Elevated water tank for the Great Garden in Hanover-Herrenhausen

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The two elongated elevated tanks, which were only broken off in the 1960s (center), west of the Berggarten and north of the page house at the Great Garden of Hanover-Herrenhausen ;
City map Hanover (excerpt) by Pentz and Benefeld, 1807

The elevated water tanks for the Great Garden in Hanover served for centuries to operate the water features in the Great Garden in Herrenhausen . The two elevated tanks were located on the Sandberg north of the page house at the location of the later Werkkunstschule or the later architecture department of Leibniz University on the corner of Berggartenstrasse.

history

After the Guelphs had chosen the Vorwerk in Herrenhausen as the location of their summer residence and had it expanded from 1674, the generation of pressure for the desired water features in the one-level garden turned out to be the greatest technical problem of the Herrenhausen Gardens . Various attempts have been made to remedy this since 1674.

Finally, in the years 1676 to 1677 , the fountain master Marinus Cadart left west of the Berggarten , "on the southernmost dune of the last Ice Age ", which is an elongated ridge from the Klagesmarkt over the Judenkirchhof and the Schneiderberg over the Berggarten to Leinhausen and on to the city ​​cemetery The soldiers erected two elevated tanks. First of all, a 102 × 27 m large basin with a height of about 3 m, sealed with clay and sod and surrounded by earthen walls, followed by a smaller basin of the same type to the east. Due to leaks in the walls, however, a filling height of only 1.80 m was possible. In 1692 the tanks were lined with sandstone according to plans by Johann Friedrich de Münter and the smaller one was also increased to 4.40 m. The two open basins, built from brick blocks and embedded in the ground, could hold a volume of 15,000 m³ of water after another source 24,000 m³ in order to feed the fountains .

The water basins were supplied by pipes made of wood and lead , which were initially brought from Dieckborn in the lordly kitchen garden in Linden , and from 1687 also from the bathing borne ponds on Benther Berg, 8 km away . Between 1706 and 1731, the water art privately constructed by the chief engineer Etienne Maillet de Fourton at Clevertor fed the gardens of the nobility along the Herrenhäuser Allee up to the two elevated tanks in Herrenhausen, in addition to the Parnassus Fountain .

It was not until the post-war period that the elevated tanks were demolished by the municipal building authorities under the guidance of Edwin Hartleb and Alexander Stille in 1959 and 1960, and at the same time the hill, which at that time still consisted of bushes and was trimmed into a square wall, was removed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kurt Morawietz (Ed.): Brilliant Herrenhausen. History of a welfen residence and its gardens , Hanover: Steinbock-Verlag, 1981, pp. 104, 176; limited preview in Google Book search
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  3. ^ Karl Heinrich Meyer: Royal Gardens ... 300 Years of Herrenhausen , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag Schmidt-Küster, 1966, p. 69; limited preview in Google Book search
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  5. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Large garden. 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 , pp. 230-235; here: p. 230.
  6. ↑ Bernd Adam: Herrenhausen: the royal gardens in Hanover. P. 43 (Preview on Google Books). Marieanne von König. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, accessed on April 27, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Bernd Adam: Herrenhausen: the royal gardens in Hanover. P. 47 (Preview on Google Books). Marieanne von König. Wallstein Verlag, 2006, accessed on April 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Helmut Knocke: Water art. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 656; limited preview in Google Book search

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 33.4 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 46.6"  E