Zeughaus am Hohen Ufer

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To the left of the Begin Tower is the armory as part of the Historical Museum above the horse pond on the Hohen Ufer der Leine ; The Marktkirche can be seen in the background on the right

The armory at the Hohen Ufer in Hannover was the oldest of the territory of the Hanoverian old town on the construction of the line lock following state buildings . The ducal armory, built by the middle of the 17th century for Georg Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , included a remnant of the former city ​​fortifications of Hanover . The massive outer walls that have been preserved were later incorporated into the new building of the Hannover Historical Museum - with heavily modified openings .

history

Coat of arms of Duke Georg Wilhelm, dated 1649
Light installation by the sculptor Joseph Kosuth at the armory; Photo from 2005

After the sovereign , Duke Georg von Calenberg, had designated the city of Hanover as his residence in 1636 in the middle of the Thirty Years War , the magistrate gave him the property north of the Begin Tower in 1639 . Adjacent to this city tower, the ducal master craftsman Welling erected a simple utility building from 1643 to 1649 with almost no architectural decoration : he had two massive , unplastered floors built from the limestone broken on the Lindener Berg , above one made of half-timbered , with a high roof with porticoes was covered. All storeys were originally divided into three aisles with wooden supports .

For a long time, the arsenal served as a warehouse as well as a workshop for military equipment of the Welfs .

At the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , the function of the aging armory was replaced by the new building of the armory on Waterlooplatz . As a result, the older building became the property of the city of Hanover.

View around 1900 along the street Am Hohen Ufer with the former stables (left), in the background the armory with the Begin tower;
Postcard No. 229 from Georg Kugelmann
The armory, shortened from 57 to 36 meters, with three floors and a pitched roof;
Colored postcard No. 1319 B of Wilhelm Hoffmann AG

During the founding of the German Empire in 1887, the old armory was shortened from around 57 meters to a length of 36 meters in order to enable a breakthrough in the Roßmühle street, which had previously been a dead end . For this purpose, the north wall of the armory was rebuilt and the coat of arms of Duke Georg Wilhelm , dated 1649 and presumably by the sculptor Peter Köster , was inserted into it.

In the northern part of the former armory, the municipal loan office soon started its work.

By the air raids on Hannover during the Second World War and the old armory was by aerial bombs of the Allies badly damaged.

In the post-war period , the massive outer walls of the armory - but now with heavily modified openings - were incorporated into the new building of the Historical Museum and today also forms the museum's largest exhibition space.

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Web links

Commons : Zeughaus am Hohen Ufer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Pferdestraße 6 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 178ff .; here: p. 179
  2. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Residenzrezess (contract). 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 , p. 521.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Helmut Knocke: Zeughaus am Hohen Ufer. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 689

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 9 ° 43 ′ 52.8 ″  E