Lyre bench

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The Lyrabank in Gehrden in memory of the song writer Justus Wilhelm Lyra

The Lyra Bank or Lyrabank in Gehrden is a memorial in memory of the poet Justus Wilhelm Lyra (1822–1882), who set the song May has come to music.

history

Justus Wilhelm Lyra was appointed to the first parish office of the Margaret Church in Gehrden on August 31, 1877 . Until his death in late 1882 he was a pastor in Gehrden.

The Lyrabank

As a reminder of Lyra, the stone lyrabank was set up at the Waldschlösschen excursion restaurant above the “Felsenkeller”. The Waldschlößchen was an excursion restaurant that was built at the end of the 19th century on the eastern slope of Gehrdener Berg above today's city center and has been accessible by local tram from Hanover since 1898 . The eatery was closed in the 1970s. The nearby “Felsenkeller” was built into the mountainside as an ice cellar in 1855 in order to store the ice from the brewery pond for later use in the winter months.

The Lyrabank stood on the edge of the forest of the Köthnerberg , offered a view of the center of Gehrden and was repeatedly depicted on postcards . According to another representation, the bank had been in the park of the Franzburg manor since 1912 . Before 1976, the bench was moved to the Ottomar-von-Reden-Park, which was designed from the former park of the Franzburg Manor. In the 1990s, the Lyrabank had to give way during the redesign of the park and was moved to the eastern edge of the listed churchyard south of the Margaret Church .

description

Diagonal view with right side post

The details of today protected as a historic street furniture in the form of a large, from coral oolite sawn, Bench hit the "sculptor drum" from braunschweigischem dolomite after a drawing of the architect working at the time in Hannover Oskar Barnstorf . The bench shows a relief image with the portrait of Lyra and the inscription in the middle of its backrest

"To the composer of popular songs
Justus Wilhelm Lyra
Pastor in Gehrden"

The left side post of the bank bears the inscription " May has come , the trees are cutting down". On the far right you can read “ Between France and the Bohemian Forest , there grow our vines”, the title of the poem by Hoffmann von Fallersleben , which Lyra set to music.

literature

  • Dieter Mahlert, Wichard von Heyden: Justus Wilhelm Lyra . In: Heimatbund Gehrden (ed.): Yellow booklet Gehrden . tape 20 .

Web links

Commons : Lyra Bank  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerd Weiß , Walter Wulf (red.), Henner Hannig (edit.): Gehrden , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , Volume 13.1: Landkreis Hannover , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , pp. 201ff .; here: p. 205; and Gehrden , p. 302
  2. ↑ a b c Pastor Lyra. Rainer Piesch (www.gehrdener-ansichten.de), accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Waldschlößchen. Rainer Piesch (www.gehrdener-ansichten.de), accessed on September 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Note: The wooded area near the “Waldschlößchen” should have belonged to the estate of the manor.
  5. ^ The program of the Lyra celebration is in place. www.leine-on.de, April 13, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Dirk Wirausky: It's not just about Lyra ... , article on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from April 16, 2017, last accessed on September 23, 2019
  7. ↑ a b c Friedrich Rothermund: Lyra in the Kommersbuch , in Armin Mandel (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch. People and landscape around Hanover , Volume 4, Hanover: Verlag Th. Schäfer, 1986, ISBN 3-88746-144-4 , pp. 164–166
  8. ↑ Gehrden, Church, Lyrabank, war memorials in: Natural History Society to Hannover (ed.): The Deister. Nature. Human. Story . To Klampen, Springe 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-545-2 , p.  361-363 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 '46.9 "  N , 9 ° 36' 5.5"  E