Villa White Thistle

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The villa at the New House, named after its facade decoration, the White Thistle

The Villa Weisse Distel in Hanover , Oststadt , Neues Haus 3 , is a listed villa from the late 19th century, which owes its name to the extremely rich architectural sculpture with the main motif of a white thistle .

History and description

After the architect Heinrich Köhler built his sensational, late classicist , upper -class villa group with neo-renaissance shapes on Schiffgraben around 1870, the garden of the corner building with today's house number 4, the Villa Coppel , named after the banker Simon Coppel , was replaced about a quarter of a century later Largest part separated in order to enable a new villa to be built on what will later be Emmichplatz.

The builder was Senator Gustav Meyer, who, according to the address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden, was both a manufacturer and, together with the partner Heinrich Wilhelm August Otto Schuchardt, owner of the Diedr. Meyer, patent cotton wadding factory at Glockseestrasse 14 was. He stated his private residence at Neuenhaus 3 .

The contractor was the architect Karl Börgemann , according to whose plans a block-like building with a Gothic structure over two main floors was built between 1896 and 1897 . The main front was formulated in yellow brick and light sandstone , the sculptural sculpture was made by the sculptor Wilhelm Engelhard .

The image program of the facade decoration includes a portrait of the client and his wife, the work of the client and references to the transience of people.

In 1904 the building received an extension.

The sculptor Roland Engelhard had also created figures for the building's attic . However, these were lost during the air raids on Hanover during the Second World War . After the severe war damage, the White Thistle was rebuilt in a simplified manner in the post-war period .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The development of the Schiffgraben and related villas , as well as location map 7/09 Oststadt / 10 List , in: Monument topography 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. 42f., 158f .; as well as Oststadt in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 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. 11f.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Emmichplatz 3, 4 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 104
  3. ^ Address book, city and business manual of the royal residence city of Hanover and the city of Linden for the year 1900 , section 1, 3: Alphabetical directory of residents and trading companies , p. 903; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library via the DFG Viewer of the German Research Foundation

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 36.7 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 9.9"  E