Sweden House (Hanover)

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The Schwedenhaus in Hanover , also known as Schwedenhäuser or in the vernacular, Schwedenheim , was a group of wooden barracks built in the Eilenriede near the Lister Tower in the early post-war period .

History and description

Only a short time after the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the bombs of which had also caused "considerable damage" in the Eilenriede, the Inner-European Mission of the Swedish Red Cross built a children's home near the Lister Tower : the so-called "Swedish houses" became Inaugurated under the British Military Government on November 6, 1947 by the President of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Folke Bernadotte . In the following year 1948, the old Waldchaussee was renamed Bernadotte-Allee through the Eilenriede in its course from Walderseestrasse to Adenauerallee in the Zoo district .

Parts of the red-painted barracks, which initially served as accommodation for children and refugees , served the members of the newly founded Free Evangelical Community of Hanover as a community center from around 1959 , who called it the Swedish House.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the buildings became the property of the Lower Saxony state capital. They were used by very different groups until the 1970s, for example by students at the University of Music and Theater. For example, the singing student and later opera singer Bernd Weikl swapped his room in the dormitory for “a tiny cell in this wooden building” called Schwedenheim.

At times mentally handicapped children were also accommodated in the Schwedenheim.

For the end of March 1973 the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung announced the move of the art center initiated by Reinhard Schamuhn from the underground bunker under the Klagesmarkt to the Schwedenheim.

However, there were repeated discussions with the Eilenriede Advisory Board about the preservation of the buildings and “their use for living for specific groups in a privileged location” on the one hand, as well as the general public's claim for demolition in favor of the availability of these areas for local recreation .

After a long period of vacancy, the Swedish houses in Eilenriede were finally demolished in 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : History of the Free Evangelical Congregation Hanover on the website feg.de [ undated ], last accessed on June 26, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Bohlius , Wolfgang Leonhardt (ed.): “The List.” 700 years of reviewing the village and town history , 1st edition, Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 3-8334-0276 -8 , p. 31; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Weikl: Light & Shadow. My world career as an opera singer. A mother-son relationship as a second act , autobiography, 1st edition, Berlin: Pro Business Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939430-85-8 and ISBN 3-939430-85-4 , p. 22; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Eilenriede. 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 , pp. 149–152; here: p. 150.
  5. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1947. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 211-218; here: p. 217
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bernadotte-Allee , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 39
  7. ↑ a b c Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , Hansjörg Küster: The Eilenriede. (PDF, 1.44 MB) Hanover's city forest and the Eilenried Advisory Board. State capital Hanover , May 2016, accessed on June 26, 2018 .
  8. ^ Stefan Kleinschmidt: A short history of the air raid shelter under the Klagesmarkt 1940 to 2013 , presented on behalf of the Hannover City Archives , Hannover, 2013, p. 22; as a PDF document on the page Zukunft-heisst-erinnern.de ; [1]

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 26.2 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 32"  E