Welfengarten

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Laves bridge with lens mount in Welfengarten

The Welfengarten in Hanover 's Nordstadt district is a city park in the style of an English landscape garden . Together with the Great Garden , the Berggarten and the Georgengarten , it belongs to the Herrenhausen Gardens .

Baroque garden at Monbrillant Castle

Montbrillant Castle with garden and Herrenhäuser Allee 1763

1717 was the north mansions Allee the Monbrillant Castle as the residence of Count von Platen built.

The garden artist Ernst August Charbonnier laid out the garden in 1720 in the baroque style . Characteristic elements were the rectangular graft with an absidal end (similar to the one in the Great Garden in Hanover-Herrenhausen) and the strictly axially symmetrical structure of the garden with the dominant central axis.

From 1843 to 1846, with the participation of the leading architect of the Kingdom of Hanover, Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, two pedestrian bridges were built in the palace gardens to cross the former Graft . One bridge has been preserved from it. The castle was demolished in 1857 and rebuilt in Georgsmarienhütte .

Welfenschloss

The Welfenschloss today: seat of the University of Hanover

Between 1857 and 1866 the Welfenschloss was built on the same site , which is surrounded by the Welfengarten and Prinzengarten. Before the completion of the building, Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover after the war of 1866 , so that the palace was never used as intended. After a long vacancy, the palace became the seat of the Technical University in 1879, which was relocated from the center to what was then the outskirts. Today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover emerged from this university .

A bronze horse sculpture designed by Albert Wolff in 1866 has stood in front of the university building since 1879 . It is modeled on his own sculpture of the "group of lion fighters" at the Altes Museum in Berlin . In general, the sculpture is viewed as a figurative representation of the Lower Saxony horse as the heraldic animal of Lower Saxony . The Welfengarten was affected by the Second World War and then rebuilt in a modified form as the campus of the Technical University. In 1961, Ernst August von Hanover, head of the House of Hanover, sold the castle property to the city of Hanover.

literature

  • Nik Barlo Jr., Hanae Komachi, Henning Queren: Herrenhausen Gardens . Rostock: Hinstorff Verlag 2006. Illustrated book (144 pages). ISBN 3-356-01153-7
  • The royal gardens. Glory and splendor of a residence . Edited by Kurt Morawietz. Hanover: Steinbock-Verlag 1963
  • Eugen Horti: The manor garden and its statues. Meaning, symbolism . Bad Münder: Leibniz-Bücherwarte 1985. ISBN 3-925237-00-3
  • Friedrich Lindau: Hanover - the courtly area Herrenhausen. How the city deals with the monuments of its feudal era . With a foreword by Wolfgang Schächen . Munich (among others): Deutscher Kunstverlag 2003. ISBN 3-422-06424-9
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : The rescue of the Herrenhausen Gardens. In: Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Preserve your home, shape your home. Contributions to the 100th anniversary of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony. Hannover 2001. pp. 95-99
  • In: Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch (Ed.): The University of Hanover. Your buildings | Your gardens | Your planning history , Petersberg: Michael Imhoff Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-935590-90-3
    • Günter Nagel : University in Welfengarten , p. 169ff.
    • Michael Rohde: The 300-year history of the Welfengarten , p. 149ff.
    • Rita Seidel: Pictures, Figures, Monuments , p. 105ff.
  • Arnold Nöldeke : The art monuments of the city of Hanover , vol. 1, monuments of the "old" city area of ​​Hanover , Hanover: self-published by the provincial administration, Schulzes bookstore, 1932
  • Eva Benz-Rababah : Welfengarten. 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. 665f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Knocke : Charbonnier. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 84, online via Google books
  2. ↑ landscape architect | Camel Louafi | Sketches and drawings for park landscapes. Retrieved on November 1, 2018 (garden plan of the baroque Welfengarten by Ernst August Charbonnier from 1764).

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '3.1 "  N , 9 ° 43' 1.1"  E