Schiller Monument (Hanover)

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The Schiller Monument in the pedestrian zone Schillerstraße / Georgstraße
View of the monument from the main building in Karstadt

The Schiller Monument in Hanover is in the pedestrian zone on Georgstraße at the junction with Schillerstraße in the Mitte district . The statue honors the poet Friedrich Schiller and is a listed building . Its history goes back to the Kingdom of Hanover .

history

Schiller Street

The acquisition of the Schiller Monument was preceded by the naming of Schillerstraße: During the Schiller secular celebrations for Friedrich Schiller's 100th birthday on November 10, 1859, the (as part of the Ernst-August-Stadt planned by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves and August Heinrich Andreae ) Reitwallstraße , laid out in 1847 , which led from Ernst-August-Platz in front of the main train station to Reitwall , renamed Schillerstraße at the request of the Schiller Festival Committee on the day of the anniversary . At that time it not only led to the intersection with Georgstrasse, but also straight ahead (along today's Am Marstall square ) to the "Hohen Ufer" on the Leine .

The monument

The Schiller monument in front of the former Ratsgymnasium on Georgsplatz , around 1898

The impulse to purchase the memorial came from the Schiller secular celebrations of 1859: On the 100th birthday of Friedrich von Schiller, “the city of Hanover paid homage to the poet's men” on Theaterplatz , where a colossal figure [of the poet] erected by Ernst von Bandel is from Plaster of paris and canvas was built up. However, the order to create a memorial model was subsequently given to Wilhelm Engelhard , who was “probably the most sought-after sculptor in Hanover” at the time . With the cast was court - bronze foundry Bernstorff & Eichwede mandated that in advance held the planned date of the preparation of the statue in bronze base, the "9th May 1863" re anniversary of the death of the poet. The statue was unveiled on Georgsplatz and since then has stood directly in front of the “representative new building” of the Ratsgymnasium .

After the air raids on Hanover in World War II, the school building on 8/9 Was destroyed in October 1943, the monument was "removed from its old location on Georgsplatz and stored in the municipal building yard" for the new building planned for the Norddeutsche Landesbank in 1955. Four years later, in 1959, it was " re-erected at the rear of the opera house ". It stood there for around 23 years, until it was finally located at the intersection with Schillerstrasse after the completion of the light rail system below Georgstrasse and its "expansion into a pedestrian promenade" in 1982 .

See also

literature

  • On Ernst-August-Stadt and Schillerstraße: Harold Hammer-Schenk : “(...) it is a real question of life." Station and city expansion - The axis. In :: Laves and Hanover. Lower Saxony architecture in the nineteenth century , ed. by Harold Hammer-Schenk and Günther Kokkelink (revised new edition of the publication Vom Schloss zum Bahnhof ... ), Ed. Libri Artis Schäfer, 1989 (582 pp.), ISBN 3-88746-236-X , pp. 268ff.

Web links

Commons : Schillerdenkmal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 01 middle. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1 Vol. 10.1, Annex Directory of Architectural Monuments in accordance with § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover / Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 3ff.
  2. ^ A b c Dieter Brosius : City constitution and urban development. In: The industrial city. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the First World War. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 2, ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein, here: p. 319; on-line:
  3. ↑ Digitized version of the University of Jena : NN : Prologue to the secular celebration by Friedrichs v. Schiller's birthday on November 10, 1859. In: Eisenbergisches Nachrichtenblatt, ed. by Hermann Schnorr, 19th century, No. 96 of December 1, 1859, p. 1; on-line:
  4. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Ernst-August-Stadt. 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. 165; and Eva Benz-Rababah : Ernst-August-Platz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 164
  5. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : Schillerstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 219
  6. ↑ see for example this: City map of Hanover from 1873
  7. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Schiller monument. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , 1st district of Hanover / Issue 2 in two parts / City of Hanover , ed. from the provincial committee and state directorate of the province of Hanover, self-published by the provincial administration / Theodor Schulzes bookstore, issue 19 of the complete work, Hanover 1932, p. 753
  8. ^ Hugo Thielen : Engelhardt (t), (1) Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover, p. 160
  9. ^ Hermann Lüer, Max Creutz : History of Metal Art , published by Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1904; Vol. 1 partially digitized online:
  10. ↑ see this photo: "Built at 9 with the inscription th May 1863"
  11. ↑ a b Hans Kammel: Ratsgymnasium. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 333; for the installation site see the postcard Hannover. Schiller Monument. by Karl F. Wunder
  12. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Georgsplatz 1. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , Handbook and City Guide , ed. by Dirk Böttcher and Klaus Mlynek , 4th updated and expanded edition, to Klampen Verlag, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 119
  13. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1955. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 240; on-line:
  14. ↑ ders .: 1959. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 247; on-line:
  15. ^ Helmut Knocke: Georgstrasse. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 215
  16. ↑ ders .: 1982. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 285

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 30.6 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 7.8"  E