Catholic club house Treviris
The Catholic Club House Treviris - also called the Catholic Club House Treviris or simply Treviris for short - was a monumental secular building that stood in Trier on Jakobstraße . In its place is the so-called Treviris Passage today . In front of the complex is one of the central stops in the Trier bus network . The building, which was built as a Catholic clubhouse from 1895, was demolished in 1974. Some structural elements were retained and integrated into the new building.
history
At the place of the club house, before it was built, there was the property of a wealthy Trier family of lay judges , which was first mentioned in 1232 as "platea domini Jakobi" and probably comprised several buildings and courtyards. It was named after the mayor Jakob. Jakobstrasse still bears the family's name today.
In 1895, under the leadership of the lawyer Dr. Damian Goertz influential and respected Trier together citizens to the corporation to establish "Catholic clubhouse Treviris". Their aim was "to provide accommodation to the existing Catholic associations here, especially those with social activity, if they do not have a home, and to promote their purposes." It was planned from the beginning to build a building similar to the English People Palace Houses to build. To finance the project, an inn and a wine shop were operated at Jakobstrasse 29 .
In the founding year, the first renovation work was carried out under the direction of the district architect Eberhard Lamberty , so that Bishop Michael Felix Korum was able to consecrate the house in 1896. Mayor Karl de Nys was invited to the inauguration ceremony as the only secular representative . Two years later, on July 10, 1898, the foundation stone for the Treviris hall building was laid, the plans of which were provided by the Berlin architect August Menken . Peter Görgen and Eberhard Lamberty were also involved in the construction .
As early as 1899, the club house had an autonomous electrical supply, although the first power station in Trier did not open until 1902.
In 1933, the sponsor of the Treviris Catholic Association was forced by the NSDAP to delete the word "Catholic" from the company . Otherwise it would have been boycotted by the party. The then conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is reported to have sworn at the time that he would never come to Trier again because the hall was not sold out.
After the city theater in Neustraße was destroyed in World War II, the Treviris served as a replacement venue from 1947. The move was completed in 1946. The building had this function until at least 1958. In 1968 there were two extremely contradicting events: an international Marx rally of the socialists and a CDU state party conference at which Helmut Kohl was re-elected as state chairman.
Nevertheless, the time of large societies in the clubhouse was over. The high maintenance and renovation costs could no longer be covered from the proceeds of the events, especially since the theater moved to the smaller Bischof-Korum-Haus due to the decreasing number of visitors. Towards the end, the club house's stock corporation was heavily indebted. Attempts and efforts to get the city administration to support the stock corporation or to acquire the house for event purposes failed because of their lack of interest.
Operations in the Treviris clubhouse ended as early as 1970. In 1974 - when Trier was just a model city in the European Monument Protection Year - the hall building was finally demolished, the remaining buildings were demolished in 1982. This was viewed critically by the population, because as the New Trier Yearbook of 1974 also wrote, there were hardly any publicly usable halls in Trier at the time. In addition, "the Treviris was in its kind a monument of its time". The city administration, however, the demolition was probably convenient for the plans to expand Trier car-friendly and supposedly modern, even if this is still denied today. As a replacement for the loss of the Treviris, the Europahalle was opened on the Viehmarktplatz in 1977 , the construction of which corresponds to the zeitgeist of the time.
Today only the entrance portal and parts of the Art Nouveau wall , which surrounds an area with new buildings, in which mainly residential and commercial buildings are located, remain of the clubhouse .
architecture
The building complex built from 1895 onwards consisted of several individual buildings that stretched along Jakobstrasse (house numbers 29–31). Around 1900 a fence was added. The main building was characterized above all by its three-storey and three-axis construction and its internal structure via two simple cornices and reduced corner pilasters .
House number 28
The building had a neo-renaissance facade. It was divided into two parts with two different ridge heights. It had a curved gable on one side and a tower on the other. In addition, it had two separate entrances, each with a different style. In this way, consideration was given to the existing neighboring buildings. The wine shop was in the left wing of the building and a library in the right wing . A portal building was in front of the complex on the right. It has been preserved to this day and was placed in front of the modern building. At the main entrance there was a monumental portal structure , which was surrounded by a fence equipped with a gate and a gate.
House number 29
Of the buildings bought by the association along Jakobstrasse, only the middle one remained. It dates from 1800 and had a simply structured, two-storey classicist facade with a stern entrance portal. On the courtyard side, neo-Gothic architectural elements were integrated into the facade . The ground floor of the building was used as a restaurant and tasting room for the wine shop. On the floor above there were several common rooms. A poor replica of this building with missing entrance steps and never built side facades was erected on Stockplatz in 1985 .
House number 30
The building with number 30 was also erected around 1900, probably instead of a previous building. The two-storey building was exactly five meters behind the rest of the evacuation buildings on Jakobstrasse. This setback, which existed as early as the 11th century, enabled the architect to design a facade with large-format windows that was detached from the neighboring buildings, which indicated semi-public use. On the first floor there were two halls for the Catholic workers' association. On the upper floor there were rooms for the Catholic apprentice association. The areas were later used for gastronomy purposes.
