Roßmühle (Hanover)

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Roßmühle is a street that has been known in Hanover since the Middle Ages and connects Burgstrasse with Am Hohen Ufer in what is now the Mitte district .

history

The Marstalltor in the Roßmühle

The road known under the current name Roßmühle established the connection to the oldest known crossing over the Leine, first mentioned in 1301 . Probably the earliest mention of the historical street by name comes from the 15th century, when the Piperstrate mentioned in 1432 was "probably named after the citizen Tileke Piper who lived on the property Roßmühle 9 ".

After a Roßmühle had been laid out on the street in 1546 - according to a legend panel attached to the street sign it said "around 1600 [...] a horse-driven mill" - the street was given its current official name in 1593.

Coat of
arms of Duke Georg Wilhelm, dated 1649

After Duke Georg von Calenberg had designated the city of Hanover as his residence by a decree of will in the midst of the Thirty Years War in 1636 , he had the ducal armory built from 1643 including the city ​​wall of Hanover , which meant that the Rossmühle was only preserved as a dead end for centuries. Only at dismantling the arsenal by one-third during the early days of the German Empire in 1887, the old passage was made possible again.

After the Second World War in 1967 was Marstalltor in the course of Roßmühle translocated .

In 2013, before the construction of residential and commercial buildings on a plot of almost 2000 m² on the Hohen Ufer and on the Roßmühle street, urban archaeological investigations were carried out. There were building remains from the medieval settlement of Hanover and the foundations of the city wall. During the excavations, a pointed moat was discovered in front of the city wall. It belonged to the ramparts of the city fortifications, which are known as the dirt wall and which had been torn down in earlier centuries.

Today the armory forms part of the Hanover Historical Museum ; on its north side there is the - perhaps by the sculptor Peter Koster created - coat of arms of the Duke Georg Wilhelm from the year 1649th

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : Roßmühle , Roßmühle 7 and Roßmühle 8 in ders. The Art Monuments of the Province of Hanover Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hanover, self-published by the Provincial Administration, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3 -87898-151-1 ), pp. 613f.

Web links

Commons : Roßmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Roßmühle , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 211
  2. a b c Helmut Knocke : On the high bank. 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. 24f .; here: p. 25; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. Compare the photo documentation for the quote
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Residenzrezess (contract). In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 521
  5. a b Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen : Pferdestraße 6 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 178ff .; here: p. 179
  6. Hanover's city fortifications on the Roßmühle
  7. Cellar from the Middle Ages discovered in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from December 15, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '20.4 "  N , 9 ° 43' 54.4"  E