Haus Mohrmann
Haus Mohrmann stands on a corner in Hanover's Nordstadt. Karl Mohrmann, a professor at the Technical University of Hanover since 1894, built the house for his family between 1899 and 1900. It belongs to an ensemble by the same architect, in the tradition of the Hanover School of Architecture.
The neogothic style shows in brown and green glazed bricks, and a tower rises at the corner. The Second World War almost completely destroyed the building. A housing shortage forced a temporary repair in the late 1940s, and the tower went back up only to roof level. The once ornate gable ended up as plain plaster.
In 2011 Mohrmann's descendants launched a restoration led by the architect Thomas Ceglarek. His team worked from the original plans kept in the city archives and recreated the lost decorative elements. The project added modern living units while keeping the historical features. The nearby street took the name Mohrmannstraße after his death in 1927, and the house keeps his face in a relief portrait.
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