Aktientheater (Heilbronn)
The Aktientheater was a theater building in Heilbronn . The building erected in 1817 and expanded in 1844 to include a stage was the forerunner of the Harmonie concert and congress center . The Heilbronn theater , which was given a new venue a little further north in 1913 , also goes back to the Aktientheater as a cultural institution .
history
In 1817 Carl Christoph Braunhardt built a garden hall with an inn to the east of the avenue (in today's Stadtgarten), building no. 1039, later avenue 30. The style of the building belonged to late classicism , at the transition to Biedermeier . The overall structure of the house was modeled on the main building and the two side aisles of the Roman basilica . The central wing had a gable roof, the side aisles had pent roofs that were hipped to the front and rear . The main facade of the building faced west. Three entrances closed off with lunette windows lead into the house via an outside staircase.
1836 the building together with the associated large garden was created by a share garden club acquired (a joint initiative of the city and the citizens). A few years later, the building was converted into a stock theater by adding a stage . In the course of the renovations, the city withdrew its financial stake and the citizens then acquired the city's shares.
The Aktientheater was inaugurated on November 9, 1844. The city subsidized the theater again from 1864. From private ownership it passed to the Harmonie-Gesellschaft in 1870, which built a new main building in 1876 . In 1905 the Aktientheater came to the city of Heilbronn and was thereby elevated to the city theater.
As early as 1902, criticism of the flammable and now aging building had been loud, which is why Mayor Paul Göbel appealed for donations for a new theater building in 1908. Ernst Jäckh and Peter Bruckmann founded a local group of the Goethebund so that art could be brought to the people , and supported the project with a further appeal for donations in 1911. By 1913, the Old City Theater was built further north on the avenue , where the theater would take place in future . The older buildings in the Stadtgarten were destroyed by the air raid on December 4, 1944 .
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- ↑ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . 3. Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1966 (publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn, 14). P. 46
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 30.8 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 25.3" E