Old Harmony (Heilbronn)
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The Harmonie was a society house with a festival hall on Allee 32. It was one of the magnificent buildings on Heilbronner Allee and was a representative festival hall for the better society of Heilbronn in the period before the Second World War . After the building was destroyed in the war, a new harmony designed by Kurt Marohn was built in its place .
history
The Harmonie-Gesellschaft, founded in Heilbronn in 1814, had a society house with a festival hall built at the Alte Harmonie at 32 avenue according to plans by Prof. Robert von Reinhardt . The west facade of the symmetrically built house (solid ashlar) was divided into a two-storey porch with two risalits and a three-storey main building (also with two risalits).
Two-storey porch with two risalits
The ten-axis ground floor of the two-story porch was divided into a four-axis middle section and two three-axis risalits.
- Stem-middle part - ground floor height
In the four-axis porch middle section, the two arched doors and the two windows on the right and left side were decorated with corner cuboids or corner pilaster strips , consisting of small and large, evenly processed humpback cuboids. On both sides of the window and door arches there were large cartridges, framed with a strong profile .
- Porch risalit - ground floor height
In each of the two three-axis porch risalits there were three arched windows at ground level. Here, however, a corner cuboid was used exclusively on the corners of the risalit and not on the sides of the doors and windows. The windows of the porch risalites were simply adorned with a diamond block as a keystone in the lintel .
- Stem-middle part - upper floor height
In the four arched windows of the first floor in the middle section of the porch, individual balustrades interrupted in the middle had been attached. The windows showed a strong, profiled reveal . This reveal was in the form of narrow pilasters with a capital , on which the round arch adorned with a dominant, protruding keystone rested. On the upper floor in the middle part of the porch, narrow pilasters flanked the conches on both sides of the windows . The semicircular wall niches were themselves flanked by pilasters and each had a triangular ornamental gable . Above the triangular gable were reliefs been installed, showed the laurels. Each of these niches was reserved for a bust, in one of which was the bust of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
- Porch risalit - upper storey height
The three arched windows on the first floor in the two porch risalits also showed a strong, profiled reveal, which had the shape of narrow pilasters with capital. The middle of the three windows was flanked on both sides with two wide pilasters on which an architrave with a triangular gable rested. The triangular gable was made like the gable of the Greek temple . While the year of construction of the building was shown in Roman numerals in the architrave, the tympanum of the little gable was decorated with a relief that was an allegory of the musical arts.
Three-story main building with two risalits
- Main building middle section - upper and top floor height
Between the two side projections of the main building, twin windows could be seen on the facade, both on the third floor and in the attic.
- Main building risalit - upper and top floor height
The three-story main building, like the two-story porch, has two side elevations. These show an architrave and a triangular gable like those of the Greek temples at the top. The architrave on both side projections of the three-story main building showed an inscription Harmonie . The temple gables above the architrave showed mythological images in high relief in the tympanum . The First of the temple pediment showed as roof ornaments an eagle spreading its wings.
literature
- 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). Picture no. 58: Alte Harmonie, 1909. P. 46f
Individual evidence
- ↑ The description essentially follows Schmolz / Weckbach (1966), No. 58, page 46f [Alte Harmonie 1909]
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 33 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 24 ″ E