Steintorstrasse (Hanover)

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The corner Georgstraße 2a marked in urban at the same time an exposed location in the access Steintorstraße

The Steintorstraße in Hannover is one of the oldest streets in the capital of Lower Saxony. It connects the street Am Marstall with the Georgstraße in what is now the Mitte district .

history

Border stone in the area of ​​the former inner stone gate between the street Am Marstall and the Schmiedestraße;
in April 2011; in the background on the left the confluence with Steintorstrasse

The Steintorstraße is located in the area of ​​the city ​​fortifications of Hanover, which were built for defense purposes in the Middle Ages : on the current open space between Schmiedestraße and the corner of Am Marstall and as an extension of Steintorstraße towards the old town, the citizens of Hanover presumably had what Helmut Plath said before the middle of the 13th Inner stone gate built in the 19th century . This first gate tower built of stone in the course of the Hanover city ​​wall granted - or denied - a passage into the city. The path outside this city gate was first mentioned in 1442 as "Before the Stendore".

Also in the 15th century, the Hanoverian built for fixing the Wall- and grave conditioning in addition - and again in the course of today's Steintorstraße - an external stone gate, which she in 1492 by a kennel reinforced.

In the middle of the Thirty Years War , the access to the Steintor was mentioned in 1623 as "Furm Steinthoer".

With its own name: The "Haus Zieseniss" built until 1914 represents one of the earliest buildings of the "commercial building" type

At the beginning of the Kingdom of Hanover , Steintorstraße was given its current, official name in 1818.

Due to the economic boom during the early days of the German Empire , the image around Steintorstraße and Georgstraße, which previously looked almost rural, changed to a metropolitan character: from the time around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, two listed buildings have been located on Steintorstraße which, in terms of architectural history - in the succession of early modern merchants' houses - represent the earliest stage of the " commercial building" type in Hanover: the Eichhorn house built for Wilhelm Eichhorn in 1890 and the Zieseniss house built between 1913 and 1914 . Both buildings extended in their function over rear buildings to Reitwallstraße . In contrast to the local “party mile” with its clubs, strip bars and pubs, more quiet shops settled in Steintorstraße in 2018, such as hairdressers, a shisha shop, a kebab shop, a glasses shop and a bakery.

The corner building on today's Am Steintor square also dates from the time before the First World War : The house built by Friedrich Hartjenstein in 1910 at Georgstraße 2 "is of great urban significance because of its exposed location on a triangular corner plot ".

In 1986, during excavation work below the sidewalk in Steintorstrasse, the remains of the Steintorzwinger, which had been built almost half a millennium earlier, were found. Wilhelm Hauschild , photographer for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , captured these works in a snapshot at the time.

Web links

Commons : Steintorstraße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e saf: Hanover's streets / A gate made of stone. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , supplement Stadtanzeiger Nord from June 14, 2018, p. 1
  2. a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Steintorstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover . Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 235
  3. a b c Helmut Knocke : Stone gate. 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. 602.
  4. a b Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig : Georgstrasse. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), part 1, volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 68f .; as well as in the middle of the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 3ff.
  5. ^ A b Gerd Weiß: Business and department stores. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover , part 2, vol. 10.2, ... p. 22
  6. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Eichhorn, Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 106 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Steintorstrasse 7 and Steintorstrasse 9 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 201

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '30.4 "  N , 9 ° 44' 0.7"  E