Place of the Göttingen Seven (Hanover)

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View over the place of the Göttinger Sieben towards the Marktkirche , on the left the building of the Lower Saxony State Parliament , on the right part of the monument of the Göttinger Sieben

The Platz der Göttinger Sieben in Hannover is an early 1960s by the architect Dieter Oesterlen designed architectural space between the building of the Parliament of Lower Saxony (Plenary Hall on Leineschloss ) and the Karmarschstraße . The forecourt, designed as a pedestrian zone , is complemented by an - unnamed - pedestrian bridge in the direction of Friederikenplatz and a waterfall instead of the river water art that was previously broken off . Looking for a " Lower Saxony - landmark " This was parts Waterworks later, the monument of Göttingen Seven built.

history

Similar direction of view to the " blue hour "

Today's square is located on the site of buildings that were demolished at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1852 and 1853 and which reached up to Karmarschstrasse, which was later laid out.

After the aerial bombs destroyed the Leineschloss in 1943 except for a " torso " during the Nazi era and the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the Lower Saxony state parliament in the still young Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 initially approved the - to be rebuilt - Leineschloss as the seat of the Parliament in the "government district" in the area around Waterlooplatz and Leibnizufer . But it was not until 1954 that an architectural competition was announced, which the 1st prize winner Dieter Oesterlen was able to win. The construction of the plenary hall in particular did not take place until the economic boom from 1957 to 1962. During this time, from around 1961, the first ideas for a new landmark in Lower Saxony arose.

Only in the following years, after an inconspicuous replacement building south of Friederikenplatz for river water art had been erected, was the hydraulic structure with its machine hall , richly decorated by Carl Dopmeyer , demolished - despite violent protests from the population - in order to better integrate the Leineschloss into urban planning.

Designed by Dieter Oesterlen in 1963 : the dam on the leash
Illuminated waterfall behind the pedestrian bridge, in the background the Wangenheimpalais and the New Town Hall ; seen from the Leineufer at the Leineschloss

Again it was Dieter Oesterlen who redesigned the forecourt of the state parliament. In 1963 the dam and the pedestrian bridge were built with the preserved sculptures of the old river gods as decoration .

The irony of history: In order to be able to build the Hanover subway under the main train station , the Ernst August monument was temporarily moved from there to the place of the Göttinger Sieben between 1971 and 1975 , the monument that was in the taste of an absolutist Divine right ruling sovereign Ernst August , whose constitutional breach first led to the protest of the Göttingen Seven and then to their partial expulsion from the Kingdom of Hanover.

After all, the place of the Göttinger Sieben only got its current name in 1993, when the design competition for the monument of the same name was won by the Italian artist Floriano Bodini .

Around 150 citizens protested in 2010 , including the building historian Sid Auffarth and the architect Harald Leonhardt, who was a friend of the late Oesterlen, at the protest against the planned demolition of the listed plenary hall of the Lower Saxony state parliament built by Dieter Oesterlen and a much larger new building over the Platz der Göttinger Sieben , the Green MP Enno Hagenah and people from the “ Citizens' Participation Initiative ”. For the campaign that began at “five to twelve” at the beginning of December 2010, the administration of the state parliament and the Hanover police department had granted an exemption from the ban miles law.

After the successful public protest , only the renovation and renovation of the state parliament building was started, but the previous trees had to be removed from so-called "box linden trees ", which are later to be replaced by higher ones.

Before that - for the first time also on the place of the Göttinger Sieben - the meanwhile third "Citizen Brunch" took place on June 22nd, 2014, a common meal of up to 4000 citizens brought food and drinks with music, dance and cabaret around the market church and the two forecourts of the Lower Saxony state parliament. The organizer for the good cause was once again the Hannover Community Foundation , patron for the first time being Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok .

Not only the building historian Sid Auffarth summed up the possible design of the place of the Göttinger Sieben as a “lively town square ”:

"[...] It is important to make stops in the flowing traffic of the city, to 'provide creative spaces in which necessary real experiences in the cultural and interpersonal area can be made between the groups that are separated in everyday life'."

Media coverage (selection)

  • Stefanie Kaune: Platz der Göttinger Sieben / 150 opponents of the demolition of the plenary hall demonstrate in Hanover / With flutter tape and balloons: 150 opponents of the demolition of the plenary hall demonstrated on Saturday on Platz der Göttinger Sieben in Hanover In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of December 5, 2010; last accessed online on November 16, 2014

literature

Web links

Commons : Platz der Göttinger Sieben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Platz der Göttinger Sieben (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Pl. 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 148–151; here: p. 151
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke: Karmarschstrasse. 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. 337.
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke: River water art. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 184f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Constitutional Conflict. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 641
  6. ↑ a b Stefanie Kaune: Platz der Göttinger Sieben ... (see under the section media coverage )
  7. ↑ Michael Nicolay: Our state parliament has a bird ... Wood pigeon saves tree from being cut down / The major clear-cut for the conversion of the state parliament: Workers have cut down 24 box linden trees on the place of the Göttinger Sieben. But a tree has stopped in front of the site fence. Has it been forgotten? No. The solution to the riddle is more of a peep on the page of the " Bild " newspaper of August 21, 2014; last accessed online on November 16, 2014
  8. ↑ Dorothea Jäger, Rüdiger Garbs, Jürgen Gundlach, Regina Kevekordes, Monika Prött (responsible): 3rd Hannoverscher Bürger-Brunch on June 22, 2014 on the buergerstiftung-hannover.de page ; last accessed online on November 16, 2014
  9. ↑ Sid Auffarth: Hanover - from the "flowing urban space" to the adventure society. In: Michael Braum, Christian Welzbacher (Ed.): Post-war modernity ... (see literature)
  10. ↑ Quotation from: Thomas Sieverts: Perspectives for the public space. In: Baukultur , Heft 6, 1990, S. 6-10, after: Michael Braum, Christian Welzbacher (Ed.): Post-war modern ... (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 11.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 3"  E