Warmbüchenviertel
Warmbüchenviertel is an area in the quarter and borough of Mitte in Hanover. The quarter is characterised by insurance companies and other office buildings, but is also an inner city residential area. The name derives from two major streets: Warmbüchenstraße und Warmbüchenkamp.
Layout
Warmbüchenviertel is bounded by the streets Schiffgraben, Marienstraße and Berliner Allee, while the northern limit is formed by the railway. The quarter's main road is Lavesstraße.History
Towards the end of the 1840s, the Hanover city limit was Schiffgraben street, a former canal. At the time Warmbüchenviertel was an extramural agricultural area and known as Kirchwende, which is where Kirchwender Straße gets its name from. Here smallholders cultivated vegetables to sell in the market. The nearest city gate was the Aegidientor, from which the modern day Marienstraße ran eastwards, serving as the way to market. The Gartenkirche stood within Warmbüchenviertel, on Marienstraße from 1746. Its cemetery was the Gartenfriedhof, where Charlotte Kestner was buried, among others.One of the oldest houses in Warmbüchenviertel is the building which is now the headquarters of the charity "Ahlers Pro Arte". It was once owned by the Alfeld textile manufacturer Ahlers and was also the contemporary location of the kestnergesellschaft gallery.
Despite popular protest, a building designed by Hermann Schaedtler was demolished in 2008. It was a monumental building with a round dome, which was the original headquarters of the health insurer AOK. The medical supplier Ärzteversorgung Sachsen-Anhalt is currently building a luxury residential complex with almost 100 apartments on the site. It will be named "Warmbüchenviertel" after the quarter.