Linden market square
The Linden market square is the center of the Hanover district of Linden-Mitte .
description
The Linden market square is about 250 m long and 50 wide, which is lined on three sides by houses. Half of the space is used as a parking lot, the other half around the night watchman's fountain is open space. Every Tuesday and Saturday morning there is a weekly market on the square , whereby on Tuesdays only half of the parking lot is used.
In addition to the Linden Town Hall, the square is lined with multi-storey residential and commercial buildings. A Spanish restaurant , cafes and shops are located on their ground floors . One of the oldest restaurants in Linden is located on the market square and was formerly called Zum Holländer , today Centrum . The logo of the restaurant can already be seen in the picture of the inauguration of the night watchman's fountain from 1896. Villa Stephanus is located on the northern side of the square .
The tram stop for tram line 9 (Fasanenkrug – Empelde) is in Falkenstrasse, which is adjacent to the market square . The buses 100/200 and 120 stop directly at the market square.
history
After Linden was granted town charter in 1885 , it had 25,570 inhabitants and 69 streets, some of which were already canalized and lit by 209 gas lamps. However, a central place was still missing where citizens could meet and gather. That is why the market square for the new town center was created in 1894 . During the construction work on the square, representative streets and residential buildings in the Wilhelminian style were created for middle-class middle class.
In September 1896 the night watchman fountain was inaugurated on the Linden market square. The fountain figure by the sculptor Hans Dammann was actually supposed to be installed on the Hanoverian wood market. There, however, a decision was made on a different model at short notice, whereupon the Linden magistrate spontaneously purchased the figure for the fountain on the Lindener Markt.
In order to establish the Linden market square as a city center and Linden as an independent city, the Linden magistrate announced an architecture competition for the new town hall , which was to be built on the Linden market square. The design was implemented by competition winner Emil Seydel from Halle an der Saale.
In 1899 the new town hall on the market square was completed and inaugurated for 495,000 gold marks . The imperial post office building was erected opposite shortly afterwards . During the Second World War , Hanover was regularly bombed by the Allies from the end of 1943 . Fortunately for Linden, nowhere near as many bombs fell there as in downtown Hanover. In the bombing, however, the Linden town hall was badly damaged. It could not be rebuilt until 1954/55. However, the post office was so badly destroyed that it was not rebuilt but replaced by a modern building in the 1960s.
In 2001, the so-called bishop's wands (street lamps) returned to the market square on the initiative of the Linden Citizens' Association.
The town hall in Linden was extensively renovated in 2012/13, the post-war part was completely gutted and given a new facade.
Hannah Arendt's birthplace
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The writer and political scientist Hannah Arendt was born in Lindener Marktplatz 2 in 1906 . When she was just under three years old, she moved to Königsberg with her family . In her honor, a plaque was placed on the house where she was born .
literature
- Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Linden market square and neighboring streets. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 122f., As well as Linden-Mitte in the appendix List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 22f.
- Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Linden market square. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 167
- Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century , in the series sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony , Volume 92, also dissertation 1979 at the University of Hanover , editions: Hildesheim: Lax, 1981, ISBN 3-7848-3492-2 , p. 441; revised New edition, Hanover: Hahn, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7752-5927-9
- Harald Koch, Franz Rudolf Zankl : Seats in Hanover [then and now] / Theater at the kitchen garden. A comparison of historical photographs and current photographs by Harald Koch and texts by Franz Rudolf Zankl , 1st edition, ed. vom Theater am Küchengarten , Hanover: TAK-Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-9806454-0-1 , p. 90ff.
- Eva Benz-Rababah : Linden market square. 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. 409f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eva Benz-Rababah: Lindener Marktplatz (see literature)
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 2 " N , 9 ° 42 ′ 52" E