Augsburg armory
The armory in the old town of Augsburg was built by Elias Holl between 1602 and 1607 . The designs for the facade - which, depending on the author, are assigned either to the Renaissance or to the Baroque - come from Joseph Heintz .
Above the mighty portal on the east side of the building there is an impressive bronze group by the sculptor Hans Reichle , cast by Wolfgang Neidhardt . It shows the Archangel St. Michael fighting against Satan , a motif that can also be found in the Turamichele in Augsburg .
history
Built armory as weapons and accommodation for up to 3,000 soldiers. After the end of Augsburg's imperial freedom , the building became the property of the Kingdom of Bavaria , but its original use was retained. Bought back by the city of Augsburg in 1893 for 195,000 gold marks , it was used as a city fire station from 1899 .
The British bombardment of Augsburg in February 1944 survived Elias Holl's architectural masterpiece largely unscathed. A few years later, however, the existence of the armory was threatened again: at the end of the 1960s, the city council had already decided to sell the historic building to the Horten department store group . Extensive renovation work and an optical integration into the neighboring department store building on Moritzplatz would have changed the Holl building from the ground up. Committed Augsburgers showed themselves defensively and brought the case before the Bavarian Administrative Court, which decided in a nationwide procedure against the plans of the Augsburg city elite.
present
After the Augsburg fire brigade moved into a new main fire station on Berliner Allee in 1975, the armory was extensively renovated from 1978 onwards. Reopened in December 1980 as an education and meeting center for the city of Augsburg , the historic building has since then been home to spacious meeting and exhibition rooms and a restaurant with a spacious beer garden. The Augsburg Adult Education Center also used the armory for over 25 years . After it was moved to the new education center in Forsterpark , the Sing- und Musikschule Mozartstadt Augsburg (until 2010 Städtische Albert Greiner Singing und Musikschule) moved into the vacant premises.
The city cinema , the municipal cinema of the city of Augsburg, housed in the attic of the armory from 1981 , has now been closed.
Tuscan portico
The Tuscan pillared hall is a large hall on the ground floor of the armory, which is entered through the main portal. Originally it served as an arms store, today it is used for exhibitions. Since June 2015 the temporary exhibition of the Roman Museum Augsburg has been shown in the Tuscan columned hall .
Web links
- On the history of the armory
- Armory - (City of Augsburg)
- The Augsburg Armory in the Augsburg Wiki
- Tuscan portico in the Augsburg Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Grassnick: The architecture of the modern age . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-83181-1 , p. 42 ( books.google.de ).
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '58.5 " N , 10 ° 53' 47.8" E