Lion bastion on the Maschsee

Lions - sculptures by the sculptor Arno Breker

The Lion Bastion on the Maschsee in Hanover is a viewing platform built in the 1930s on the eastern shore promenade of the lake and is also used as an event location , for example for concerts , parties or for restoration during the Maschsee Festival . The facility is located on Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer in Hanover's Südstadt district near Waldhausen .

History and description

The Lion Bastion was laid out during the Nazi era in 1934 in connection with the construction of the Maschsee. The viewing platform was kept in the style of a bastion . The structure forms the end point of the quay wall running from the north bank of the Maschsee .

Originally, various crocodile figures by the sculptor Peter Schumacher were to be installed here. However, they were later set up in the garden at Lindemannallee 19 .

Instead of the crocodiles, two standing lions created by the sculptor Arno Breker were placed on the bastion in 1938, which then gave the building its name. The Brunswick lion provided the model for these sculptures . The two namesake of the Lion Bastion may seem threatening, but today they only guard an almost empty square.

The Lion Bastion is one of the scenes during the annual Maschsee Festival. Until 2017, the organizer Hannover Concerts was the operator of the events at the Löwenbastion, before event it AG gave the concert and party location a different orientation.

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  Stairs and fencing of the viewing platform in winter

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  One of the two lions - sculptures by the sculptor Arno Breker

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Südstadt-Bult

Web links

Commons : Löwenbastion am Maschsee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Lion bastion on the hannover.de site
• Maschseefest: The Lion's Bastion through the ages , photo gallery
• loewenbastion.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Roger Heimann: Symbols: (22) Löwenbastion , in ders .: 11 tours through Hanover , Derroger, Hanover 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047106-3 , [without page numbers]
2. ↑ ^{a b} uj / no: From the city / Maschseefest / What do you think of the new lion bastion? , Article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from August 18, 2017, last accessed on July 31, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Maschsee , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 178ff .; here: p. 170f.
4. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Rudolf-von-Bennigsen-Ufer , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 212

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 52.5 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 3 ″  E