Logenhaus Herrenstrasse

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The lodge house at Herrenstrasse 9 , which was built until 1856 , here already with an extension (left)
The temple in the Herrenstrasse lodge house

The Herrenstrasse lodge house in Hanover was a building erected in the mid-1850s for the Masonic lodges at the address Herrenstrasse 9, which existed there for almost a century.

history

Already at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , but still during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover , the three lodges of the time in Hanover, the lodge "Zum schwarzen Bär" and the lodge "Zur Ceder", used the lodge house of the lodge "Friedrich zum white horses" from 1827 in the Köbelingerstraße. When, after around three decades, the building had become too small due to the larger number of members, a building commission elected by the three lodges proposed the construction of a new lodge house in Herrenstrasse. After a plot of land located there was initially acquired for 6,400 thalers in gold, the mason and builder Christoph August Gersting built the building for a further 26,000 thalers at the then address Herrenstraße 9 between 1855 and 1856 .

When the Royal Hanoverian Court Theater was about to be completed in the city, which would then function as a residence again , the Hanoverian tinware manufacturer Franz Beckmann, who had also cast the goddess of victory Victoria for the Waterloo Column in copper, created the theater and opera venue known large chandeliers, which later than the time of the Weimar Republic in the lodge house translocated was.

The lodge house on Herrenstrasse housed the Hanover lodges until the Nazi era and until it was banned in 1935.

The building was finally destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Hanover in World War II.

See also

Literature (selection)

  • Victor Weber: Brief outline of the history of Freemasonry in the Orient from Hanover in the context of the picture decorations of the lodge house on Herrenstrasse. Hanover 1931, OCLC 247105552 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Siegfried Schildmacher : History of the lodge "Friedrich zum Weißen Pferde" from 1748 to 1848 , in ders .: 1746–2006. History of the Freemason Lodge "Friedrich zum white horse" Hanover. with the collaboration of Winfried Brinkmann, Gustav Gogowski and Edmund Woerner, ed. from the Masonic lodge "Friedrich zum white horses", self-published, Hanover 2006, pp. 13–19, especially pp. 17ff., 24 u.ö.
  2. ^ Klaus Siegner: Gersting, Christoph August (1802–1872) , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 568
  3. ^ Paul Siedentopf (main editor): E. Beckmann, Georgstraße29 , in ders .: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , with the help of Karl Friedrich Leonhardt (compilation of the image material), Jubiläums-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig 1927, P. 255

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 6.1 ″  E