Raschplatz

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Raschplatz
Coat of arms of Hannover.svg
Place in Hanover
Raschplatz
Raschplatz with the Lister Tor skyscraper
Basic data
place Hanover
District center
Created 1884
Newly designed 1976, redesigned in 2009/10
Confluent streets Berliner Allee, Lister Meile , Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade , Rundestrasse
Buildings Lister Tor high-rise , central station , Sparkasse Hannover
use
User groups Foot traffic
Technical specifications
Square area approx. 50 m × 100 m

The Raschplatz in Hanover is a pedestrian area in the Mitte district right by the main train station . It represents the northern end of the Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade , which merges into the pedestrian zone of the Lister Meile . Today's square with its characteristic -1 location was created after the subway was built in the mid-1970s.

description

Like the Niki-de-Saint-Phalle-Promenade, the approximately 50 m × 100 m square is located on the -1 level below street level. It is located on the urban development axis from the city center on Kröpcke to Lister Platz . The square is surrounded by large buildings, high-rise buildings and a row of shops. It is limited to the main station by a multi-storey car park and to the Oststadt by the 23-story high-rise Lister Tor . The Hauptbahnhof underground station is below it . On the eastern side there is the 17-storey high-rise building of the Sparkasse Hannover , a hotel and a Cinemaxx multiplex cinema , opposite the casino Hannover, the arthouse cinema Kino am Raschplatz and the Osho disco.

history

The Raschplatz was created in 1884 as a forecourt at the rear of the Hanoverian train station on the site of former railway workshops. It was named after the former Hanover city director Johann Carl Hermann Rasch . Since the square was on the side facing away from the city center, its design was more modest than the Ernst-August-Platz at the front. Like parts of the eastern part of the city, the Raschplatz used to be the district behind the train station .

A disorderly development with residential, administrative and industrial use arose around the Raschplatz. A court complex and the judicial prison were built close to the square . The old justice building , which was moved into in 1888, was completely destroyed in the Second World War. Today's regional court was established in its place from 1952 to 1956 . The New Justice Building , built from 1907 to 1911, is now the seat of the local court .

In 1951 - a view to increasing Oststadt "in an exemplary cooperation between the - building community Hanover and the city administration ," the progress of the new Raschplatz- tangent set as the route between the Weidendamm / Vahrenwalder Straße and the Sallstraße in the southern part .

The prison was demolished after the war to make way for Hamburger and Berliner Allee .

Hanover Central Station was expanded several times while building parts of the Raschplatz. In 1910 a third station hall for tracks 10 and 11 was added to the Raschplatz. The halls were destroyed in the air raids on Hanover in World War II. After the reconstruction, another track was added in 1963. In 1970, another platform with tracks 13 and 14 was built to carry out the underground underpass.

In 1922, the oil company Olex opened the first petrol station in the public space of the German Reich on Raschplatz .

Several attempts have been made to upgrade the square in terms of urban development. After the redesign following the construction of the underground, Hertie opened a department store on Raschplatz under the name Wertheim , which was soon converted into a furniture store due to a lack of sales and closed completely in 1979.

Between August 2008 and September 2010, the Raschplatz and the Raschplatz 5 building were renewed and redesigned as the north-west boundary. The Hannover Casino has recently moved into this building.

  • Raschplatz around 1890 with the Palace of Justice, which was destroyed in the Second World War, today the location of the regional court

  • View from Raschplatz to Alte Celler Heerstrasse

  • Raschplatz after the renovation at night

  • After the renovation (2012) in the direction of the cinema and main station

  • View along the Raschplatz tangent towards the northwest

Media reports (selection)

  • Christian Bohnenkamp: The big Raschplatz project / The dirty kid should finally become a showcase area - thanks to numerous upcoming changes. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ) of June 10, 2014, p. 11

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: 1951. In: Hannover Chronik , here: p. 230, 243 u. ö .; online through google books
  2. ↑ The new Raschplatz in Hanover is ready. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , September 16, 2010

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 42.7 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 36.5"  E