Leibnizufer
The Leibnizufer is in Hannover parallel to the line extending main road. It forms the border between the Mitte district with the old town and Calenberger Neustadt . It is named after the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who lived in Hanover for a long time .
course
The course of the road extends in a north-west-south-east direction between Goethestrasse and Friederikenplatz on the west bank of the Leine. On the opposite eastern bank of the Leine is the Hohe Ufer . The Leibnizufer is part of the so-called Cityring, which surrounds the Mitte district and in this area separates it from the Calenberger Neustadt . The road is directly connected to the Westschnellweg via Königsworther Platz and the Bremer Damm feeder .
history
The street Leibnizufer was already planned by the Hanoverian city planner Karl Elkart at the time of National Socialism from 1938 in order to remove long-distance traffic from the city center. At that time, today's area of the street was closely related to the half-timbered houses of Calenberger Neustadt. There was also a built-up island there that formed the line with a line arm. It was a wicked red light district , in which the serial killer Fritz Haarmann also lived at times . The air raids on Hanover in World War II caused great damage to the old buildings. After the war the arm of the line was filled in and the ruins leveled. The street built on it was planned by city planner Rudolf Hillebrecht and realized in 1952. A dominant building on the street is the former headquarters of Preussag AG from 1953. The remains of the old course of the Leine with the fortification wall with supporting stones opposite the Leineschloss , the remains of the former buildings and the Duve Fountain are listed .
Art in public space
The “ Nanas ”, works of art by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle in the form of larger-than-life, colorful female figures, are located on the banks of the Leibniz . The Leibnizufer is part of the Hanover Sculpture Mile . The sculpture Umschauende from 1956, created by the sculptor Kurt Lehmann , stands on the street . The Mike Gehrke promenade runs parallel to the Leibnizufer on the Leine .
Leibnizufer, on the right the Nanas
Old town flea market on Leibnizufer der Leine , opposite Hohes Ufer
Duve fountain on the median of the Leibnizufer
Plastic looking around by Kurt Lehmann from 1956 on Leibnizufer
Former Preussag administration building on Leibnizufer
literature
- Rudolf Hillebrecht : The “Leibnizufer” - a new main street in the state capital. In: Yearbook of the Technical University of Hanover , 1952, pp. 59–63; Preview over google books
- Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 ; Preview over google books
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Hanover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , passim , especially p. 166
- Helmut Knocke : Leibnizufer. 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. 394.
- Joachim Ganzert , Gregor Janbätze: Hanover's “crazy” center. Principles and specifics about urban building culture (= contributions to architecture and cultural history , vol. 12), Berlin: Jovis, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-426-3 and ISBN 3-86859-426-4 ; Table of contents as a PDF document
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Lindau : Planning and building in the fifties in Hanover . Schlütersche, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-530-9 , pp. 15, 21 and others; Preview over google books
- ↑ Helmut Knocke : Leibnizufer. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 394
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 18.3 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 47.5" E