Burghof Loerrach
The Burghof is a cultural and event center built between 1996 and 1998 in Lörrach in southern Baden. It has become known nationwide due to its architecture , which works in the ensemble with the historically grown old town of Lörrach and the contemporary art in and on the building.
history
On November 6, 1998, after two years of construction, the "Burghof Lörrach" replaced the old town hall in its function and was opened as a new culture and event center. The name "Burghof" reminds us that the building was erected on a historical site. This is where Lörrach Castle , which was destroyed in 1638, stood . This was a small moated castle, roughly comparable to the Stettener Schlösschen or the Inzlingen moated castle .
architecture
The design by Basel architects Wilfrid and Katharina Steib looks like a tall and narrow ship and is a construction made of concrete, reddish clinker stone , steel and glass.
The courtyard measures 87 m in length, 30 m in maximum width and 19 m in height. The large and small hall, the gallery and the side gallery offer up to 885 seats, which can be changed or removed entirely depending on the event.
The courtyard is used multifunctionally for conferences, theater, concert and cultural events of all kinds (singing and music, dance, cabaret, literature, children's theater). The Lörrach information center is also located in the courtyard.
art
In the square in front of the castle courtyard, directly at the entrance, stands the metal sculpture Truncated Pyramid Room by Bruce Nauman in the form of an open, accessible truncated pyramid, measuring 11.40 m in base length and 7.5 m in vertical height . The reinforced concrete figure, painted with black bitumen , is illuminated from the inside with a yellow spotlight in the evening. This space-light sculpture by Nauman only existed as a model from a group of works created in 1982 and is his first publicly exhibited work in Europe.
literature
- Eugen Zimmermann: Museum am Burghof, Lörrach. Text: Bernhard Bischoff , Gerhard Moehring. Museum am Burghof, Loerrach 1987.
- Wolfgang Göckel: Burghof Lörrach: the house, the program, the prehistory: Lörrach's new culture and event center. Lörracher Hefte , Volume 4. Verlag Waldemar Lutz, Lörrach 1999, ISBN 978-3922107460 .
- Günter Pfeifer : In- between spaces: buildings and projects; 1975-2000 . Syntagma, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-940548-32-0 , pp. 290-293.
Web links
- Website of the Burghof Loerrach
- Badische Zeitung : The long way to the castle courtyard , article from November 5, 2008
Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 39 " N , 7 ° 39 ′ 33.4" E