Prinzenhaus (Hanover)

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The Prinzenhaus in the Prinzengarten, in the background the Chemical Institute of the (today's) Leibniz University of Hanover ;
Incorrectly titled with the location Herrenhausen : colored picture postcard No. 800 , anonymous photographer, around 1900

The Prinzenhaus in Hanover was a pleasure house originally built at the beginning of the 18th century and relocated to the northern part of the city in 1861 . The Allied air raids in 1943 it was destroyed.

history

After the Principality of Calenberg was elevated to the status of the Electorate of Hanover , the then Elector Georg Ludwig , who later established the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover as George I , commissioned the builder Brand Westermann to build a pleasure house for the younger sister of Countess Klara Elisabeth von Platen , Maria Katharina von Weyhe , widowed vd Busche , now the wife of Lieutenant General von Weyhe. The building, soon popularly known as “Weyhen Löbe”, was erected between 1705 and 1706, initially on a bastion of the city ​​fortifications of Hanover , on the former ramparts behind the former “Reithaus” near the stone gate . A "view in the Contrescharp between the Clever and Stein Thor" made by the painter and engraver shows the building in the middle of the bastion "[...] east of the Cavalier Bridge ".

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the Natural History Association was able to use the house from 1847 to 1850. In the course of the construction of the Welfenschloss for the family of King George V , the area west of the Welfengarten also came into the possession of the Welfs presumably around 1860.The two green spaces were initially separated from each other by a wall and an avenue of chestnut trees , and at the end of the Allee, King George V in 1861 now the former house "Weyhen Lobe" said building translocate , in memory of his mother Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The new park , which was designed in a simplified form as a “simple natural garden ” according to the planning of the garden artist Franz Christian Schaumburg , was soon called the “ Prinzengarten ”, similar to the “Prinzenhaus” that was moved here [...] because it was formerly used by the sisters and later queens Luise von Prussia and Friederike von Hanover in their childhood as a place of residence ”. The prince's house of the former princesses remained uninhabited until 1866, the year of the Battle of Langensalza , after which the Kingdom of Hanover was annexed by Prussia and then declared the [Prussian] Province of Hanover .

Building description

In the mezzanine floor of the wood-paneled , single-storey and comparatively modest building from the Baroque era , a two-armed flight of stairs led in front of the main entrance in front of the “S-front” , while the window front of the garden room faced north.

See also

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Lusthaus of the Lieutenant General von Weyhe . In ders .: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1, monuments of the "old" urban area of ​​Hanover , the art monuments of the province of Hanover vol. 1, issue 2, part 1, Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes bookstore, 1932 (reprinted in Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. 418f.

Web links

Commons : Prinzenhaus  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, for example, a typewritten subtitle with a question mark on a photo of the building from around 1894 mentions: "[...] Architect Remy de la Fosse (?)"; compare Weyhen Löbe & Former Prince's House in the picture index of art and architecture
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, the year 1856 is named as the year of the expansion of the green areas of the Welfengarten, compare Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Welfengarten. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 214

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Michael Rohde: Construction of the Welfenschloss and design of [the] new Guelph and Prinzengarten from 1857 . In: Wolfgang Pietsch, Sid Auffarth : The University of Hanover: Your buildings, your gardens, your planning history. Edited on behalf of the University of Hanover, Imhof, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3 , p. 157ff.
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (functions). 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. 274.
  3. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover, when Georg I was King of Great Britain a. Ireland. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 210f.
  4. ↑ a b c d Eva Benz-Rababah : Welfengarten. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , s. 665f.
  5. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Lusthaus des Lieutenant General von Weyhe (see literature)
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Welfenschloss. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 668f.
  7. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Welfengarten. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 214
  8. ^ Klaus Mlynek : German War. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 130
  9. ↑ Compare, for example, this postcard

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 6.7 "  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 58"  E