Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr

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South wing of the Bochum concert hall with the former Marienkirche converted into a foyer

The Anneliese Brost Music Forum in Bochum is a concert hall for the Bochum Symphony Orchestra with a hall for the city music school. The former St. Mary's Church serves as the foyer for both halls in the building designed by the Stuttgart architects Bez + Kock . The aim of the new music center is to create an artistic attraction that will radiate into the city and the region. The opening took place on October 28, 2016. The name of the music forum refers to Anneliese Brost , whose foundation significantly supported the construction.

prehistory

Entrance area of ​​the Anneliese Brost Music Forum on Viktoriastraße

As early as the 1960s, when the municipal orchestra was renamed the Bochumer Symphoniker, the construction of a concert hall was considered in order to relieve the theater as a venue for the orchestra. Instead of the concert hall, however, the Ruhrlandhalle was built as a multi-purpose hall. “The homeless wandering around, most recently between the acoustically precarious Bochum theater and the Audimax of the Ruhr University ” continued as a result.

concept

The foyer in the former Marienkirche
The large hall for around 1000 visitors

The music center serves, among other things, as the home of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra for rehearsals and concerts, space for the city music school and performance location for its students and ensembles as well as an architecturally appealing part of the inner city design.

The music center was built with the following spatial program:

  • a large hall with 1026 seats and a stage that can be used for concerts, seen to the left of the entrance, i.e. south
  • an acoustically optimized multifunctional hall with around 250 seats and a stage, seen to the right of the entrance, i.e. to the north
  • a foyer - also for readings, smaller concerts, get-togethers and the unpredictable
  • Tuning rooms, rehearsal rooms, artists' dressing rooms
  • Rooms for the infrastructure of a concert hall
  • Sheet music archive, stage management rooms, storage rooms

development

Originally, the city of Bochum was to receive a pure concert hall. The implementation of the project failed again and again due to a lack of funds, although a private foundation wanted to raise a substantial part of the construction costs. Most recently, in 2010, the Arnsberg district government banned the city from raising its own funds for the project, as the city was in an emergency budget . Due to the difficult budget situation, the state also ruled out state funding as unrealistic.

Due to a change in concept through the addition of a music school hall, the concert hall project became the music center . In 2011, the state government promised the necessary EU and state funding for this.

The break bell

On March 9, 2011, the City Council of Bochum decided to build the music center under certain conditions, in particular the legally binding provision of private donations of 14.3 million euros, availability of funding of 16.528 million euros, compliance with a construction cost limit of 33 , 3 million euros and building-related follow-up costs of a maximum of 650,000 euros.

The planning office Bez + Kock from Stuttgart won the architectural competition . In the design, "the spatial character of the church could be preserved, yes, it was raised to the standard: the double main entrance is in its choir, its nave serves as a foyer, the cloakroom is under the gallery of the former organ, and of the four bells which, made by the Bochum Association for Mining and Cast Steel Manufacture , was removed from the tower for static reasons, beats the largest (with the tone b for Bochum) as a break gong ”.

Convinced of this draft, the city council decided on July 5, 2012 that the stated conditions were met. Construction of the music center began in 2013. Private donors contributed 14.6 million euros of the construction costs. The calculated construction costs were ultimately exceeded by around 10% - a good result for public buildings of this size. The opening took place according to plan in October 2016. The Bochum Symphony Orchestra "is receiving the recognition that it has been earning for a long time and the domicile that it has been without for so long". In addition, "through this project, Bochum has made itself known as a powerful and inventive municipality".

reception

40,000 visitors came to the opening weekend of the music forum in October 2016. The concert events have an occupancy rate of over 95% "and testify to the long-term perspective of this musical success story."

Awards

The Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr has received several national and international architecture prizes, including a. with the Architecture Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2018, the German Design Award (Winner) 2018 and the best architects 18 Award.

In the context of the architecture award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded by the BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten in 2018 , the jury ruled: "The old nave has developed unexpected space potential, as the mere entrance and distributor has become an independent event hall that complements the two concert halls Functional change from a sacred to a profane concert building has not robbed the former church of its dignity. "

criticism

Association of Taxpayers

The Association of Taxpayers put the project on the 2011 tax waste list. a. stated that a new concert hall in Bochum was not necessary in view of the existing concert halls in the neighboring cities of Dortmund and Essen. It was also criticized that the operating costs were to be borne by the city, which “does not fit with the other lament about the city's financial situation”. Furthermore, the city of Bochum took over the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum with the assurance of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia of 9.53 million euros in funding for the purpose of converting the St. Mary's Church in Bochum into a "music center". The taxpayers' association wrote in an article that this would result in at least half a million euros in annual maintenance costs in the city's budget.

Citizens 'initiative Citizens' initiative

West side of the great hall on Humboldtstrasse

Even before the building decision of July 5, 2012, a citizens' initiative tried to achieve that the decision on the fulfillment of the building conditions should be made by the citizens of the city instead of the council. The major council parties rejected this. There were not enough signatures for a referendum. As a result, the citizens' initiative initiated a new referendum to force a referendum. It garnered 14,924 votes. The administrative court of Gelsenkirchen declared the petition for citizens to be inadmissible because the deadlines were not met. The appeal against this decision before the Higher Administrative Court in Münster ended with the court declaring the question inadmissible. Despite the legal failure of the referendum, the city council dealt with the referendum on December 13, 2012; the council also found the inadmissibility.

