Sid Auffarth on Hanover’s history
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Sid Auffarth on the 100th: Steintor as an anniversary lecture
Exactly 60 years ago: in 1953 the stone gate, which had been largely destroyed in the war, was rebuilt. The information board shows the new road layout and buildings. In the background the indicator high-rise of today’s Madsack media group.
© Source: Wilhelm Hauschild/Archive of the Historical Museum in Hanover
Hanover. He is regarded as one of the best experts on the history of the city of Hanover: in his next lecture this Tuesday, building historian Sid Auffarth will deal with the centuries-old history of the conversion of the Steintor. It is his 100th – but not the 100th birthday, but the 100th lecture by the dedicated Hanover expert in the Historical Museum. Auffarth himself is only 84 years old.
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Sid Auffarth over the stone gate
After the war, the square was converted to make it suitable for cars as part of Hillebrecht’s “traffic turbine”. But the story is much older. The stone gate was a gateway to the city, barracks were located there, later the classical court architect Laves built, among other things, a beautiful residential building with a roof lantern for the von Meding family, which later took over as the “New Mint”. The lecture will deal with Wallbrecht’s urban redevelopment, the war damage and the recent redevelopment by City Planning Councilor Hillebrecht. It’s about the 1980s attempt by the Storch Ehlers office to install an Italian sense of space, about the Gänseliesel fountain, which is out of place today, and the future obelisk: the next renovation should show the square a luminous stele.
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Auffarth is an entertaining narrator, for whom dates are less important than the stories behind the facades, and for whom words evoke urban figures. The lecture begins on Tuesday, January 24, at 6 p.m. in the Museum am Holzmarkt/Pferdestraße. The lectures usually last about an hour. Admission is free.