Laveshaus (Hanover)
The lava house at Friedrichswall 5 in Hanover was built by the architect , town planner and civil engineer Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788–1864) 1822–1824 as his own house and lived there until the end of his life. Laves had been the court architect of the Kingdom of Hanover since 1814 and was a representative of classicism .
history
Laves designed the three-story house in the classical style for himself and his family. His wife had brought the property into the marriage as a dowry from her father. The family lived in the house on the 3rd floor. Laves rented the lower two floors, including the "Bel-Etage" on the first floor, to honorable personalities such as the French ambassador at the Hanoverian royal court, Louis-Henri de Roger de Cahuzac († February 11, 1839) or the commanders of the Hanoverians Her Majesty's Brigade, Sir Hugh Halkett .
Around 1855, Laves had a smaller, initially two-story studio house built for his son George, who was a painter, on the western property line, which was expanded to include a house on the street side from 1862–1863 and was topped up again in 1873 by the architect Justus Heinrich Jakob Molthan . In terms of style, it leaned heavily on the main house. After Laves died, the property remained in family ownership. In 1908 the city of Hanover acquired it and set up the municipal health department there.
The free-standing lava house survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II unscathed, while much around it fell to rubble. After the war, the city tourist office was housed in the building.
A long-term tenant after the war was the social democratic former resistance fighter Wilhelm Hahn junior .
In 1996 the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects acquired the house and made it their seat as well as that of the Laves Foundation . Before that, it was completely renovated taking into account the preservation of monuments .
literature
- Rüdiger RE Fock: The Kestner. A German-French-Swiss family makes history (s). Schnell Buch und Druck, Warendorf 2009, ISBN 978-3877167069 .
Web links
- Brief description at hannover.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Knocke 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. 389f.
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Hahn, (3) Wilhelm, jun. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 147; online through google books
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 44 ′ 10 ″ E