Hall construction
The main element of the complex was the historicizing hall building. In the Festschrift of the Catholic Association of Treviris for the music festivals of the cities of Trier, Coblenz, Saarbrücken and St. Johann on May 20 and 21, 1900 it is described as follows:
“Even when developing and establishing the new project, far-sighted perspectives were used. The ingenious plan of the government architect Menken in Berlin was chosen from among many and carried out by the same. The new building is modern in style and made of the finest materials. The area of the building is 1569 square meters, that of the property is 6300 square meters. The concert hall has an area of 1250 square meters with a volume of 11000 cbm and can comfortably accommodate 2500 people. "
The hall construction stood out from the then urban structure of Trier. With the clever placement of the hall building in the middle of the large property, however, the impressive size of the building was hardly noticeable for passers-by on the street, because on the one hand it was not directly behind the buildings described above on Jakobstrasse, and on the other hand the building also held up Distance to Moselstrasse, which means that it was largely hidden behind the still existing enclosure and the trees. Only from the horse market could the hall be seen undisturbed, but only the windowless and bare gable wall.
The shape of the hall followed its inner function: the enormous height of the building resulted from the height of the ballroom on the first floor. The facade design also developed from the splendid interior. There were curved gables above two large windows on the second floor, which shaped the façades on both long sides as well as the stair towers rising up in front of the hall wall. On the side facing Moselstrasse there was a covered terrace on the ground floor and the wine salon, glazed with Art Nouveau motifs. The terrace above could also be accessed via an outside staircase. You could also get to the ballrooms from here. Above this terrace, set back on the second floor, was another terrace that was accessible from the galleries of the ballroom. The garden between Saalbau and Moselstrasse was used for gastronomic purposes and had a music pavilion.
Access to the hall building was via a house passage on Jakobstrasse or through the gate that still exists today on Moselstrasse. There were entrances to the building from both sides, as well as an entrance for visitors who drove up to me in carriages or later cars . All three entrances led to a large cloakroom. Next to her there were kitchens and the wine salon on the first floor. From the ground floor a spacious single flight of stairs led up to the first floor to the small ballroom, which could be used as a foyer or, thanks to its retractable partition, for smaller events. Above was the two-storey ballroom with a stage, a large organ and a gallery running around on three sides.
The large ballroom was spanned by a cantilevered three-arched ceiling. The large windows above the gallery enabled optimal natural lighting. The interior was rich in Art Nouveau elements - from the stained glass to the stucco elements to the door panels.
The ballroom was already praised by the press when it opened:
"The interior makes an extremely noble impression and fulfills its purpose of making the visitor happy, both through the form elements used and through the chosen color decorations of the material in an artistically perfect way."
Not only the architecture impressed the press and visitors, but also the acoustics. It was characteristic that there was no “blurring of the sound waves” and the orchestra could be heard equally well in the entire room.
The hall and its premises were used until the end for various events such as concerts, carnival meetings, dance balls, conferences, exhibitions, company parties and wine events.
organ
It is not clear whether the installation of an organ was planned from the start. The musical instrument, equipped with 2,500 pipes, was presented to the public on October 19, 1900. She had built the factory for organ building H. Voit & Sons in Durlach ; it bore the opus number (production number) 896. At that time the organ was seen as an asset to the Trier music scene.
When the Treviris was used as a municipal theater from 1947 to 1949, the organ was relocated in order to achieve a better stage depth. As a result of this relocation, it no longer lived up to its function and concept as a concert organ. As a result, the Späth brothers workshop from Ennetach-Mengen was commissioned to rebuild the organ at its original location. However, in 1970 the concert business was discontinued and not resumed. Before the Treveris was demolished, the organ was given free of charge to the St. Martin branch church in Mückeln.
Wine cellar
Under the Treviris complex is large wine cellars where up to 1,000 were cartload could be stored in drums and more than 250,000 bottles. The wine business experienced a considerable boom after 1900 under the direction of Friedrich Wilhelm Heß and was an important economic source of income. Moselle wines from Treviris were delivered all over the world.
Before the First World War , most of the wines were exported to Russia and North and South America . After 1945, however, marketing and sales shifted more and more to the producers.
literature
- Dominik Heinrich: Homage to the Treviris. 30 years after the ballroom was torn down. In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 2004. ISSN 0077-7765 , pp. 119–132.
- Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Trier Local Association (Ed.): 100 Years Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection. 33 years of the Trier local association. A critical inventory. Trier 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Dominik Heinrich: Homage to the Treviris - 30 years after the ballroom was demolished . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 2004, pp. 119–132.
- ^ Emil Zenz: Street names of the city of Trier: their sense and their meaning . Ed .: Culture Office of the City of Trier. 5th edition. Trier 2006, DNB 455807825 (1st edition 1961).
- ↑ a b c d e f Ing. EH Jakob: On the history of the Treveris organ - Trier organ point: organ and choir music at the cathedral and Constantine - basilica. Tourist attractions such as B. Porta. In: trierer-orgelpunkt.de. May 31, 2009, accessed February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Entry on Former Treviris in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; Retrieved February 3, 2017.
- ↑ a b c City of Trier, old town. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate , Volume 17.1.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2001, ISBN 3-88462-171-8 , S. #.
- ↑ a b Michael Zimmermann: Classicism in Trier. The city and its bourgeois architecture between 1768 and 1848. WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier 1997, ISBN 3-88476-280-X .
- ↑ Treviris (formerly). Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ^ Church - Mückeln parish. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 45 ′ 31.6 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 27.3" E