Gatehouses in the Georgengarten
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The gatehouses in Georgengarten , also known as Kavaliershäuser and individually referred to as Cavalierhaus or Laves-Villa in Georgengarten , are a listed ensemble from the first half of the 19th century in the Hanoverian northern part of the Georgengarten at Jägerstraße 15 and Jägerstraße 16.
History and description
The two villas were originally planned as gatehouses as one of the two summer residences of the aristocracy along the way to the electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg summer residence in Herrenhausen : later on the site of a former palace built by Louis Remy de la Fosse in 1709, the pleasure house "Fantaisie" renamed "Monrepos" and "Monplaisier" as well as "Wangenheims Garten", the property was initially transformed into a landscape garden in 1782 .
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Gouache by an unidentified painter, around 1825
At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the royal court building officer Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves received an order from the builder Georg von Wangenheim to build the cavalier houses on Jägerstrasse as part of a planned new construction of the Wangenheim garden palace . According to plans by Laves, two economic buildings were built from 1825 onwards as an imaginary axially symmetrical addition to the Schlösschen Fantaisie - which no longer exists today - or two symmetrical plastered masonry buildings in the style of classicism as a gate surround for the Palais von Monplaisier until 1826 . The long sides of the garden houses with their hipped roofs were "accentuated by slightly protruding, gabled corner risalites ". The emphasis on the ground floor of both houses was made by a round arched block surrounding the windows . A grille between the two buildings marked the passage for the horse-drawn carriages to the planned palace.
While apartments were provided for the servants in the eastern building , Laves originally planned the western garden building as a horse stables , with brick groined vaults on stone pillars on the ground floor, in which the three-aisled hall originally contained lunette windows . Initially, only the house was called the Cavalier House, later both houses were referred to.
The originally planned new construction of the Wangenheim Garden Palace was ultimately not implemented; instead, Wangenheim, who was made an honorary citizen in 1828, commissioned the construction of the Wangenheim Palace on today's Friedrichswall, which was also built by Laves from 1829 to 1832 .
In 1861 the stable was converted into apartments, and in the 1930s the city of Hanover had the stable converted into apartments again.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the then company for building and living , today's Hanova , sold both villas in January 2003 for 690,000 euros. The new owner only became known years later and was then the namesake for the property, which was then called Peters-Villen : The former chairman of IG Metall Jürgen Peters wanted to move into the villas with friends, it was said, but he never moved. Instead, the accusation of a too cheap sale to the ex-union boss was voiced, which the audit office and the public prosecutor investigated, but without finding any legal violations. An architect's estimate initially amounted to 700,000 euros in renovation costs, but then allegedly 1.8 million euros had to be invested after even the foundations in the stable had sunk. As a result, a Hanoverian businessman bought both houses for 1.1 million euros, according to a statement. The difference to the original price resulted, among other things, from the advance payments made by Peters and friends such as EUR 32,000 tenant compensation, EUR 108,000 for architect fees and EUR 60,000 for investments in engineering work.
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While the building on the left could finally be inhabited privately, a restoration of the stable's original facade was planned for 2005.
The building on the right had meanwhile been used as a representative open-plan office on the ground floor, with five offices on the first floor and five other workplaces under the roof. For the 448 square meters of usable space of the former horse stable with its ten rooms as well as for the property with direct access to the water, the "Deli & Con Real Estate Consulting" announced a sale for 3 million euros "until the summer holidays" 2019.
See also
literature
- Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: 93 / garden houses In this: architecture guide Hanover. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 57
- Vera König: Live like a gentleman. Laves villa in Georgengarten is to be sold for three million euros. Interested parties stand in line , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 13, 2019, p. 10 ( online report in the Neue Presse from May 13, 2019 )
Web links
- Architekturpfad 17/17. Kavaliers- / Torhäuser on the website hannover.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgengarten , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 115–118; here v. a. P. 117
- ^ A b c Gerd Weiß : Georgengarten 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. 100f .; as well as Nordstadt. In: Annex directory of architectural monuments according to § 4 NDSchG (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status July 1st, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6f.
- ^ A b c d Eva Benz-Rababah : Georgengarten , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 211ff .; here: p. 211
- ↑ a b c d e f g Vera König: Living like a cavalier. Laves villa in Georgengarten is to be sold for three million euros. Interested parties stand in line , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from May 13, 2019, p. 10
- ↑ a b c d e f g Martin Wörner, Ulrich Hägele, Sabine Kirchhof: 93 / garden houses In this: architecture guide Hanover. Reimer, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01210-2 , p. 57; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ A b Klaus Mlynek : Wangenheim, Georg Christian Ernst Ludwig von , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 655; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Dieter Lange: Herrenhausen - architecture in the garden district , in Harold Hammer-Schenk , Günther Kokkelink (ed.): Laves and Hannover. Lower Saxon architecture in the nineteenth century. (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Hanover: Verlag Th. Schäfer, 1989, ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 173–193; here: p. 177
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '53.91 " N , 9 ° 42' 48.1" E