Summer Bridge (Hanover)

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In the extension of the horse street : the summer bridge at the small scissor grinder house in front of the horse pond (left) at the Beginenturm and the old town hospital (right);
Postcard number 24 , anonymous, around 1900

The summer bridge in Hanover was a bridge over the Leine , first constructed in the 17th century , which connected the old town of Hanover at the height of the Begin Tower initially with the so-called Leine Island "Little Venice" and also with the Calenberger Neustadt . The head of the demolished summer bridge was replaced in the course of the street Am Hohen Ufer at the level of the Pferdestrasse by a medieval stylized viewing platform with a view of the opposite, "gently sloping, green Leibnizufer ".

history

The viewing platform in front of the Begin Tower during the old town flea market in spring 2014

Since the Middle Ages, the oldest known bridge crossing in Hanover has been found between the Gallentor at the Roßmühle on the one hand and the former Lauenrode Castle on the other. This bridge is said to have been constructed as a drawbridge for defensive purposes. In the middle of the Thirty Years' War , the armory was built - again for defense purposes - and the Roßmühle street became a dead end. Therefore, in 1646, a new wooden bridge for pedestrians was built further south. It mainly served the Princely Governor Friedrich Schenck von Winterstädt , who lived in the court of the ducal Vogts Friedrich Molinus and the later court of Count Ernst von Platen in the Bäckerstrasse . The construction of the bridge, he could at night in the Leineschloss or out of reach without the guard having to be opened until the Leintor.

“Hanover Old Town , Inselbrücke”, but actually the view only over the summer bridge and through Inselstrasse to the Inselbrücke in the direction of the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis ;
Postcard No. 446 from Georg Kugelmann, 1907
A stone embedded in the bank fortification with an inscription and the year 1684
View from the banks of the Calenberger Neustadt to the former summer bridge to the Leine island "Little Venice" (right);
Postcard No. 47 , collotype , around 1900
The so-called “Three Bridge View” from the Leintor Bridge over the former summer bridge at the city hospital (right) to the Marstall Bridge and on to the Goethe Bridge (in the background);
Colored postcard, anonymous, around 1900
View of the northern tip of the Leine island "Little Venice" ; the summer bridge on the left, the Inselbrücke on the right along the Inselstrasse , in the foreground the Gasthaus Inselburg on the now listed Leinemauer;
monochrome postcard, anonymous, around 1900

From 1680 onwards, Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg had 42 houses opposite the Leineschloss on the Leineinsel, in which mainly dyers and tanners lived and worked, demolished and - after the ramparts to the left of the Leine had been leveled and a new road had been built - in to be rebuilt in the following two years. In order to make this Neue Straße in the Calenberger Neustadt better accessible, the Duke had the old summer bridge relocated to the northern part of the Leineinsel at the height of the Begin Tower. According to the Hanoverian chronicler Johann Heinrich Redecker, the new “summer bridge” was completed in 1682, but now more stable and wide enough for horses and carriages.

Both the Summer Bridge and the over the island road following on the other side of the line island Island Bridge were recreated repeatedly in the years 1818 and 1861, most recently with iron straps.

Directly below the former summer bridge, a stone with the inscription was embedded in the walled bank reinforcement

"Johann Eggers Senior / Georg Schrader [?] Fides [?] Anno MDCLXXXIV ..."

After the devastating air raids on Hanover during the Second World War , the still functional but "collapsing" summer bridge was demolished in 1956 when Heinz Wolff was rebuilding the promenade along the Leine .

In 2012, the Association for Hannoversche Stadtbaukultur intended to rebuild the former scissors-grinding house , which had stood directly on the Sommerbrücke until the Second World War, a request that the city of Hanover rejected, not least for reasons of monument protection .

Redesign

In the course of the inner-city renovation concepts under the heading Hannover City 2020 + , an architecture competition was announced at the beginning of the 21st century , for which several plans for redesigning the area around the former summer bridge were submitted. The first prize was won by a design by Kellner Schleich Wunderling, architects + urban planners in collaboration with Nagel, Schonhoff + Partner, landscape architects-urban planners , according to which the area was created by stairs and ramps and, above all, by a " ford " -like, very low bridge Above all, the middle and lower levels on the water of the Leine should be made more tangible again. The bridge is also intended to re-establish the cross-links between the old town and Calenberger Neustadt.

literature

  • Georg Christian Ludolph Meyer : Description of the leash, the resulting water floods and the city water works, designed in 1795 by Camerar: Meyer , manuscript in the city ​​archive of Hanover
  • Arnold Nöldeke : Summer Bridge. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. 1: Region of Hanover, Issue 2: City of Hanover , Hanover 1932, p. 720f.
    • Reprint: Wenner Osnabrück, 1979. Part 1: Monuments of the “old” city area of ​​Hanover (incorporated until January 1, 1870), ISBN 3-87898-151-1
  • Joachim Ganzert , Gregor Janböck: For the rehabilitation of Hanover's topographical / historical center - not “edge of center” ， but “center”! - Therefore: build bridges instead of piercing the city! , in this: Hanover's “crazy” center. Principles and specifics about urban building culture (= contributions to architecture and cultural history , vol. 12), Berlin: Jovis, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-426-3 and ISBN 3-86859-426-4 ; Table of contents as a PDF document

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Arnold Nöldeke: Summer Bridge
  2. ↑ a b c Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Leineinsel "Little Venice". 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. 396f.
  3. ↑ a b c Keyword Sommerbrücke In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 63, 243; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Helmut Knocke : On the high bank. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 24f .; Preview over google books
  5. ^ Christian Ludwig Albrecht Patje : How was Hanover? Or: fragment from the previous state of the residence city of Hanover , Hanover: Gebrüder Hahn, 1817, p. 77; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Photo of the stone with the inscription
  7. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Uferpromenade. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 79
  8. ^ Conrad von Meding: ... dispute over half-timbered house on the Leineufer ... , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of January 4, 2012, last accessed on February 20, 2017
  9. ↑ Hanne Lahde-Fiedler (Red.), Juliane Schonauer, Benjamin Will: Leineraum. In: Hannover City 2020+. The concept , ed. by the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Building Department in cooperation with the press and public relations department in the Lord Mayor's Office, Hanover: LHH, 2011, p. 52ff.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 17.9 "  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 51.4"  E