Piece foundry (Hanover)
The piece foundry in Hanover , also known as the casting yard , was a property set up in the 18th century for the manufacture of cannons and church bells . The location of this piece foundry was in front of the town's former stone gate .
history
After the end of the Seven Years' War , large parts of the city fortifications of Hanover were demolished at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Soon afterwards, in front of the broken stone gate, on behalf of the state government in front of the new stone gate, the sovereign piece foundry was built between 1782 and 1783 according to plans by the engineer captain Gotthard Christoph Müller . The result was "a beautiful, large, consisting of a main building and two wing buildings", "very appropriately decorated complex" with a spacious forecourt.
Although the Hanoverian citizen Conrad Ernst Bartels had previously offered not only church bells, but also products such as “ fire sprays ”, metal pipes and garden fountains, it was only in Hanover's first address book from 1898 that he was listed as administrator of the piece foundry “in front of the stone gate” while there now the piece caster and chief fireworker Johann Heinrich Bartels created his own works.
During the so-called " French era ", which began on June 5, 1803 with the occupation of Hanover by Napoleon Bonaparte's troops under General Édouard Adolph Mortier and which later continued in the Kingdom of Westphalia , the French confiscated "the beautiful drill" from the piece foundry and took them to Strasbourg .
After the battle of Waterloo and the establishment of the Kingdom of Hanover , the piece foundry was relocated to Stade . The building of the Hanoverian foundry was then mainly used as barracks for the newly formed Hanoverian artillery corps.
Postcard series B. 04 by Georg Kugelmann after a lithograph by Wilhelm Kretschmer
Only after the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover ended and King Ernst August moved into the royal seat of Hanover was the building of the former piece foundry demolished and the artillery barracks at the Steintor built in its place in 1838 .
Illustrations
A sepia - drawings with a lively view of the country's glorious piece of foundry facing the new stone gate in the George Street found itself in the 20th century in the city archives Hannover .
literature
- Arnold Nöldeke : Gießhäuser ... sovereign piece foundry , in this: The art monuments of the province of Hanover , Part 1 : Region Hanover , Issue 2: City of Hanover , Hanover 1932, p. 405-406 (reprint: Wenner Osnabrück, 1979). Part 1: Monuments of the “old” city area of Hanover (incorporated until January 1, 1870), ISBN 3-87898-151-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Wilhelm Lohmann: The former piece foundry or the Gießhof , in ders .: History outline and topographical painting of the royal. Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Hannover or: Brief overview and description of their historical and local peculiarities, as well as the local surroundings and description of their moral and cultural status , Hannover, published by the Helwingschen Hof-Buchhandlung, 1818, pp. 84-85; Digitized via Google books
- ^ A b Arnold Nöldeke: sovereign piece foundry ... (see literature)
- ↑ Vermischte Nachrichten , in: Hanoverian advertisements of all kinds of things, the announcement of which is necessary and useful to the common being. From the year 1778 , Hanover, 1779, column 190-191; Digitized via Google books
- ↑ Ludwig Hoerner : Fireworks actions and bell founders , in which: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , pp. 136, 175f .; here: p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Klaus Mlynek : Napoleonic Wars / Franz. U. prussia. Occupation ... / Kgr. Westphalen
- ^ Klaus Mlynek: Ernst August, King of Hanover , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 111
- ^ Klaus Mlynek: Kasernen , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 339
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 34.3 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 56.5" E