Hanau armory

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The armory in 1912
Facade and floor plan
Paradeplatz with armory and infantry barracks (today tax office)
Left the armory - gouache by Louis Kolitz

The armory in Hanau was a baroque building on the former parade and today's Freiheitsplatz in Hanau . It was badly damaged in World War II and the ruins were torn down in 1953/54.

history

The building originally served as the hunting arsenal of the hunting lodge built in 1740 in Harreshausen near Babenhausen . After the completion of the parade ground, Landgrave Wilhelm IX. von Hessen-Kassel , at that time regent in Hanau, dismantled the building there and rebuilt it in 1782 on the northeastern edge of the square. The western narrow side was soon extended by a main guard . In addition to being used as an arsenal, armory and guard, the "wolf" was also kept here, a whipping ram for the public execution of corporal punishment . Further renovations took place in 1898, 1901 and 1909. In 1935/36 the armory was converted into a fire station.

The armory was badly damaged in the air raid on Hanau on March 19, 1945 , but the outer walls were still standing, so that there was a possibility of rebuilding. Against the objection of the Hanau History Association and despite the advocacy of the state curator, Karl Nothnagel , the listed building was demolished at the turn of the year 1953/54, the rubble was used to pave the road in Bruchköbel .

building

The armory replaced an earlier building of this type that had existed as part of the Hanau city fortifications in the middle roundabout of the southern old town fortifications . The new armory was built near it in the area between today's roundabout on Nordstrasse (Hanau) and the bus station. It was an elongated structure with an articulated substructure. On top of it sat a high mansard roof , which gave the building a typical baroque appearance. The facade was emphasized by pilaster strips and a flat gable in the middle. Inside were mostly halls with double the room height, only in the western part in the area of ​​the attached main guard was there a subdivision into smaller rooms.

literature

  • 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , pp. 278-281, esp. No. 428.
  • Gerhard Bott : Castles and public buildings in the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein : New Magazine for Hanau History 2015, p. 35ff. (here especially p. 55f.).
  • Heinrich Bott : The old town of Hanau. A memorial book for the 650th anniversary of the old town of Hanau. Ed .: Hanau History Association. Hanau 1953, plate 36.
  • Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Walk through the old Hanau. With photographs by Franz Stoedtner. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, ISBN 3-8313-1498-5 , p. 34.

Web links

Commons : Zeughaus (Hanau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Schaffer-Hartmann: Walk through the old Hanau. Gudensberg-Gleichen 2006, p. 34.
  2. ↑ a b 675 years old town Hanau. Festschrift for the city anniversary and catalog for the exhibition in the Historical Museum of the City of Hanau am Main , ed. from the Hanauer Geschichtsverein e. V., Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-87627-242-4 , pp. 278-281, esp. No. 428.
  3. ^ Karl Ludwig Krauskopf: 150 Years of the Hanau History Association. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 33, 1994, p. 249.
  4. ^ Karl Ludwig Krauskopf: 150 Years of the Hanau History Association. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 33, 1994, p. 257.
  5. ↑ For the older building see Michael Müller: Construction and significance of the Hanau Fortress in the Thirty Years War. In: Hanauer Geschichtsverein (ed.): The Thirty Years War in Hanau and the surrounding area. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 45 , 2011, ISBN 978-3-935395-15-9 , pp. 116f. u. Fig. 7.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 6.8 ″  E