Members of the citizens' initiative prepared reports on the follow-up costs of the music center. One of them put the building-related follow-up costs according to DIN 18960 at at least EUR 2.13 million (instead of EUR 0.65 million). In addition, the citizens' initiative calculated that every ticket sold would be subsidized with 400 euros for the construction of the music center, based on all concert goers (including those who did not pay admission) with 207 euros.

Web links

Commons : Musikzentrum Bochum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concept Music Center (PDF; 560 kB).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann: Bochum music house should inspire generations. In: DerWesten . WAZ, October 28, 2016, accessed October 29, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Max Florian Kühlem: Herbert Grönemeyer also raves about the music forum. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Ruhr Nachrichten , October 27, 2016, accessed on October 29, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Michael Weeke: A brief look at the life and work of Anneliese Brost, who gave it its name. In: derwesten.de. October 29, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016 .
  5. ^ Karl Brinkmann: Bochum - From the history of a large city in the area (= New Bochumer series. 2). Schürmann and Klagges, Bochum 1968, OCLC 256081309 , p. 383.
  6. ↑ Malte Hemmerich: Malte Hemmerich: «Finally I hear how beautiful you play». No money, but culture: the clammy Bochum opens an exemplary concert hall. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 31, 2016, p. 28 ( online under the title: No coal, but culture. Bochum is heavily indebted and has been musically overshadowed by Essen and Dortmund up to now. Now the Ruhrpott city has its own concert hall - and the opening happened to triumph ).
  7. ↑ Reasons that speak for the Bochum Music Center. In: bochumer-symphonie.de. Bochum Symphony Foundation, archived from the original on September 20, 2017 ; accessed on July 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Facts and interesting facts about the music center. How big will the music center be? (No longer available online.) In: bochum.de. City of Bochum, archived from the original on September 20, 2012 ; Retrieved on July 18, 2018 (including the space program of the music center, first memento).
  9. ^ A b Johan Schloemann: Short construction time, low costs. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 17, 2015, accessed February 21, 2015.
  10. ↑ Tobias Bolsmann: The last hope for the Bochum concert hall is extinguished. In: DerWesten. WAZ, Bochum edition, February 5, 2010.
  11. ↑ Administrative template dated March 9, 2011 (PDF; 126 kB).
  12. ↑ Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann: Competition winners present draft. In: DerWesten. WAZ, Bochum edition, May 24, 2012.
  13. ↑ a b c Andreas Rossmann : A shoebox from the piggy bank. The church bell strikes as a break gong: Today the music forum is inaugurated in Bochum. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 27, 2016, p. 12.
  14. ↑ Tim Neshitov: The American Dream. Thanks to Steven Sloane, clammy Bochum in the clammy Ruhr area now has a place for its symphonies. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 18, 2016, p. 3.
  15. ↑ Reinhard Brembeck: That was still missing. Simple clarity, warm sound - and next door the table dance: Bochum celebrates its music center, which is radically close to the people. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 29, 2016, p. 18.
  16. ↑ Bettina Schürkamp: Tailor-made suit for an orchestra, in: DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, Issue 5, 2018, p. 60
  17. ^ Jury verdict on the NRW Architecture Prize 2018
  18. ^ A concert hall for Bochum's lamentations. The state, the EU and donors finance the city's long-awaited concert hall, but the BdSt still advises against it. In: Steuerzahler-nrw.de. March 3, 2011, accessed July 19, 2018.
  19. ^ Administration of the city of Bochum: Communication from the administration - inner city west - takeover of the Jahrhunderthalle by the city of Bochum, status of negotiations with the state and implementation of investment measures. In: Citizen Information System of the City of Bochum. City of Bochum, November 23, 2011, accessed on January 12, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Association of Taxpayers NRW - Expensive Exchange: Music Center against Century Hall. In: Steuerzahler-nrw.de. Retrieved January 12, 2017 .
  21. ^ A b Bochum: Citizens' petitions against the music center. In: nrw.mehr-demokratie.de. More Democracy , accessed November 14, 2016.
  22. ↑ Benedikt Reichel: SPD rejects the council citizens' decision. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Ruhr news. Bochum edition, March 13, 2012, archived from the original on February 21, 2015 ; accessed on July 18, 2018 (article title freely accessible).
  23. ↑ Thomas Schmitt: Music Center - "Bäh-Bürger" end up in the OB office. In: DerWesten, WAZ, Bochum edition. October 25, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Tom Thelen: Citizens' petitions against music center failed. In: DerWesten, WAZ, Bochum edition. November 2, 2012, accessed November 30, 2012 .
  25. ↑ Volker Steude: Brief report . Costs for the music center / Jahrhunderthalle Bochum project. Bochum April 23, 2012 ( buergerbegehren-musikzentrum.de [PDF; 722 kB ; accessed on July 18, 2018] Version 1.10).
  26. ↑ Subsidy on every ticket sold / per visit to the “Music Center”. In: buergerbegehren-musikzentrum.de. September 16, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2018 (PDF; 42 kB).

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 39 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 53.5"  E