Schopenhauerstraße 28, Hannover, Single-family residence in Kleefeld district, Hannover, Germany.
Schopenhauerstraße 28 is a residential building in Hannover's Kleefeld district featuring a mansard roof and raised ground floor. The structure stands out for its large windows and thoughtful interior arrangement, with living areas on the ground level and private bedrooms distributed across the upper levels.
Walter Liebrecht, a senior forester in the Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, was elected Landesforstmeister for the Province of Hannover in 1923. That same year he commissioned Paul Bonatz, architect of Hannover's Stadthalle, to build this family house near the Eilenriede; it was completed by 1924. Bonatz gave it the character of a forest house, following the Stuttgart School.
The house's name comes from Walter Liebrecht, the provincial forest master who had it built in 1923–24. Its forest-house character is a deliberate reference to his office, and the Stuttgart School architect Paul Bonatz gave it a horizontal emphasis with rows of windows and a long mansard roof. In 1929 the German Dendrological Society listed "Frau Liebrecht, Landesforstmeister" at Schopenhauerstrasse 8.
The building is located near Eilenriede forest and is easily accessible from the street. Visitors should note that the raised ground floor is immediately apparent upon arrival, and the overall design is best appreciated from an external viewpoint.
The Rotary Club Hannover, dissolved in 1937, continued meeting informally at Haus Liebrecht during World War II. There the physician Karl Westphal first reported his experiences at the Battle of Stalingrad, unaltered by Nazi war propaganda.
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