Old Tonhalle
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The Alte Tonhalle was a municipal society and concert hall in Düsseldorf .
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In 1818 the first Lower Rhine Music Festival , constituted by the Municipal Music Association , took place in the Geisler'schen pub , which became the center of music lovers from 1830 onwards. It was a restaurant with a large wooden hall that was previously known as Becker's garden restaurant . In 1850, the number of spectators in the Geisler Hall was almost 1,000. In 1863 the city acquired the restaurant, which was already called the Tonhalle at that time .
Well-known composers such as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Norbert Burgmüller , Ferdinand Hiller , Julius Rietz , Ferdinand Ries and Robert Schumann made music there. Joseph Joachim and Jenny Lind took part in concerts here. Franz Liszt , Johannes Brahms and many great artists of the 19th century celebrated great success here. Mendelssohn's Paulus in 1836 and Schumann's Der Rose Pilgerfahrt and Requiem for Mignon from 1849 were premiered here, among others . In December 1912 the second performance of the 8th Symphony by Gustav Mahler took place with 1000 participants , after the Munich premiere in September 1910.
The first municipal sound hall was built in two years and opened in 1865. It was located on Flinger Steinweg, today's Schadowstraße . The building had a large concert hall, the Kaisersaal , which was 42.48 m long and 24.20 m wide. With two galleries, this room held 2820 people. The hall, which was characterized by good acoustics, was named after Kaiser Wilhelm I , in whose honor the Rhenish provincial estates held a banquet in the Tonhalle on the occasion of his visit on September 18, 1884.
In 1886 a competition for a new building was announced, in which the designs of the architects Hermann vom Endt and Bruno Schmitz in the neo-renaissance style were awarded. The city architects Eberhard Westhofen and Peiffhoven later planned an extension based on these new building plans, which was implemented from 1889 to 1892. The central entrance area of the building was emphasized by a classical portico system . From this building segment comes a column that Helmut Hentrich had erected in the Malkastenpark as a reminder of the traditional location of Düsseldorf music and festival culture . The imperial hall , the knight's hall , the connecting hall and a large number of representative ancillary rooms have been preserved. In 1901 the Kaisersaal was given a new stucco by the city building officer Peiffhoven and the alderman Johannes Radke . In this context, the Hemming & Witte company furnished the knight's hall with ceiling paintings . The middle part of the main facade showed four columns , crowned by a triangular gable.
The building complex had been brought forward to the Schadowstrasse 91 during the expansion. In addition to the concert halls that were taken over, the building now also included new lounges, shops and restaurants. The Düsseldorf carnival associations held their meetings in the building, and the Malkasten artists' association celebrated its masked ball here . In addition to the weekly symphony concerts, meetings of business associations, lectures, charity bazaars and carnival balls were held there. On a "coal day" held by the coal and steel industry in the Tonhalle in 1871, William Thomas Mulvany called the " Association for the Preservation of Common Economic Interests in Rhineland and Westphalia " into being, thus laying the foundation for the development of economic interest representation in West Germany and for the Development of Düsseldorf to the " desk of the Ruhr area " was placed.
The building was damaged by bombs in 1942 and later demolished. The city sold the Tonhalle site in the early 1950s to Karstadt AG , which had the new department store built at the same location according to plans by the architect Philipp Schaefer .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Frech: Living pictures and music using the example of Düsseldorf culture. diplom.de, 1999, ISBN 3-8386306-2-9 .
- ↑ World premieres of choral works from 1818 to the present day: 1818 Düsseldorf-Jansen's garden; 1830 Beckerscher Gartensaal; 1852 Tonhalle Geisler Garden Hall; 1864 Tonhalle Neuer Saal; 1872 Tonhalle Kaisersaal, last in 1942 , to Städtischer Musikverein zu Düsseldorf e. V., accessed on February 19, 2016
- ↑ The first Tonhalle from 1818 until it was destroyed at the end of World War II , at http://musikverein-duesseldorf.de , accessed on July 25, 2016
- ^ Municipal Tonhalle (former Geisler Garden). Schadowstrasse 89–93 , in the address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf, II. Public Authorities, Private Enterprises, Associations, compiled on July 1, 1865, p. 195
- ^ Municipal Tonhalle, 1895 , in New Illustrated Guide through Düsseldorf and the Surrounding Area, 1895/96, p. 24
- ^ Hugo Weidenhaupt : Brief history of the city of Düsseldorf . 9th edition. Triltsch Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, p. 121.
- ↑ Sale of land on the Tonhalle site to Karstadt AG , in the administrative report of the State Capital Düsseldorf from April 1, 1949 to March 31, 1951, II. Finance
literature
- Architects and Engineers Association of Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, pp. 287-290.
- Hugo Weidenhaupt : It all started with Jansen's garden. From the excursion restaurant to the first concert hall. In: Hugo Weidenhaupt: From Düsseldorf's past. Düsseldorf 1988.
- Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855–1914. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, plates 114 and 115.
- Michael Brockerhof: Düsseldorf as it was. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-7700-1277-0 , p. 128 f.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 38 " N , 6 ° 47 ′ 13.5" E