Palais Grote

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View of the palace built by Otto Goetze for Count Adolf von Grote in the style of the Hanover School of Architecture and the English Gothic with its historic ( carriage ) driveway

The Palais Grote in Hannover , including: Grote Palace , is a Grade II listed former aristocracy - Palais from the time of the Kingdom of Hanover . The important work of the Hanover School Of Architecture is considered the "highlight of the house - culture " of that time. Location of the free-standing collection three-storey town palace is the urban exposed position at the address Sophienstraße 7 in the district center .

history

After the moat outside the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover, which was already in use in the Middle Ages , was filled in in 1861 and until then was only lined by the houses of the gardeners of the time, the occupation of elegant double and row villas began in 1860 as part of the expansion of the suburb .

In this situation, the Palais Grote was built in the years 1862-1864 for Count Adolf von Grote , who on behalf of King George V from 1863 to 1866 as an envoy at the Spanish Court of Madrid worked. The palace in the royal seat of Hanover was presumably a gift from Grote's father-in-law, the Hamburg merchant Jenisch . The three-storey, cube-like structure made of yellow bricks with higher cash projections divided the architect Otto Goetze with sandstone in the style of English Gothic , as the Grote family "[...] Anglo-Hanoverian royal family" was close to that more than two centuries in personal union ruled between Great Britain and Hanover .

From 1868 the owners of the Grotesches Palais changed several times.

For the period of National Socialism and during the bombing of Hannover Palais 1943 by a firebomb the Allies hit and burned almost completely.

The south side of the Grotesches Palais at the tip of the triangle Prinzenstrasse , Schiffgraben and Sophienstrasse ; on the green area in front of it the sculpture of the " Borghesi fencer " as a replica from 1918

From 1950 the Lower Saxony State Office for Road Construction used the monument, which was then given a very sober central staircase from which the 38 rooms branch off. The central access made the building "[...] difficult to divide, so that it was always difficult to use it as an office building ". But it was only after more than half a century that the road construction department left the premises in 2004.

In the following year 2005, the state of Lower Saxony sold the castle-like building for 900,000 euros "[...] to the controversial Maharishi World Peace Foundation", which then named the building "Maharishi Peace Palace Hanover" and "Maharishi University". In its newly acquired residence, the foundation offered "[...] seminars with dubious titles", including techniques for "yogic flying", which apparently earned a lot of money.

The owner invested several hundred thousand euros in the Grotesches Palais - according to her own admission, her so-called “ financial capital of Germany”. So the rooms were almost with pomp overloading, "Everything is with gold and jewelery decked . For the repair of the left candelabra on the driveway, actually a requirement of the monument protection , one had apparently no money in the past few years ”.

At the beginning of 2013, the Grotesche Palais was up for sale again - but this time for 4.8 million euros. The staff responsible for the marketing of real estate agency "Real Estate at the Zoo" had however not by the owner authorization received to give to the press more specific information about the background of the sale offer. That same year, convened Hanover court then surprisingly a foreclosure on, for the palace complex, to a value of 3 million euros prized was. The foreclosure auction was canceled in July 2013; Although was Emanuel Schiffgens , the chairman of the Foundation, against the media to reach no opinion. Therefore Conrad von Meding then publicly raised the unanswered question about the property in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) , "[...] why the land had redeemed less than a third when it was sold in 2006."

Media coverage (selection)

The “ Borghesische Fechter ” in front of the Grotesches Palais
  • Conrad von Meding: Grotesche Palais at the Schiffgraben. Small castles facing an uncertain future / experts have estimated the Grotesche Palais on Schiffgraben at three million euros. But now the foreclosure auction of the probably most beautiful neo-Gothic city palace in Hanover has surprisingly been canceled again. It is home to the controversial Maharishi World Peace Foundation, which is supposed to earn a lot of money with its meditation seminars on “yogic flying”. In: HAZ of July 21, 2013, updated July 24, 2013; on-line
  • Christian Bohnenkamp: Real Estate / Hanover: Monument is looking for a lord of the palace. A castle in the middle of Hanover. Ten minutes' walk to the main train station, 38 rooms, for sale for 4.8 million euros. In: Neue Presse of March 9, 2013; on-line

Archival material

An archive can be found for example,

Web links

Commons : Sophienstraße 7 (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Sophienstraße 7. In: Hanover. Art and culture lexicon , new edition, 4th, expanded and updated edition, Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 199f.
  2. ^ A b c Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: "Bankenviertel" (Rathenaustraße / Sophienstrasse / Landschaftsstraße / Prinzenstraße). In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1, (Bd.) 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 70-73; here: p. 72; as well as middle , in the addendum list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Conrad von Meding: Grotesche Palais am Schiffgraben ... In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of July 24, 2013, updated on July 27, 2013
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Schiffgraben. 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. 541.
  5. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke: Grote-Palais. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 238
  6. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Personal union. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 498
  7. ^ A b Christian Bohnenkamp: Real Estate ... In: Neue Presse (NP) of March 9, 2013
  8. ↑ Compare the instructions for use , section illustrations in the Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 697

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 20.2 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 41.4"  E