Limmerbrunnen

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The Limmer fountain in Hannover was a medicinal spring in the woods Limmer wood in the district Limmer . The water from the source was one, similar to the water in Bad Nenndorf or Bad Eilsen , to the group of "cold erdig- saline sulfur water ". Around the current dead end street Limmerbrunnen , various facilities were built from the 18th century, but in particular a bathing establishment for the " little man ". The adjacent, park-like, former north-eastern part of the otherwise deforested and built-up Limmer wood is now a protected landscape component under the name Limmer Brunnen .

history

The botanist Friedrich Ehrhart discovered the sulfur spring in 1779. In 1793, the various tributaries of the Limmerbrunnen were initially combined in a brick basin in order to build a first bathhouse there in 1794 . The operation for the "little guy" was a summer of 1795 economy adds. In connection with the Limmerbrunnen was the court medicus Gerhard Ludwig Hurlebusch , who from 1791 also headed the Hanoverian “ maternity hospital ”.

From 1800/1801 the bathing business was subordinated to the upper court building and garden department and the "fountain commissioner" Christian Friedrich Stromeyer , who after his training in England had initially settled as a court surgeon in Hanover. Under Stromeyer, an additional guest house and lodging house was built for “ distinguished guests ” in 1807, which was used in the so-called French times as an entertainment establishment and for playing roulette , “allegedly [but also] as a brothel ”. Another simpler guest house, built around 1807, was open all year round for less well-to-do bathers and offered them a dance hall and a bowling alley for entertainment .

Villa Beckedorf am Limmerbrunnen 11
Villa Goedeckemeyer from 1896 at Limmerbrunnen 14

The Limmerbrunnen flourished until the first decade of the Kingdom of Hanover . When, after Stromeyer's death in 1824, the company only made losses for a long time , the Ministry of the Interior intended to sell the plant several times. However, this was prevented by the sovereigns of the kingdom, first Ernst August , then also George V , "for social reasons".

After the German War , the Battle of Langensalza and the annexation of the Kingdom by Prussia in 1866 and finally the proclamation of the German Empire , the "Prussian State Bath" was sold in 1872, the year it was founded. The private owners changed repeatedly, the structure was changed and expanded. Thus, for example, the Villa Beckedorf that the Hanoverian court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves originally in 1823 as a summer house for the maid of Beckedorf at the Hunter Street in George Garden was built some 1,883 changes to the Limmer well translocated . Today the villa is the oldest classical building in Hanover.

At the beginning of the 20th century, up to around 14,000 baths were administered annually at the Limmerbrunnen. At that time, half of these were enriched as so-called "sulfur brine baths" with highly concentrated brine from the Egestorffhall salt works . The further development of the spa was then inhibited by the construction of the Linden branch canal , but during the Weimar Republic , at the time of National Socialism and in the young Federal Republic of Germany , people were able to take the health- promoting spa baths. In 1961 the bathing business was stopped.

Even before the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, the indoor sport championships of the British zone were held in November 1947 in the “Kurhaussaal Limmerbrunnen” .

In 2012 there was no more water leakage and the exact location of the source could only be guessed at.

Media reports (selection)

  • Andrea Tratner: History / The Limmerbrunnen. In: Neue Presse from September 17, 2009; last accessed online on June 14, 2014

literature

Web links

Commons : Limmerbrunnen (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ludwig Hoerner, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Limmer Brunnen (see literature)
  2. ↑ Compare the printed matter no. 1733/2010 statute on the protected landscape component "Limmer Brunnen" of the City Council of Hanover on the page e-government.hannover-stadt.de/ , last accessed on June 14, 2014
  3. ↑ Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart: Contributions to natural history, and the sciences related to it, especially botany, chemistry, housekeeping and agriculture, pharmacy and pharmacy. 7 volumes. Schmidt, Hanover, Osnabrück 1787, chapter "Display of some salt springs located near Hanover, and a sulfur well recently discovered there", pp. 57–67, here pp. 60–67 (digitized version ) .
  4. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : Hurlebusch, Gerhard Ludwig. 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. 181; Digitized via Google books .
  5. ^ Dirk Böttcher: Stromeyer, (1) Christian Friedrich. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 353; online through google books
  6. ↑ Juliane Kaune: When Limmer was still a medicinal bath. In: District Gazette West of January 24, 2019
  7. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Limmerbrunnen (see literature).
  8. ↑ Walter Euhus , Ludwig Schulte Huxel: cycling , in Lothar Wieser, Hubert Dwertmann, Arnd Krüger, Hans Langenfeld, Joachim Schlüchtermann, Ludwig Schulte-Huxel (ed.): Sports in Hanover. From the city's foundation to today , ed. from the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History, Hoya eV (NISH) with scientific advisory board by Arnd Krüger and Hans Langenfeld , 1st edition, Hoya: Niedersächsisches Inst. für Sportgeschichte, 1991, ISBN 3-923478-56-9 . Pp. 266-273; here: p. 271
  9. ↑ Evi Schaefer: Limmer Brunnen / The working group (AK) Stadtentwicklung Limmer wants to put up a notice board at the Limmer Brunnen. In: HalloLinden.de , last accessed on July 17, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 34 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 55.3"  E