Sisters' house on Meterstrasse

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Around 1900: View over the garden to the building of the women's monastery at the Schwesternhaus in Meterstrasse

The sister house in the street meters from Hannover served a mid-19th century, founded convent , from which the later Altenwohnanlage senior Bödeker pen emerged. The building was located on Meterstrasse near Sextrostrasse in what is now the Südstadt district for almost a hundred years .

history

At the beginning of the industrialization that began in the Kingdom of Hanover in the 1830s , pastor Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker , who worked at the Marktkirche , founded numerous social aid institutions, especially for people at risk of poverty in the former royal seat of Hanover. One of his preferred projects was the construction of a sister house, which Bödeker founded between 1847 and 1848 as an “ asylum for unprofitable aging virgins of the middle class ”.

By issuing shares , Bödeker was able to finance a plot of land at the - today's - address at Meterstrasse 27 and on December 5, 1848, finally inaugurating the newly built "Frauenstift Schwesternhaus" ( women's monastery) there . It initially offered 37 canonies living space. Admission requirements were an innocent reputation, a minimum age of 25 years and the Protestant denomination .

Membership card of the nurses' house at Meterstrasse 27 in the Association against House Begging , around 1880

Having been in the early days of the German Empire the end of 1880 beginning of 1881, the old House of the Estates at the George Street was demolished in Hannover, whose out was iron castings manufactured grid of the side facing the Osterstraße garden which also scenic house said means for the enclosure of the garden of the nurse's home on the Meterstrasse and Sextrostrasse have been relocated .

In 1894 the board of directors of the monastery decided to build a new building, which could then be inaugurated in 1897 on Schwesternhausstrasse .

The building at street meters was - as well as the converted from the House of the Estates mesh fencing - by the bombing of Hannover in World War II, a victim of the bombs .

Today's successor institution is - after the sister house in Schwesternhausstrasse - the Senior Bödeker Stift in the Hanover district of Kirchrode , Brabeckstrasse 92 .

Archival material

Archives from and about the nurses' house on Meterstrasse can be found, for example

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Martin Stöber (Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Regional Research eV, editing): Senior-Bödeker-Stift. In: Foundations for the poor through the centuries. 750 years of tradition and responsibility in Hanover , documentation for the exhibition of the same name, ed. von Stift zum Heiligen Geist, St. Nikolai Stift zu Hannover, Johann-Jobst Wagener'sche Foundation, State Capital Hannover, Hannover 2008, pp. 40–45; here: p. 44
  2. ↑ a b c d Horst Kruse: The Ständehaus 1710 - 1881 and the architect Remy de la Fosse. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , pp. 195–284; here: p. 239
  3. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Meterstrasse , in the .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 174
  4. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Industrialization. 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. 314f.
  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Capital (function) , in ders .: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 274
  6. ^ A b c Rainer Kasties MA: sister house. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 558f.
  7. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : The landscape house on Osterstrasse , in ders .: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , ed. from the Provincial Commission for Research and Conservation of the Monuments of the Province of Hanover, Part 1: Monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , Vol. 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hanover: Self-published by the Provincial Administration, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, p. 373-377; here: p. 375 (reprinted by Wenner Verlag, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ) ( digitized parts 1 and 2 via archive.org

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 47"  E