Steller Strasse 15 (Isernhagen)

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The former rectory and home of the Jünger family at Steller Strasse 15 in Kirchhorst , south side

Steller Straße 15 is the address of the listed former rectory in the Isernhagen district of Kirchhorst . The building, erected at the end of the 19th century, is to the west of the Kirchhorster cemetery with its St. Nikolai chapel and was the setting for stories not only from the family of the writer Ernst Jünger .

History and description of the building

The rectory, which was built around 1894 at about the same time as the Kirchhorst elementary school opposite the cemetery , shows itself to be the type of representative residential building that has increasingly appeared since the beginning of the 1880s thanks to its juxtaposition of a two-storey eaves residential building with an adjoining utility wing at the rear . Only the orientation of the front building, which is perpendicular to the ridge line of the service wing towards the street, shows that the building was planned as a representative municipal building from the start .

At the time of National Socialism and in the year of the beginning of the Second World War , the writer Ernst Jünger moved into the empty rectory with his wife Gretha and his then ten-year-old son "Ernstel". While Ernst Junger moved in the same year in the war and until 1944, first in France then in Caucasus fought, was opposed his son Ernstel - now a teenager - against the regime of the National Socialists , was it in a prison camp housed and died in 1944 at the Front in Italy .

Also in 1944 - after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20 - Ernst Jünger threatened to be involved in the subsequent purge actions. In the end, however, he was only released from the Wehrmacht and was able to retire to his study in Kirchhorst - his "clear weather hermitage".

During the war, Ernst Jünger was still revising his diary entries in his study at Steller Strasse 15 , and noted his precise observations of the air raids on Hanover in his Kirchhorster sheets . Meanwhile, his wife Gretha led their daily struggle in their " Ark " - as she called her house - often interrupted by the shots of the downed near defensive salvos of Flakhelfer and runaways in the earth bunker . After the invasion of the US troops in 1945, the soldiers were quartered on the ground floor of the building . Soon up to fifty people were “living” on the upper floor.

Ernst Jünger's family lived in Kirchhorst until 1948.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the ground floor was used as a kindergarten and Ernst Jünger's former study was used privately.

In the nearby church cemetery , the initials J. B. carved into the trunk of a beech tree a generation ago and the Roman numerals XXXIX are a reminder of the writer Ernst Jünger and the year 1939.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Steller Straße 15  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Carolin Krumm : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony , vol. 13, part 2: Hanover region, northern and eastern part. With the cities of Burgdorf, Garbsen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Neustadt am Rübenberge, Sehnde, Wunstorf and the communities of Burgwedel, Isernhagen, Uetze and Wedemark , Braunschweig; Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 2005, ISBN 3-8271-8255-7 , p. 244 and ö.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Cornelia Kuhnert (text), Günter Krüger (photos): The clear weather cell in the rectory. Writing and life stage of Ernst Jünger . In: 111 places around Hanover that you have to see. emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-707-7 and ISBN 3-95451-707-8 , pp. 88f.
  3. ↑ Heinz Koberg : Kirchhorst: The fourth merger , in ders .: Our Isernhagen. Pictures and stories from a community. 10 years after the administrative and territorial reform , 1st edition, ed. from the Isernhagen community, Isernhagen: Isernhagen community, 1984, pp. 74–83; here: p. 82f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '42.2 "  N , 9 ° 53' 53.8"  E