Convent garden

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The Conventgarten was a large concert and event hall in Hamburg that was bombed out in 1943 .

The printer Johann Jacob Siegmund Wörmer opened “Wörmer's Conventgarten” as a beer garden with a music pavilion on July 24, 1853 at Fuhlentwiete No. 67 in Hamburg . Just one year later, he added a hall to the complex in which entertainment events and classical concerts were held. Not least because of the excellent acoustics (caused by the wood paneling) and the commitment of the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, the hall has developed into a prestigious venue.

In 1867 the hall was rebuilt on the initiative of the new owner Heinrich Adloff. The future town hall builder Martin Haller created a second gallery and entrances to the ground floor. From 1871, the convent garden also had an organ and was also large enough to allow entire choirs to perform on the stage. At that time the hall had 1,100 seats, at a later date it was expanded to almost 1,500 seats. The financing of the company was secured by the "Conventgarten-Actiengesellschaft" founded in 1889. The beer garden had to give way to the newly laid out Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse. A representative entrance building was added to the hall facing the new street.

Numerous philharmonic concerts took place in the convent garden. Here u. a. Richard Wagner , Hans von Bülow , Wilhelm Furtwängler and Bruno Walter as conductors, Erna Sack , Fjodor Schaljapin and Richard Tauber as singers, Clara Schumann , Jascha Heifetz , Wilhelm Kempff and Claudio Arrau as soloists as well as other national and international stars guest performances. During the early years of the National Socialist regime, numerous concerts by the Hamburg Jewish Cultural Association took place here. Among others, the tenor Joseph Schmidt and the contralto Sabine Kalter , a Hamburg “local hero”, performed songs and arias evenings in front of sold-out stands.

For decades, the Conventgarten not only had a fixed place in Hamburg's social life as the setting for such high-profile cultural events. It also served as the venue for countless dance and costume balls, club parties, lectures and political meetings. Exactly 90 years to the day after its opening, Coventgarten was destroyed by Allied bombs on July 24, 1943. The Axel Springer publishing house was later built on the property .

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  1. ↑ The Convent Garden, destroyed in 1943, in: Hamburger Abendblatt, May 28, 2008
  2. ^ Stephan Stompor : Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state . Hanover: Jewish Center for Jewish Music, 2001, p. 82
  3. ^ Uwe Bahnsen , Kestin von Stürmer: Conventgarten - Caruso, Confetti and Co. In: Hamburger Abendblatt, November 17, 2003

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 4.1 ″  E