Black Bear (Hanover)

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Sculpture "Black Bear" made of diabase stone

Schwarzer Bär is a square and traffic junction in the districts of Linden-Mitte and Linden-Süd of the city of Hanover . The square is named after an earlier restaurant of the same name. In the northwest corner of the square is a sculpture of a black bear .

description

Capitol high-rise at Black Bear

Ricklinger Straße, Deisterstraße, Falkenstraße and Blumenauer Straße, the former arterial roads to the southwest to northwest, meet at the Schwarzen Bär and lead on the Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge over the Ihme towards Hanover city center. The stop of the same name for trams 9 and 17 is now on the bridge .

At the Schwarzen Bär and the neighboring streets there is a district center with shops, service providers and restaurants. In the past there was also access to the neighboring Ihmezentrum from here . The Capitol event center as well as other discos and bars ensure that there is also a lively evening. The Capitol high-rise and several buildings on the square from the Wilhelminian era are architectural monuments.

At the southern end of the Black Bear at the transition to Deisterstraße is the old town hall (until 1899) of the town of Linden, which was independent until 1920.

  • Old Linden Town Hall on Deisterstraße

  • Residential and commercial building on the Black Bear

  • House at the Black Bear

  • Schwarzer Bär tram stop on the Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge

history

1899: The wood-clad Hotel zum Schwarzen Bären behind two Hanoverian trams ; on the corner of Falkenstrasse a building of the Hannoversche Bank ;
Postcard No. 196 from F. Astholz jun. from the "Collection of Prof. Dr. S. Giesbrecht ”at the University of Osnabrück

The black bear lies in an old area of linden trees . A bridge that crossed the Ihme at this point was mentioned as early as 1493 . For a long time it was the only connection between Linden and Hanover. Opposite the bridge were the Hengstmannscher Krug ( Black Bear ) and Falkonierhof restaurants as early as 1646 . The inn was first mentioned in 1751 with the name Schwarzer Bär : the landlord placed an advertisement in the newspaper to find the owner of two pigs that had run into the area. In 1774 the Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär was founded here .

Hotel Zum Schwarzen Bär , around 1900
Historical view of the Ihme Bridge and Villa Laves (ca.1890)

The royal court building officer Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves built a villa directly on the Ihme Bridge in 1820 according to his own plans, which he later sold to Georg Egestorff .

Linden's mayor, Hermann Lodemann , planned a horticultural design of the square - as he did on Pfarrlandplatz and Lindener Markt. However, the police headquarters insisted on a traffic-friendly intersection, the square was an important traffic junction, especially for the workers in the Linden industrial plants. From 1878 a horse-drawn tram - the first in Hanover - drove from the Black Bear to Hanover, after electrification followed trams in the direction of Ricklingen and Badenstedt , which were later extended to Gehrden and Barsinghausen . Loads also passed the square. For reasons of space, the weekly market was relocated to today's Linden market square .

Kaiser Wilhelm II at the Black Bear (1898)

During the 19th century nationalized in the vernacular the name Black Bear for the square in front of the restaurant one, which was a center for social and political gatherings. On September 3, 1898 , Wilhelm II passed the Black Bear on his way to the hunt in Springe . A gate of honor was specially built for this occasion.

In the last days of the First World War , the Hartmann brothers opened a bookstore in Haus Schwarzer Bär 7, which was run by Hans Klinge until the 1970s and finally moved to Falkenstrasse, named after the Falkonierhof, in 1994. The two brothers left the business in the early 1920s and founded an office supplies business, which later became Geha-Werke .

During the Second World War, there was a camp for slave labor at the Black Bear. In October 1943, numerous buildings were destroyed in the air raids on Hanover . The eponymous hotel and inn Schwarzer Bär (today: Schwarzer Bär 8), which was converted into a magnificent new building in Art Nouveau style in 1902 , was also completely destroyed. The square largely lost its original face. After the end of the war, the reconstruction began, the buildings were mostly rebuilt in the simple style of the 1950s. In 1954 the square was officially named the Black Bear.

The Capitol high-rise at Schwarzen Bär 2 was built between 1929 and 1930 according to plans by the architect Friedrich Hartjenstein in the style of brick expressionism and housed a cinema until the 1980s. Since then, the Capitol has been a popular event center, which often hosts concerts with up to 2,500 spectators.

In 2004 a public participation process was started on the occasion of the planned complete renovation. In 2005 the square was redesigned and a black bear was set up as a sculpture. The two tram stops on the square were merged into one stop on the Benno-Ohnesorg Bridge .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An old quarter comes to life again Article in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from September 24, 2014
  2. ↑ Gisela Pape: Memories of the "Black Bear" on postkarten-archiv.de, January 2008
  3. ↑ Report on public participation, with photo of the Black Bear before renovation

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 4.7 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 10.6"  E