Holstentorhalle
The Holstentorhalle is a listed former trade fair and exhibition hall of brick expressionism in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein). In 2007, after extensive renovation, the hall was handed over to the Lübeck University of Music as a practice and teaching building.
history
In 1913, the Lübeck merchant and senator Emil Possehl donated 800,000 marks to the city of Lübeck for a people's house in the immediate vicinity of the Holsten Gate and the salt store . It was to be named Kaiser Wilhelm Volkshaus . Because of the First World War , the construction did not take place at first. The project was not implemented until the 1920s.
The architect and Lübeck senior building officer Friedrich Wilhelm Virck designed the brick hall with a pointed arched roof made of wooden trusses. As the 700-year hall , it was opened in September 1926 for the anniversary celebration of Lübeck's freedom of the Reich , which was only to exist for eleven years, with a craft and trade fair.
Ernst Thälmann gave a speech in the hall in 1929; In 1933, before his emigration , Willy Brandt took part in an anti-fascist campaign under his birth name Herbert Frahm , during which he also appeared as a speaker.
During the time of National Socialism, Nordic celebrations were held in the hall. Grain was stored in 1938. After the end of the Second World War , the hall, which was now called the Holstentorhalle, was used by sports clubs. In the decades that followed, the neglected hall and the green space in front of it were also used by the German Trade Union Federation , which is based in the new trade union building next door , for family celebrations to conclude the May rallies .
In the 1970s, the city of Lübeck considered demolishing it to make room for a department store for the Horten group. In 1981, the citizens' initiative Rettet Lübeck started a nationwide and ultimately successful initiative against the planned demolition. As a consequence, the Holstentorhalle was placed under monument protection in January 1990 . It also served as a concert and event hall until the music and congress hall was completed in 1994 . In 2003 and 2004, the ice sculpture show Ice World was held on the open space in front of the hall , with tent structures covering the hall.
In 2005, the renovation of the interior of the hall began under the direction of the architect Kuno Dannien , the masonry and roof were renovated. The Possehl Foundation made 3.5 million euros available for this. Two floors with rehearsal and choir rooms, music studio and lecture halls were built. The roof structure remained visible in accordance with the monument protection requirements. On April 28, 2007 the Holstentorhalle was handed over to the Conservatory for use.
The hall is owned by the city of Lübeck, the fixtures belong to the state of Schleswig-Holstein as the sponsor of the music academy. The state financed four wings and the information technology equipment with 350,000 euros . The Holstentorhalle is connected to the main complex of the music college on the opposite bank of the Trave via a pedestrian bridge that was completed in spring 2007 and is popularly known as the Professors Bridge.
Side view with stepped gable
Portal with double eagle frieze
Detail of the double eagle frieze made of clinker
Pedestrian bridge to the music college, called "Professorenbrücke"
swell
- Michael Berger: A hall that is no longer a hall in: Lübecker Nachrichten , April 25, 2007, page IX
- Kai Dordowski: Festival for music: Holstentorhalle inaugurated in: Lübecker Nachrichten , 29./30. April 2007, page 27
Individual evidence
- ^ NDR: Tour through the Lübeck Willy Brandts, photo 17
- ↑ Der Baumeister: Journal for Architecture, Planning, Environment 78 (1981), also in Werk, Bauen + Wohnen , ed. from the Federation of Swiss Architects 68 (1981), p. 563
literature
Doris Mührenberg: Defying the storms of time. The Holstentorhalle in the course of its 75 year history in: Lübeckische Blätter 167 (202), pp. 29–31
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 54 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 43" E