Kurhaus Colonnade (Wiesbaden)

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The Kurhaus Colonnade and the Bowling Green (2008), in front the Theater Colonnade
The Kurhaus Colonnade to the north
The theater colonnade to the south with the Hessian State Theater
Theater colonnade, the Kurhaus in the back left

The Kurhaus Colonnade in Wiesbaden is 129 m long and is the longest columned hall in Europe. It was built in 1826/27 by Heinrich Jacob Zengerle .

The building led as a covered colonnade path to what was then the “Cursaal” and at the same time served to accommodate shops for the spa public. Up until the completion in 1827, the upscale shops were housed in open colonnades of the old Kurhaus, which faced the portico on both sides . The northern "Old Colonnade" only got its southern counterpart in 1839, the "New Colonnade" (architect: Architect Carl Faber). After the completion of the New Royal Court Theater in 1892-94, the building was supplemented with a representative neo-baroque central pavilion with a portico as a theater entrance and henceforth called the "Theater Colonnade".

Since then, the three buildings have enclosed the central square of the Kurviertel of Wiesbaden on three sides. Around the bowling green , a rectangular square with two cascade fountains, very similar colonnades are grouped on its long sides and across it the new Kurhaus , built between 1905 and 1907 . The forerunner building, the first Kurhaus based on the design by Christian Zais , together with the colonnades, the parallel avenues of plane trees and the two basins, formed a classical ensemble , to which the former Theaterplatz (today: Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz ) on the other side of Wilhelmstraße belonged to.

Renamed to Brunnenkolonnade

In 1937 the Kurhaus Kolonnade was redesigned into a "fountain colonnade" in connection with the construction of a thermal water network . For this purpose, a 1.5 km long line lined with porcelain was laid. In order to allow a view of the flower slope of the Paulinenschlösschen , the north wall was removed and replaced by columns. The new short drink center was now the second serving place for the boiling fountain water.

The fountain colonnade, which was destroyed in World War II, was reopened in April 1952. In doing so, it replaced the koch fountain drinking facility that was only reopened in 1949 , the entire facility of which was preserved but neglected. Before the reopening, the entire fountain colonnade was glazed.

After renewed renovation, the eastern part of the Kurhaus Colonnade now houses the small game ( slot machine ) of the Wiesbaden casino , while the large game is housed in the Kurhaus . In the western head there is a trendy restaurant, the main part is used for events. The thermal water outlet is no longer used.

Theater colonnade

The southern theater colonnade is still open. Here you will find the main entrance to the Great House, a passage to the theater foyer and the entrance to the Small House and Studio. There are also a few small, exclusive shops connected. The central pavilion of the theater colonnade, which had a different architectural style, was torn down in 1937/38 and replaced by a new one that was based on the architecture of Zengerle and Faber. After war damage in February 1945, this middle section was restored almost unchanged in the post-war period.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sigrid Russ (ed.): State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse, Cultural Monuments in Hesse, Volume I.1 - Historische Fünfeck, page 35
  2. ↑ Jörg Jordan: In the shadow of Napoleon: State building in Nassau and urban development in Wiesbaden, Regensburg 2014, Schnell & Steiner, page 252

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Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 44 ″  E