Lister tower

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View of the Lister Tower (2012)
Detail of the tower
Neon sign on the Lister Tower
Memorial plaque for Wilhelm Heese and Wilhelm Großkopf

The Lister Tower is an urban leisure home in Hanover 's Zoo district on the edge of the Eilenriede .

description

Because of its location and the name given, it is sometimes assumed that the Lister Tower is in the List district . However, since the entire northern part of the Eilenriede belongs to the Zoo district, the Lister Tower is also located in this area. Originally the Lister Tower was a guard tower of the medieval Hanoverian Landwehr (first mentioned in 1387). The old buildings - the associated forester's house and the tower - were demolished in the middle of the 19th century and replaced in 1895 by a romanticizing replica by Hermann Schaedtler . In the spring of 1933, the National Socialists operated an unofficial prison with a torture cellar in the building. Today a plaque commemorates the prisoners and victims. The building survived the Second World War unscathed and temporarily housed the University of Music, Theater and Media . Today the tower serves as a leisure home for the state capital Hanover. There is a beer garden next to him .

At the Lister tower was one of the corner points of the race track on which the Eilenriederennen was held.

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Leonhardt : 100 years of the Lister Tower. Pictures and plans of an eventful history . Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris 1998, ISBN 3-923976-23-2 .
  • Wolfgang Leonhardt: 100 years of the Lister Tower. In: Preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony . Vol. 19 (1999), pp. 88-92.
  • Ernst Bohlius, Wolfgang Leonhardt: The List: 700 years of looking around the village and town history . Books on Demand 2003, ISBN 9783833402760 , pp. 72–81 ( limited online version in the Google book search)
  • Volksgarten, Düsseldorf , Listerturm, Hanover and Flora, Cologne . Seemann, Leipzig 1896. ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Lister Tower  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 20"  E