above them horizontal structure through reddish plaster

Right from the start, the building stood out from the surrounding buildings mainly due to its strong horizontal structure. Above the travertine base that extends to the first floor, ribbon windows protrude from the facade facing the street, composed of tall rectangular windows that protrude slightly over an originally reddish-brown plaster surface on the four upper floors. The window frames harmonized with the color of the plaster thanks to their originally red paint. Only the central axis was geometrically emphasized by protruding, upright rectangular lights that framed the entrance, as well as by the lettering “Kurierhaus” and the tower top . In the middle of the roof, a jagged frame protrudes with the words " Hannoverscher Anzeiger ".

The abstract building sculpture was created by the sculptor Ludwig Vierthaler , possibly together with Paul Brasack .

Inside the building, the stairs and the remains of the former office decoration on the ground floor have been preserved.

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See also

Web links

Commons : Kurierhaus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the monument topography Federal Republic of Germany (sd) names the year of construction 1918
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the Hanover plant names . Art and culture lexicon only to the architect Karl Siebrecht

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Helmut Knocke : Kurierhaus. 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. 379, as well as a picture of the building on a newspaper supplement printed in the early 1930s (p. 378)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Georgstrasse. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1, (Bd.) 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 68f .; as well as middle , in the addendum list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6f.
  3. ↑ a b c Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (eds.), Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Georgstrasse 52. In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon . Handbook and city guide. 4th, updated and expanded edition. zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 122.
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Bassebank. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 51
  5. ↑ a b Dirk Böttcher , Hugo Thielen: Jänecke - Gebr. J. Printing and publishing house. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 321f.
  6. ↑ a b c Hugo Thielen: Georgsbuchhandlung. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 214
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke: ADGB trade union building. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 223

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 17.8 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 26.5"  E