Barrel hall (Kempten)
The former barrel hall in Kempten (Allgäu) was an industrial building of the Allgäu brewery on Königstraße. The building, which has been a listed building since 2004, was designed by the Kempten architects Heydecker in 1924 and implemented in 1925/26.
history
In 1924, the locally known architects Heydecker were commissioned to design a new industrial building to replace the previous Engelkeller.
The barrel hall was completed there in 1926. In the hall itself, the wooden barrels were waxed (cleaned) and filled with beer. In one part, a stacking room for barrels and bottles was set up and a bottle filling system installed. There was also office space. In the 1950s, a simple extension to the barrel hall on Hirnbeinstrasse in the south was built.
When the Allgäu brewery gave up its brewing operations in Kempten in 2004 and moved to Leuterschach , the brewery area with the barrel hall and brewhouse developed into fallow land in the city center. In 2009 the Allgäuer Brauhaus sold the area to a subsidiary of the Geiger Group from Oberstdorf , which later also carried out most of the construction work.
A design competition was launched by the city authorities with the aim of using the area again in the future. So, after several drafts and suggestions, a modern and narrow development in the vicinity of the barrel hall was created. The historic brewhouse was completely demolished and partly rebuilt in its old form. A residential development with an underground car park was built on the site. Not only among the population was the new building described as too dense and architecturally unsuitable.
In 2015 the local press reported about woodworm infestation in the roof structure of the barrel hall. The entire roof was then dismantled. Defective roof parts were replaced, other parts repaired. At that time, the building consisted only of the outer walls and was open at the top. Inside, false ceilings were removed and the floor excavated.
The 1950s extension and other parts to the east of the barrel hall were demolished in 2016. In 2017, a cubic building with exposed concrete and glass for commercial space was completed in the south. In 2017 the barrel hall got its roof again. A planned opening date in 2017, when three restaurants for 700 guests would have opened, could not be implemented. In total, the renovation and renovation of the barrel hall cost 15 million euros, part of which is to be subsidized by the Bavarian State Foundation.
A hotel is to be built in the north, on Beethovenstrasse (as of 2018) west of the Villa Bayerische Staatsbank , where the administration of the Allgäu brewery has been based for several decades and which is now a union. There is a hotel in the immediate vicinity in the Allgäu Tower .
description
The building reflects the design language of the Heydecker architects, as is also known from the Allgäuhalle or the neighboring dairy farm . The facade is characterized by the arched and circular window openings that were walled up for several decades. The hipped roof is supported by a delicate wooden truss construction. The vaulted cellars are from earlier breweries on the site.
The original interior of the building is no longer preserved due to repeated renovations, as is usual with industrial buildings. The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation felt that only the outer facade and the roof were particularly worthy of protection.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Benz: "Build so that your mother likes it" In: Allgäuer Zeitung (Kempter Tagblatt), October 27, 2017, p. 31.
- ↑ Christine Tröger: Site visit on the brewery site In: Kreisbote.de, January 15, 2015 (accessed October 27, 2017)
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Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 21.4 ″ N , 10 ° 18 ′ 50 ″ E