Military training forge (Hanover)

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The military apprenticeship forge in Hanover, on the left the directorate , in the background on the right the Dachenhausenstrasse
postcard 143 by Ludwig Hemmer

The Royal Military Training Forge was a training facility in Hanover established around 1900 for blacksmiths with skills for the special needs of the military . The formerly listed building at the address Humboldtstrasse 3 ( Calenberger Neustadt ) was demolished at the end of the 20th century in favor of the new construction of the Calenberger Esplanade .

history

prehistory

City map Hanover with military school and blacksmith shop on the westernmost Ravelin
city ​​map from 1834, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

On the Ravelin at the Calenberger Tor , the westernmost defensive structure of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover , which was completed by 1657 and the then independent Calenberger Neustadt , there were various buildings of the "Directorate of Army Materials" and the military academy . After the Seven Years' War which began from 1767 gradually softening the defenses that, but layout of ravelins to Glocksee toward remained despite the demolition initially retained in its with a moat surrounding triangular shape. The area then served as an artillery yard , on which two military schools had been located since 1782 and 1784 , the artillery and engineering school , and later also a forge.

After the Battle of Langensalza in the German War and the end of the Kingdom of Hanover , the buildings on the artillery yard were also demolished in 1866 . But only after the incorporation of the Glocksee in 1869 did the last remnants of the former city ​​moat "around" Hanover disappear : The moat was filled in, and from 1870 onwards, the Humboldstrasse and Goethestrasse streets in the direction of Goetheplatz were built at the same time .

From 1900

When the Royal Military Training Forge was finally established on Humboldtstrasse around 1900 as the successor to the former blacksmith's shop on the Ravelin, the addition “royal” no longer referred to King George V of Hanover, but to the rule of the Kingdom of Prussia . The Lehrschmiede on Humboldstrasse became part of an ever expanding military complex: A belt of military facilities ran from the early facilities around Waterlooplatz and in front of the Leineschloss through the “capital and residence” of the Prussian province of Hanover ; on the military apparel Commission and the Military Hospital in Adolfstraße about the teaching wrought in the Humboldt Street and at the local corner Calenberger road previously built commissariat , continue on the 1896 Garrison Church at Goetheplatz and up to the 1866 relocated to Hanover Cavalry School in Marstall Am Hohen Ufer , the artillery barracks at the Steintor and the later facilities in Vahrenwald .

At least the administration building of the military training forge on Humboldtstrasse survived the air raids on Hanover in World War II . In the 1970s the building was listed as a historical monument. However, it was demolished in favor of the Calenberg Esplanade building complex built between 1996 and 1998 . The former military clothing commission , later the auxiliary hospital and today's German staff academy, has been preserved in its axis of symmetry . The naming of the Calenberger Esplanade refers to the Esplanade , which was the open area that was formerly used as a field of fire and also served as a parade and weapon area.

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Military Academy and General Staff Academy . In: City of Hanover. The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1, monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover, the art monuments of the province of Hanover vol. 1, no.2, part 1, Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes bookstore, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979 , ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) The Art Monuments of the Province of Hanover , ed. by the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, p. 392.
  • Ilse-Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The northwest suburb of Glocksee. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 1, [Bd.] 10.1, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 94f., As well as Calenberger Neustadt , in the appendix directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6, in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ...

Web links

Commons : Militärlehrschmiede (Hannover)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ilse-Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The northwestern suburb of Glocksee ...
  2. ↑ a b Information analogous to this postcard
  3. ↑ a b c d Achim Brandau: Calenberger Esplanade ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Der Blaue Faden , website of Calenberger-Neustadt.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / calenberger-neustadt.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e Arnold Nöldeke: Military Academy and General Staff Academy ...
  5. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke : City fortifications. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 585
  6. ↑ a b c city ​​map 1834
  7. ↑ Georg Ruppelt (Ed.): From the book collection to the library. Regimental libraries in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Journal for Libraries and Bibliography , special volumes, special volume 93, Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-465-03580-0 , especially p. 49, limited preview in the Google book search.
  8. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : German War 1866. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 130.
  9. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Goethestrasse and Goetheplatz and Humboldtstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , pp. 94, 122
  10. ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: Capital (function). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 274
  11. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Waterlooplatz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover
  12. ^ Helmut Knocke: Military Clothing Commission. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 443
  13. ^ Rainer Kasties (MA): Military Hospital Hanover. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 443
  14. ↑ City map 1888 with the “Kgl. Intendant. ”On Calenberger Strasse
  15. ^ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Garrison Church , in: Hannover Chronik
  16. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Cavalry School. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 343
  17. ↑ Ilse-Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Adolfstrasse and the adjacent area. In: Monument topography ... , p. 94

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 9.3 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 24.3"  E