Wedekindplatz (Hanover)

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Wedekindplatz

The Wedekindplatz in Hannover is a space-like extension of already in the early days of the German Empire created in the 19th century Wedekindstraße yet star-shaped starting and ending point of the roads Flüggestraße , Droste Road and The Stone Riede . The square lies on the border of the two districts List and Oststadt and at the same time forms the almost central center of a listed building ensemble . The architectural gem is popularly known as " Little Paris " .

History and description

View from Eilenriede through Wedekindstrasse towards Wedekindplatz , in the foreground on the left the Villa Hindenburg at the time ; 1900
postcard number 54961 from Stengel & Co.

In retrospect, long remained unclear whether Wedekindstraße and Wedekindplatz its name allegedly after long-established Hanoverian class family had received to the example of even the time of the Electorate of Hanover -born pastor of the Neustädter Kirche St. Johannis David Ludwig Christoph Wedekind (* 29th May 1784 in Kirchwehren ; † February 17, 1840 in Marklohe ) counted. The city archivist Helmut Zimmermann , however, kept the time of the Kingdom of Hanover near the residence of working garden Cossacks Johann Heinrich Wedekind (* around 21 February 1792 in ostrich Furth  ;? † 11 October 1867 in Hanover) as a name more likely, because the Hanoverian Geschichtsblätter had In 1914 it was described that Wedekindstrasse “[...] passed over the former property at Am Holzgraben 2 , which was leased from a gardener Wedekind in the 1950s, the house was still popularly called Wedekinds after his death House."

After the village of List had been incorporated into Hanover together with the villages of Vahrenwald , Hainholz and Herrenhausen in 1890 and 1891 , the city was able to gain the building areas urgently needed for the expanding population in the course of ongoing industrialization .

From 1892 onwards, the city of Hanover had a district built between the - today - Lister Meile (the former Celler Heerstraße) and the Bödekerstraße, which was planned as a boulevard , with Wedekindplatz as its quiet center. Wedekindstrasse was laid out from 1894, and on Wedekindplatz, which was only officially named later, in 1907, representative commercial buildings and sophisticated residential developments were built. The majority of the buildings erected in this area emerged as speculative, four-storey apartment buildings with rear-facing wings with high property utilization. Often, additional living spaces were also planned in the roof, so that the roof areas around Wedekindplatz were covered with small houses and roof houses, the corner buildings also with tower-like extensions.

House facade with yellow clinker bricks and red shaped bricks on Wedekindplatz

Facing bricks were mainly used as the material for the facades around the square, decorated with rich and three-dimensional stucco. According to the development of the late historicism with neo - Neumanierismus , Neo-Baroque and also occasionally Gothic Revival were rare, pure fronts facing bricks as in the Droste Road 1 , 4 and 6 built. While the building in Steinriede 1 was divided by bricks, number 9 was given a plastered facade instead. Elements of Art Nouveau in the street were designed in the younger houses number 7 and 8 from 1904.

Overall, the buildings were not least in the quarter through bay windows and risalits by formed plastic. Its alignment on Wedekindplatz, the uniform design of the facades and their proportions with the two turret-like corner bay windows that extend into the roof zone reflect the roundness of the square to this day, which, with its predominantly well-preserved building fabric and the radiating streets, is an original street route of the late 19th century Century presented.

By extending Wedekindstrasse to what was then Celler Strasse in 1900, through traffic moved into Wedekindplatz, initially intended as a quiet zone, which was only given its current official name in 1907.

The building at Wedekindplatz 3 attracted national attention in the late 1970s, after the later Chancellor Gerhard Schröder founded a law firm there in 1978 with Hela-Rischmüller-Pörtner, Klaus-Dieter Kater and Dietrich Buschmann. The news magazine Der Spiegel reported in 1988 on secret service operations after observations by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution had taken place in front of Wedekindplatz 3, where the then SPD opposition leader in the Lower Saxony state parliament was still operating his office at the time.

Banners from residents on the square against tree felling

The square was also the location of one of the first organic-vegetarian-vegan café restaurants in the Lower Saxony state capital, which closed in 2016.

In 2011 the Vahrenwald-List district council decided to convert the square in order to make it more attractive and clearer by 2019. Against the plans to fell tall old robinia in the course of the renovation, the community of interests "Wedewipfel" formed from the residents. At the beginning of 2017, before the renovation work began, she hung the banner designed by the light artist Franz Betz with the rhyme "In summer shade, in winter light, our Wedewipfel don't soften!"

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Wedekindplatz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Wedekindstrasse and Wedekindplatz , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 259
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Quartier around Wedekindplatz , 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. 173f .; as well as List in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, pp. 12-15
  3. ↑ Business people reject the redesign of Wedekindplatz in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: The development after incorporation / The western area, 1890–1914 , in: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ... , p. 172
  5. ^ Lutz Hachmeister : Hanover. A German Center of Power , 1st edition, Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2016, ISBN 978-3-421-04705-2 and ISBN 3-421-04705-7 ; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ oV : "tryst in my apartment" / Alleged intelligence operations against the Lower Saxon opposition leader Gerhard Schroeder have become in Hanover a political issue. Did the Albrecht government have a 50-page dossier prepared in 1986 on the married life of the top SPD man? As a witness assures SPIEGEL, has Schröder's house - password “Crow's Foot” - been observed? Police leadership and the protection of the Constitution deny: “Pure nonsense.” Article in the news magazine Der Spiegel from September 5, 1988, last accessed on January 5, 2017
  7. ↑ Wolfram Hänel , Ulrike Gerold : Where List and Oststadt meet / Wedekindplatz , in this: Hanover - under the tail and the corner. Where the wild Welfs live. 66 favorite places and 11 pubs , 1st edition, Meßkirch: Gmeiner, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8392-1705-4 and ISBN 3-8392-1705-9 ; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Mario Moers: Plans for Wedekindplatz: More trees, more parking spaces in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from November 11, 2016
  9. ^ Uwe Janssen: residents protest for trees at Wedekindplatz in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from January 18, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '8.8 "  N , 9 ° 44' 58.6"  E