Sisters' House (Hanover)

The sister house

The building shortly after construction in the Bult in the background the Heilig-Geist-Stift ;
Postcard No. 530 , Karl F. Wunder , around 1898

Membership card of the sister house ( Meterstrasse 27 ) in the Association against House Begging , 1880

The sister house is a listed building at Schwesternhausstrasse 10 in the Bult district . Today it is used as a self-managed student residence.

building

The building site for the sister house was acquired in 1896 for 100,000  marks . He was on the Great Bult ; at that time a new development area. The building was built in 1896/1897 according to plans by the architect Emil Lorenz in collaboration with Christoph Hehl and inaugurated on November 11, 1897. It cost 312,000  marks . In the immediate vicinity, the Rats and von Soden monastery and the Heilig-Geist-Spital and Stift were rebuilt from 1893 to 1895 . From 1895 the new veterinary college was built nearby .

The sister house has been used as a student residence since 1971. Over time, the heavy war damage to the building was repaired. 73 reusable individual apartments and eleven shared apartments were built in the rebuilt pointed roof of the main wing. The sister house is a listed building and is included in the list of architectural monuments in Hanover .

history

The sister house was built in 1896/1897 as a replacement for the first sister house in Meterstrasse by the sister house foundation under the direction of pastor Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker . For more than 70 years it served as a residence for single women of the educated middle class. Today around 120 students from a wide variety of fields live in the building. The building is managed by the residents on a grassroots basis .

literature

• Wolfgang Neß : Between Bischofsholer Damm and Hans-Böckler-Allee. In: Hans-Herbert Möller (ed.), Wolfgang Neß (edit.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 1, [vol.] 10.1. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 140ff., As well as Appendix Bult. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological preservation of monuments) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 9f.
• Rainer Kasties: sister house. 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. 558f.

Web links

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

• History of the establishment

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The sister house through the ages - the sister house. Accessed on November 13, 2018 (German). 

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 8.6 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 3.8 ″  E