Nordstadt bathing establishment

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"Badeanstalt Wenger" lettering above the passage at Oberstrasse 13 in the northern part of Hanover
Blue and turquoise glazed ceramic tiles in the lowered mikveh of the Nordstädter bathing establishment

The Nordstädter Badeanstalt in Hanover was a bathing establishment founded in the 19th century . The location was Oberstrasse 13 in the so-called " monument preservation area of interest" of the Hanover district of Nordstadt .

history

During the founding period during the German Empire , the entrepreneur Georg Wenger first set up a larger laundry on the property at Oberstrasse 8 in 1886 .

Since the demand for both water baths in bathtubs and spa treatments increased sharply at the end of the 19th century , Wenger acquired a considerably larger property at Oberstrasse 13, had a bathing establishment built there and connected the facility with his initially continued laundry until he this finally gave up after the bathing facility was enlarged.

In Oberstrasse 13, hot air baths could then be offered, “steam sweat baths ” , “ electric light baths” and numerous medical baths such as “Soole ”, spruce needle , sulfur and carbonic acid baths, water baths, showers based on Kneipp medicine, as well as inhalations and massages of all kinds. In 1900, the Nordstädter Badeanstalt also included mud baths in its program; in particular, they administered moor soil from Schmiedeberg .

After the company's founder died in 1925, his son Fritz Wenger took over the Nordstädter Badeanstalt.

After the Second World War , in 1947 the Jewish Committee set up a mikveh , a ritual immersion bath, in Wenger's bathing establishment . Previously, the Jews of Hanover had to travel to Celle for ritual cleansing in order to use the mikveh there.

See also

Web links

Commons : Nordstädter Badeanstalt (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Paul Siedentopf : Georg Wenger, Hanover. Nordstadt bathing establishment. Oberstraße 13 , in: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover in 1927 , Jubilee-Verlag Walter Gerlach, Leipzig (1927), p. 433
  2. ↑ Compare Gerd Weiß: Ortkarte 3 , 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 , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 34f., And the associated legend
  3. ↑ Anke Quast: After the Liberation. Jewish communities in Lower Saxony since 1945 - the example of Hanover. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , p. 136; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Anke Quast: Jewish Committee and Jewish Community Hanover. The difficult beginning of a community. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed.): In the shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish life in Lower Saxony after 1945. Ed. By the Working Group on the History of Lower Saxony (after 1945), Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen Vol. 38, Hahn, Hanover 1997 , ISBN 3-7752-5840-X , p. 60

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 54.8 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 22.4"  E