Villa Koehler

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Villa Köhler, built by Heinrich Köhler , inhabited by Paul von Hindenburg
The “Villa v. Hindenburg, Wedekindstr. "; Postcard from an anonymous photographer, around 1911
New buildings at that time Am Holzgraben , in front right the Villa Köhler ; Postcard number 1019 from Karl F. Wunder , around 1900

The Villa Köhler in Hanover is a listed villa in the neo-renaissance style . Among other things, it was the first residence of Field Marshal General and later Reich President Paul von Hindenburg in Hanover and was temporarily called Villa Hindenburg , just like his later Hanover residence . Today the building at Am Holzgraben 1 and Wedekindstrasse 14 and 15 in the Oststadt district is used by the Gundlach construction and housing company and the social learning and communication educational association.

history

The emergence of the streets Am Holzgraben and Wedekindstraße

An old path from the New House to the Lister Tower along the historic wooden trench , which formed the former edge of the Eilenriede here , was officially named Am Holzgraben as early as 1845 . The city ​​of Hanover, which was expanding rapidly at the end of the 19th century, laid Wedekindstrasse in 1894 over a field landscape previously cultivated by garden cossacks . The name was "allegedly after the Hanoverian citizen family Wedekind ," to which about a pastor Wedekind (1784-1840) of the Neustadt church belonged. According to the Hanover history sheets from 1914, however, the naming after the gardener Johann Heinrich Wedekind (* around February 21, 1792 in Straussfurth; † October 11, 1867 in Hanover), according to which the street "ran over the former property Am Holzgraben 2 [ ], which was leased by a gardener Wedekind in the [... 1850s ...], the house was still popularly called Wedekind's house after his death . ”When asked about city ​​tours , the historian Detlef HO Kopmann included his own research the address books of Hanover a naming after the Hanoverian satirist Frank Wedekind definitely out.

The Villa Koehler

At about the same time as the Wedekindstrasse was built through the city of Hanover, the architect and professor of architecture at the later Technical University of Hanover , Heinrich Köhler , made famous at the time for his row of villas on Schiffgraben (former house numbers 13 - 27, today: 55 - 61) , around 1893 his own upper-class residence on the corner of Am Holzgraben. He lived there for almost ten years until his death. The heirs rented the building in the following period. On July 27, 1898, the merchant Gustav Beicke , who lived at Gneisenaustraße 2 , acquired the building and subsequently rented the Bel Etage to the regional director Karl Hugo Müller .

In 1911 General Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg rented the mezzanine floor of the villa. In these later years of the German Empire it was almost a compulsory exercise for the military stationed at the nearby Welfenplatz , for example, such as the Hanover Field Artillery Regiment No. 10 “Scharnhorst” and the First Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 74 “Prince Albrecht” to parade past Hindenburg's apartment with kettledrums and trumpets “in a ringing procession ” when moving out for practice purposes .

Kitchen garbage collectors: During the First World War , teachers paraded their school children in front of Hindenburg and his home ; Postcard from 1915, anonymous photographer
View past the villa through Wedekindstrasse ;
Postcard No. 54961 from Zedler & Vogel

Even after Hindenburg was again "called to the flag" for purposes of war at the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the Field Marshal General took homage to the Hanoverian population who had not been drawn into the field on his birthday . The headline on the back of a postcard from Freiwilligen Kriegshilfe Hannover 1915 read:

"... 4,000 school children from Hanover and Linden , diligent collectors of kitchen waste , bring Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg their best wishes on his 68th birthday and decorate the house with self-made wreaths of wild flowers."

A president of the consistory and a director of the regional court lived above the rented premises in Hindenburg . Another neighbor of Hindenburg at the time was in the neighboring house, for example, the "banker Samuel Oppenheimer , who owned one of the most important banking businesses in Hanover at the time on Prinzenstrasse ." Colonel Count von Lambsdorff and a Colonel General von Bülow lived across from this Oppenheim villa . The former Hanoverian court lady, Princess Friederike Wilhelmine zur Lippe, now resided on the ground floor in the buildings of the rich architect Friedrich Heine , whose parents had previously been simple garden cossacks with real estate . A Major Freiherr von Wangenheim had rented a room on the floor above her .

The Bildungsverein and the Gundlach Group have been using Villa Köhler for adult education since the 1980s .

literature

  • Detlef HO Kopmann: Wedekindstrasse - from the villa district to the thoroughfare. In: Oststadt Journal. Edition February 2007; online , with further, but low-resolution views on the page hannover-oststadt.de , ed. by Eckhard von Knorre, Achim Sohns, Uwe Brennenstuhl (District Information System Hannover-Oststadt), last accessed on February 25, 2013

Web links

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

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Detlef HO Kopmann: Die Wedekindstrasse ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ Gerd Weiß: Eastern side streets of Bödekerstraße. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, Part 1, [Bd.] 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 165, as well as Annex Oststadt. In: List of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological preservation of monuments), as of July 1, 1985. City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 11f.
  3. ↑ Compare for example the picture postcard number 1689 from F. Astholz jun. , for example here on ebay
  4. ↑ Compare, for example, this image and text documentation at Commons
  5. ↑ a b Compare this photo, for example
  6. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Am Holzgraben. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 17.
  7. ^ Klaus Mlynek : incorporations. 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. 153.
  8. ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann: Wedekindstrasse. In: The street names ... p. 259.
  9. ^ Compare page 311 of the digitized address book by the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library
  10. ^ Eva Benz-Rababah : Welfenplatz. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover. P. 667.
  11. ↑ See this front or back of a postcard from 1915 from Wedekindstraße, postmark, however, from 1916.
  12. ↑ Note: According to Detlef HO Kopmann, this was the highest head of the highest administrative authority of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover , today roughly comparable to the head of the regional church office
  13. ↑ Peter Engelke, Udo Husmann, Wolfgang Niess, Ulrich Schröder (Managing Directors): Welcome to the Hanover Educational Association! on the page bildungsverein.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 11.5 ″  E