Turret (Gehrden)

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The turret is a monument in the city of Gehrden in the Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The former syringe house has served as a restaurant since 1976 .

The turret restaurant

history

In the former community of Gehrden in 1909 the previous compulsory fire brigade was replaced by the newly founded volunteer fire brigade Gehrden. The equipment with two fire engines , hoses, ladders, fire hooks and fire buckets was taken over. The building on Steinweg on the corner of the Steintor, which was used to house the equipment, was expanded into a syringe house in 1910 by adding a hose and riser tower .

Instead of the previous equipment with fire engines, the Gehrden fire brigade received its first fire engine in 1959 . This only just fit into the old syringe house. In 1962, the fire brigade received a modern fire station on Nordstrasse on the other side of the stone gate , which in turn was replaced by a more spacious new building in 2009.

The old syringe house was not immediately demolished because the property belonging to the city seemed too small for a new building.

restaurant

The tower of the turret in the side view

The Gehrden businessman Walter Meyer finally had the idea of accommodating a bar in the syringe house . The renovation and remodeling work took about ten months. The base and the sandstone arch in the interior were sandblasted and sealed. The color design of the walls was based on analyzed paint residues.

The four-storey half - timbered tower built in 1910 and the historicist castle- style facade on the street front made the listed building an eye-catcher at the northern entrance to the city center. A section of the Steinweg, the former main thoroughfare of Gehrden, had meanwhile become a pedestrian zone . The turret is on the rest of the traffic-calmed area.

The interior of the syringe house had an area of ​​48 m². After the installation of sanitary facilities, kitchen and cold room, 25 m² remained for the dining room . In this area there were 32 seats and about twice as many standing places in front of the counter. The turret opened on April 4, 1976. The atmosphere created by the narrow space and innovative advertising campaigns for its time attracted the public.

See also

literature

  • Rainer Piesch: Restaurants in Gehrden , 2017

Web links

Commons : Türmchen (Gehrden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chronicle of the Gehrden local fire department. www.feuerwehr-gehrden.de, November 23, 2008, accessed on April 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ingo Rodriguez: The demolition of the former fire station begins. www.neuepresse.de, August 19, 2015, accessed on April 9, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Ingo Rodriguez: The turret: From the syringe house to the cult pub. www.haz.de, March 28, 2016, accessed April 9, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Rainer Piesch: Turrets. www.gehrdener-ansichten.de, accessed on April 9, 2018 .
  5. ^ City of Gehrden urban redevelopment center: master plan. Appendix pp. 8-14 pdf (3.59 MB); accessed on March 23, 2015
  6. ↑ Dirk Wirausky: The syringe house becomes the turret. www.haz.de, March 31, 2017, accessed April 9, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 53.7 "  N , 9 ° 35 ′ 56.2"  E