Packhof (Hanover)

Packhof (top right) in Hanover, 1898

The Packhof in Hanover was a municipal facility and served as a Packhof and tax-free defeat for the goods of the Hanoverian trading companies.

Location and use

From 1813 the old Packhof was located in the old powder magazine on the so-called Norder-Bothfelder Bastion on Georgstrasse , opposite the Grosse Packhofstrasse , which has been known since 1833 .

Due to the increase in trade, multiple expansions were made. As early as 1860 it became apparent that the system was too small and would not meet the requirements without a rail connection.

New Packhof

View in the 19th century through Rosenstrasse to the central projection of the New Packhof on Artilleriestrasse

The new Packhof in the background to the left of the Ernst August Memorial , inaugurated in 1861 ;
Chromolithography from the Ernst August album based on a photograph by Friedrich Wunder

After the railway went into operation, a new building was built on Artilleriestraße between 1861 and 1865 , between Herschelstraße and the railway. An imposing large complex was created in the magnificent late round arch style . The architect Ludwig Droste used different colored bricks and sandstone. The building had conspicuously designed risalits and different floor heights with a central market hall.

After the Ernst August Memorial was inaugurated in 1861 , the photographer Friedrich Wunder documented the memorial shortly afterwards with a photograph preserved today in the Hanover Historical Museum , which was used as a template for a chromolithography of the Ernst August album that was published in 1862 as a souvenir tape for the participants served. The construction of the packing yard, which had only just begun at the time, was shown as "completed".

After the tax and customs loss laws were changed and the market hall was built in the old town, the Packhof became increasingly unprofitable. It was closed and canceled in 1905.

literature

• Georg Sartorius : About the same taxation of the different parts of the country of the Kingdom of Hanover. Hahn Publishing House, 1815.
• Address book of the royal capital and residence city of Hanover for 1866 . Hanover 1866, p. 119.
• Architects and Engineers Association Hanover (Ed.), Theodor Unger (Red.): Städtischer Packhof. In: dies .: Hanover. Guide through the city and its buildings. Commemorative publication for the fifth general assembly of the Association of German Architects and Engineers . Klindworth, Hannover 1882, p. 24. (6th reprint edition. Verlag Th. Schäfer, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-88746-050-2 )
• R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present. Ernst Kniep, Hanover 1880, p. 596.
• Arnold Nöldeke : Municipal Packhof. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1, Issue 2, Part 1, self-published by the Hannover Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, Hannover 1932, pp. 680f. (Reprint: Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 )
• Ludwig Hoerner : The new Packhof building on Artilleriestraße, before 1866. In: Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 156f.
• Ludwig Hoerner: 48a. Rosenstrasse with a view of the Packhof and 48b office building of the Bundespost on Rosenstrasse. In: Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover today and 100 years ago. City history photographed. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-88814-105-2 , pp. 114f.
• Harold Hammer-Schenk : The Packhof in Hanover. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 391ff.
• Günther Kokkelink, Monika Lemke-Kokkelink : The Packhof. In: Günther Kokkelink, Monika Lemke-Kokkelink: Architecture in Northern Germany. Architecture and handicrafts of the Hanover School 1850–1900. Schlueter, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-87706-538-4 , pp. 41, 49.
• Franz Rudolf Zankl : Sign of the Royal Main Tax Office from the Packhof in Artilleriestraße. Painted wood. Around 1860. In: Hanover Archive . Sheet H 19 .
• Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Packhof. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 493. Restricted preview in the Google book search

Archives and museum pieces

Archives about the Hanover packing yards can be found, for example

• in the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) , there among other things in the estate of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves
• in the city ​​archive of Hanover
• In the Historical Museum of Hanover there is a series of photographs of the New Packhof building made by Friedrich Wunder before 1866, measuring 37.8 × 33 cm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner : Friedrich Karl Wunder (1815-1893). Hanover's first photographer. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 39 (1985), Issue 2-4, pp. 262-295; here: pp. 272, 285
2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Stadtlexikon Hannover: From the beginnings to the present. P. 493 , accessed on May 12, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Harold Hammer-Schenk: The Packhof in Hanover. In: Harold Hammer-Schenk, Günther Kokkelink (eds.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ) Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , p. 391ff.
4. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: The new Packhof building on Artilleriestraße, before 1866. In: Ludwig Hoerner: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910. Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 156f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 37.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 17.1"  E