New house (building in Hanover)

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The arcades of the New House in front of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
Similar photographer's point of view around 1898: The war memorial in the foreground , further back the New House,
postcard number "527" by Karl F. Wunder

The New House was an elegant concert café built in 1894 by the architect Paul Rowald in the area of ​​the front Eilenriede in Hanover . It was canceled in 1970 in favor of the new building for the music college . The entrance arcades with the pavilion of the former café were then set up again on Emmichplatz and are now a listed building . In 2019, Emmichplatz was renamed "Neues Haus".

history

Plague hospital outside the city

The plague fell in the 16th century several times many people in Hannover victim. In the Thirty Years' War the "Black Death" was rampant again in the city after, for example, in 1624 many people in Hanover sought refuge from the troops of General Tilly . In 1712/13, based on this experience and in order to avoid the spread of the epidemic in Bremen and Verden, a "sick hospital" was built outside the city ​​fortifications of Hanover on the edge of the Eilenriede. However, since the epidemic did not reach the city again, the building became the seat of a timber warden, who soon ran a popular restaurant there.

First restorations and port

In 1714, the building was leased as the Zum golden Löwen inn , and Redecker's town chronicle from 1741 called it "Weinschenke ... im Neuenhaus".

Shortly afterwards there in 1747, a port along with repair shop for peat cutters built, over the Schiffgraben to the Altwarmbüchener Moor shipped degraded peat to Hanover, where the peat as "the most important fuel [time]" in Beginenturm was stored.

In the first address book of the city of Hanover , the tavern was recommended in 1798 as "also well suited for lovers of shooting" and "as a beautiful promenade with arbor and walks, where wine and coffee are presented."

The restaurant located “on the Elenriede, to the left of the Aegidientore ” was praised in 1818 as a place of entertainment for the beautiful and elegant world. The “Caffeehaus und Restauration zum Neuen Haus” soon also offered billiards , from 1837 with a summer theater , which was later replaced by entertainment and military concerts.

In the Kingdom of Hanover , the first animals for the Hanover Zoo were kept in temporary cages at the New House in 1865 .

Shortly after the “unveiling”, comparatively tiny people observe the photographer; Cabinet photograph from 1884
The current arcades are in place of the former war memorial ; next to the tram , the lavish gardens of Julius Trip can be seen.
Still recognizable in the enlargement despite the collotype : The war memorial in the line of sight of Königstraße

In the year of the proclamation of the German Empire , the building phase of the Wilhelminian era began : In 1871, the (today's) square in front of the New House was laid out, at the point of contact between the Oststadt and Zoo districts , and named after the half-timbered house at the New House built in 1712 . The jingoism led at this place for the inauguration of the "Hanoverian war memorial par excellence": On 10 May 1874 the anniversary of the Treaty of Frankfurt , today's arcades was at the point the Prussian embossed "provincial war memorial" dedicated the round the pedestal listed the "heroes" killed in the war by name. The memorial was erected at the end of Königstrasse , exactly in the straight extension of Theaterstrasse and the classicistic visual axis that Laves had already designed, starting from the Royal Court Theater .

But the old half-timbered house was soon no longer able to cope with the steadily growing demands of the bourgeoisie , and so it was demolished in 1892 in favor of a new "New House".

New building from 1894

According to the plans of the architect Paul Rowald , a representative new building was created as an elegant concert café. The associated terraces, a large concert garden and the surrounding gardens and parks were created by the city garden inspector and later garden director Julius Trip , who later also created the Maschpark and, at the turn of the century, transformed the “Vordere Eilenriede” into a forest park , starting at the New House .

The New House, “Hanover's most beautiful forest management”, was close to the city, was easy to get to with the former tram and was one of the most popular excursion destinations in the city for decades due to its good concert performances.

After the First World War, and especially since the end of the 1920s, the New House - like other excursion destinations - gradually lost its audience, according to the press "due to the slow onset of motorization ". In the year of the seizure of power in 1933 , the National Socialists specified a more stringent approach: The Am Neuen Haus square was renamed after the "Commanding General of the X Army Corps", Otto von Emmich . During the Third Reich , the New House was closed in 1936, and one year later it was handed over to the National Socialist Women's Association as the “Woman's House” .

The dismantling of the war memorial began in the Second World War: in 1941 the bronze figures of the war memorial had to be delivered for the purpose of being melted down by the armaments industry , but the base was only removed after 1945. The New House suffered bomb damage during the air raids on Hanover , but was soon temporarily restored. For several years, the building, which was run by the City of Hanover from 1948, served again as a restaurant, in whose coffee garden there was room for more than 1,100 visitors. The Hanover State Theater later used the building until it was demolished in 1970 for the new building for the University of Music and Theater . The arcades that have been preserved and rebuilt on Emmichplatz form a “special contrast to the strict facade of the university” with the Reese fountain, which is also a listed building .

literature

Historical recordings in public ownership

Web links

Commons : Neues Haus (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Röhrbein, Hoerner; City Lexicon Hanover
  2. ^ Hugo Thielen: Emmichplatz 1
  3. ^ A b Wolfgang Neß: Expansion of the district [zoo] up to the turn of the century. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1 , vol. 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 ; P. 147; as well as annex to vol. 10.2: Emmichplatz ; in: Zoo In: Hans-Herbert Möller (Hrsg.): Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 10. Wolfgang Neß among others: City of Hanover. Part 2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 10
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Pest. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 499
  5. ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: 1712. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 77
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Schiffgraben. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 541
  7. ↑ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer: 1740 , in: Hannover Chronik , p. 87
  8. ^ A b Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6
  9. ^ A b c Klaus Mlynek : Franco-German War 1870/71. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 131f.
  10. ↑ a b compare text on the reverse of this: Kabinettfotografie
  11. ^ Postcard number "529" by Karl F. Wunder
  12. ↑ Laves pen drawing in color watercolors for the expansion of the city on Georgstrasse with the new court theater on the former Windmühlenplatz , around 1842, Lower Saxony State Archives - Main State Archives Hanover , “LN 8”, Fig. 29.1 in: Harold Hammer-Schenk : The court theater of GLF Laves in Hanover . In: Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxony architecture in the 19th century , rev. New edition d. Catalog for the exhibition "From the castle to the train station, building in Hanover ...", ed. by Harold Hammer Schenk and Günther Kokkelink , Verlag Th.Schäfer and Institute for the History of Architecture and Art of the University of Hanover , Hanover 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 215
  13. ^ Hugo Thielen : Trip, Julius. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 627f.
  14. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 . (With a contribution by Franz Rudolf Zankl), p. 206
  15. ^ Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover. Today and a hundred years ago. City history photographed. , Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , p. 174

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 38.7 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 11.9"  E