House of Excellence
The Excellence House ( short: ExHaus ) is a building in Trier . It originally belonged to the St. Marien monastery . After the secularization , it was initially used as a barracks for Napoléon Bonaparte's troops . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it was used by the Prussian army. The present name comes from this time.
After the Second World War , the building was initially used as a storage room and fell into disrepair. In March 1972 it was rededicated as a youth center by the city of Trier, which owns the property . This represented an important step in urban development .
In 1980 the House of Excellence was on the brink of collapse because the south wing was dilapidated and had to be closed. Only from 1983 onwards was it possible to gradually refurbish the property.
Today the house of excellence houses a self-managed youth and cultural center . The focus is on the one hand in youth work and on the other hand in promoting youth culture . The House of Excellence is managed by an association of the same name, which is financially supported by the city. This is organized in the umbrella association of the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Soziokultur & Kulturpädagogik Rheinland-Pfalz .
With a day nursery and various socio-educationally supervised leisure activities for young people, the Excellence House fulfills an important function in the Trier-Nord district , a social hotspot . It also provides rehearsal and performance rooms for bands from the regional music scene.
In Exzellenzhaus year that finds Festival Summer Blast instead, one of the more popular German music festival in the fields of metalcore , hardcore punk , deathcore , post-hardcore and emocore .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 11 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 50" E