Citizens' Halls (Kassel)
The Bürgersäle was a Kassel restaurant and served as the SA's assembly and torture cellar during the Nazi era .
The building at Oberen Karlsstraße 17 was designed by the architect Charles du Ry and was built in a simple style typical of Oberneustadt. Since the first half of the 19th century the building was used as a pub, brewery and restaurant and had various types of guest rooms and halls. Later, the neo-Gothic Karl Schäfer built a hall building behind the main house, which was the largest in Kassel after the city park hall .
Since the late 1920s, the restaurant was called Bürgersäle. The NSDAP and the SA had a meeting place there. In March 1933, numerous citizens were abducted into the citizens' halls by the National Socialists and beaten and tortured in the cellar vaults. One of the abused was Max Plaut , a lawyer from Kassel , who is considered the first person to be killed in the Nazi tyranny in Kassel and who died several days later due to injuries sustained in the town hall.
The building was destroyed by the bombing raid on Kassel on October 22, 1943 . There is now a parking lot at the former location of the citizens' halls.
literature
- Frank-Roland Klaube: Alt-Kassel - A lost cityscape . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 1992, ISBN 3-925277-18-8 , p. 46.
Web links
- Restaurant "Bürgersäle". Topography of National Socialism in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 1, 2015 .
- On the persecution in the “citizens' halls” in the spring of 1933 and on how society dealt with what happened in the post-war period (PDF), address at the commemoration of the city of Kassel on January 27, 2009 by Gunnar Richter . ( Page no longer available )
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 45.3 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 40.8" E