Braunschweig city hall
The Stadthalle Braunschweig is a multi-purpose hall on Leonhardplatz in Braunschweig , which was opened in 1965.
description
The building was designed by the architects Heido Stumpf and Peter Voigtländer. The Great Hall, the Small Hall and the Lecture Hall offer space for a total of 2950 people using rows of seats. The halls can be used separately or connected. From 1965 to 2015, the town hall had more than 15 million spectators and 25,000 events. There are currently more than 1,000 events per year, which are attended by more than 300,000 visitors.
The town hall offers halls and rooms for cultural and social events, exhibitions and congresses. It has a separate daytime restaurant and kitchens for the hall area. The city hall is operated by the city hall Braunschweig Betriebsgesellschaft mbH , which also operates the Volkswagen hall and the Eintracht stadium . The town hall is also used as one of the venues for the Braunschweig State Theater .
history
Old town hall
The Braunschweiger Stadthalle was initially located on Schützenplatz on Hamburger Strasse.
In April 1928, the Braunschweiger Schützengesellschaft and the carousel builder Hugo Haase merged to create and operate a town hall. Since the city did not want to participate, the use of the name Stadthalle was initially prohibited and the hall was called Brunsviga-Halle. Parts of a hall owned by Haases from Hamburg-Altona were moved to Schützenplatz for the construction. The completion was planned for the Oktoberfest in 1928. After a storm arose during the construction work in August 1928, which caused the construction to collapse and a carpenter to be killed, construction was suspended until 1931. The opening took place on November 1, 1931. The hall offered space for 3000 people. From 1930 to 1935 it was called the Exhibition and Festival Hall and then finally the City Hall. After it was no longer used for events, specialty stores moved in before it was demolished in 1999.
City hall on Leonhardplatz
In the 1960s, a decision was made to build a new town hall on Leonhardplatz in the vicinity of the new main train station .
A building competition was called for the construction of the new town hall. In the price decision on August 26, 1961, the Duisburg architects Heido Stumpf and Peter Voigtländer received first prize. On August 30, 1961, the city council gave the architectural community the contract for the construction. Construction began on October 23, 1962, and the foundation stone was laid on November 15, 1962. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on May 28, 1964. On December 15, 1964, the town hall supervisory board and the shareholders' meeting were constituted. The town hall was inaugurated on September 4, 1965. On December 16, 1966, the architects Voigtländer (†) and Stumpf were awarded the Peter Joseph Krahe Prize for the town hall.
On May 29, 1969, the one millionth visitor was welcomed. The town hall celebrated its 25th anniversary on September 5, 1990 with a gala premiere of Holiday on Ice . In 1995 the sound and lighting technology was modernized. In 1999 the forecourt was redesigned with a "red carpet" and light columns and a new canopy was built over the main entrance. In a test of the Conference & Incentive Management in 2004, the city hall became the fifth of a total of 157 convention centers. After extensive modernization measures, the town hall started a new season on September 18, 2009.
architecture
The town hall is a reinforced concrete structure that is based on a grid of equilateral triangles with a side length of 5.5 meters. The roofing of the halls was made of steel construction. The facade is clad with exposed aggregate concrete , a small part is plastered, the roof and the town hall logos are made of copper.
Spaces
- Great hall (2300 people)
- Small Hall / Congress Hall (200 to 500 people)
- Lecture hall (150 people)
- Conference room
- Foyers
literature
- Britta Berg: City Hall. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 217 .
- District group Braunschweig BDA : Architekturführer Braunschweig , Braunschweig 2001
- Justus Herrenberger : City hall in the right place. In: braunschweig. Reports from cultural life. 1966. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig, pp. 2-7.
- City Archives Braunschweig: City Chronicle Braunschweig
- Stadthalle Braunschweig (Ed.): Stadthalle Braunschweig. Congress and cultural center. Richard Borek, Braunschweig undated (probably 1965)
- Karl-Heinz Zillmann: A house for high demands. In: braunschweig. Reports from cultural life. 1966. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig, pp. 8-11.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadthalle Braunschweig Betriebsgesellschaft mbH on braunschweig.de
- ^ City of Braunschweig: The old town hall
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 11.6 " N , 10 ° 31 ′ 5.9" E