Seven Brothers (Hildesheim)

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The "Seven Brothers", 2008

The listed housing estate Sieben Brüder in Hildesheim consists of a group of seven small single houses made of red brick around a common courtyard at Feldstrasse 27 in the Galgenberg district . The complex from 1880 was built as a housing estate for needy families and goes back to a charitable foundation from Ernestine Nagel to the city of Hildesheim. At the request of the founder, the houses were named after her seven brothers.

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The two-story buildings surround a small, shared, green courtyard on the 1700 m² property. They were built in 1880 by Hildesheim city architect Gustav Schwartz in the style of the Hanover architecture school . The names of the houses are each on a simple sandstone slab on their facade: Floridus, Clemens, Maximilian, Levin, Franz-Egon, Wilhelm, Paul (from left to right).

Two buildings stand parallel to Feldstrasse and allow a clear view of the courtyard between them, two houses each to the left and right along the courtyard, the seventh forms its end. They offer between 51 and 76 m² of living space and also have a basement and attic. The standard of living was very simple, so there was only one water connection for all houses in an extension that served as a wash house to the Levin house at the end of the courtyard. In the years after the Second World War, the houses got their own water connection and a small extension to the porch with a toilet. It was not until the early 1980s that the houses were completely renovated and given central heating and their own bathrooms on the upper floor. Since the sale in 2002, the houses have been renovated again, some of them merged into larger units.

history

Ernestine Nagel was born on June 27, 1797 as the daughter of the Hildesheim court and medical councilor Hermann Lewin Schmidtjan (d. 1802), personal physician of the last Hildesheim prince-bishops Friedrich Wilhelm and Franz Egon . After an unhappy short marriage in Hanover, she returned to Hildesheim soon after the birth of her son Lewin Franz (born March 5, 1819). In 1866 she decreed that after her death, her assets, which consisted of properties near Münster , should initially be used to care for her alcoholic son, who was housed in the Hildesheim sanatorium . After his death, however, the remainder should go to a charitable foundation of the city. The aim of the foundation was to build seven collegiate houses to commemorate their seven brothers and to make them available to families in need in Hildesheim.

Ernestine Nagel died on September 13, 1867, her son Lewin survived her by 10 years and died on November 18, 1877. The founding of the Nagel-Schmidtjan Foundation was initiated in 1877 by Mayor Gustav Struckmann and in February 1879 by the King approved. The buildings were erected in 1880 and move into immediately. Until the foundation's assets were lost in the years of inflation , the apartments were given free of charge, after which a small tax had to be paid for their use.

After the Second World War, the purpose of the foundation was abolished by the city and the houses were transferred to normal tenancy law, but they remained very inexpensive due to the very simple furnishings; Until the renovation in the early 1980s, the rent was around DM 35  per house. With a council resolution of May 21, 1979, the municipal foundations, and thus also the Nagel-Schmidtjan Foundation, were merged into the newly established municipal Friedrich Weinhagen Foundation . In 2002 the residential complex was sold and the proceeds were used for social work.

literature

  • Theresia Schlordt: The “Seven Brothers House”. In: Hildesheimer Volkshochschule eV (Hrsg.): Around the Galgenberg. Searching for traces in a Hildesheim district. Lax, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-8269-6260-8 , pp. 153-158.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anke Twachtmann-Schlichter: City of Hildesheim (= monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Vol. 14.1. Publications of the Lower State Office for Monument Preservation ). Niemeyer, Hameln 2007, pp. 242, 282.
  2. ↑ Architectural biographies : Schwartz, Gustav Emil. Online database of architects and artists directly related to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902), accessed on December 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Theresa Schlordt: The "Seven Brothers House" ( Memento of December 27, 2017 Internet Archive ). In: Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung in June 2003.
  4. ↑ Hildesheimer Presse of February 3, 1953 (published from 1949 to 1974). Quoted from: history. Website of the Seven Brothers residential complex ( memorial from November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 38.9 ″  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 49.7 ″  E