Festival hall Viersen

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Festival hall in Viersen with the old city arms (2007)

The Festhalle Viersen is a well-known performance building for theater and concerts as well as the venue for the three-cushion world championship for national teams and the venue for an annual international jazz festival in the Lower Rhine district town of Viersen .

history

In 1913 the festival hall was completed according to plans by the city architect Eugen Frielingsdorf. The factory owner Josef Kaiser, whose company Kaiser's coffee shop was based in Viersen, made a significant contribution to the realization with a donation of 130,000 marks on the occasion of his appointment to the council of commerce . Until 1925 the building was also used as a gym. A redesign that took place in 1939/1940 was also intended to provide opportunities for political events by the NSDAP . The building was only slightly damaged during the war and was used again soon after the war. It has been renovated and rebuilt several times in the course of its history. In 1997 the festival hall was extensively renovated and refurbished (internal and external appearance, new seating and technology), made possible by the support of the festival hall support association.

It celebrated its centenary on December 7, 2013.

building

The facade has classical elements (columns, triangular gables and pilasters ). The large hall of the festival hall has about 1,000 seats. The seating on the ground floor of the hall can be dismantled; then it holds 1200 visitors. In 1955, the magazine “Baukunst und Werkform” searched 20 well-known conductors for the best acoustic concert halls in the world; In the results for Germany, in addition to Bremen's concert hall Die Glocke, only the “Viersener Festhalle” was named.

organ

In 1915 the company Johannes Klais Orgelbau (Bonn) built a large concert organ in the festival hall. It had 50 stops on three manual works and a pedal . Two of the manuals were designed to be swellable ; three registers were high pressure registers. The instrument was removed in 1978.

Disposition of the Klais organ from 1915
I main work Ca 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Double clad 8th'
4th Viola di gamba 8th'
5. Concert flute 8th'
6th Dulciana 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. Mixture IV-V
11. Cornett IV
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell I Ca 3
13. Salicional 8th'
14th Horn principal 8th'
15th Dumped 8th'
16. Flauto Dolce 8th'
17th Violin (HD) 8th'
18th Tibia (HD) 8th'
19th Proestant 4 ′
20th Flauto traverso 4 ′
21st Flautino 2 ′
22nd Sesquialter II
23. Cymbel III-IV
24. bassoon 16 ′
25th oboe 8th'
26th Tuba mirabilis (HD) 8th'
27. Clairon 4 ′
III Swell II Ca 3
28. Darling Dumped 16 ′
29 Flute Principal 8th'
30th Harmony flute 8th'
31. Quintatön 8th'
32. Aeoline 8th'
33. Vox coelestis 8th'
34. Octave flute 4 ′
35. Cremona 4 ′
36. Piccolo harm. 2 ′
37. Echo Mixture III
38. Harmonia etherea IV
39. clarinet 8th'
Pedal Cf 1
40. Principal 16 ′
41. Violon 16 ′
42. Salicet 16 ′
43. Sub bass 16 ′
44. Echo bass 16 ′
45. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
46. Principal 8th'
47. Bass flute 8th'
48. violoncello 8th'
49. Bass octave 4 ′
50. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I (also as sub and super octave coupling), III / I (also as sub and super octave coupling), III / II, I / P, II / P (also as super octave coupling), III / P

Performances

From 1947 to 1949, were from here symphony concerts by the NWDR - Radio Orchestra transferred later from WDR other programs, such as "The ideal bridal couple". Because of the excellent acoustics , numerous internationally renowned conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler , Thomas Beecham or Ferenc Fricsay made guest appearances , as well as major orchestras (for example the Berlin Philharmonic under Sergiu Celibidache and Herbert von Karajan ) and soloists such as Gidon Kremer , Lang Lang , Nigel Kennedy and David Garrett in the festival hall. There were also theater guest performances by well-known theaters (for example Gustaf Gründgens with the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus ).

location

Three Cushion World Cup 2013

The festival hall is centrally located in Alt-Viersen on Hermann-Hülser- Platz. This was redesigned in 2014.

use

literature

  • Fritz Winckel: The best concert halls in the world. In: Baukunst und Werkform, monthly for all areas of design , 8th year 1955, issue 12, pp. 750–753.
  • Albert Pauly: The Viersener Festhalle. In: Viersen. Contributions to a city. Volume 6. Viersen 1984, pp. 4-13.
  • Gustav René Hocke : Europe on the Lower Rhine. In: Home book of the district of Viersen. Volume 39. Viersen 1988, pp. 21-35.
  • Arie Nabrings: The Festival Hall 1913–1988. (= Viersen, Contributions to a City , Volume 14.) Viersen 1988.
  • Hans Herbert Jöris : Music and Theater in Viersen 1848 to 1945. Editing by Jutta Pitzen. Edited by the Association for Homeland Care Viersen, Working Group for Publications on City History. Eckers, Viersen 2006, ISBN 3-9808779-3-0 ( Viersen, contributions to a city. 30).
  • Gert Holtmeyer: Viersen wrote cultural history: European music and theater celebrities after 1945 in the festival hall . Association for Home Care 2011, ISBN 978-3981346329 .

Web links

Commons : Festhalle Viersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Herbert Jöris (Red.), Jutta Pitzen (Ed.): Music and Theater in Viersen from 1848 to 1945. (= Viersen, Contributions to a City, Volume 30.) Viersen 2006, ISBN 3-9808779-3-0 .
  2. ↑ Klaus Pillen: 100 years of existence of the Viersener Festhalle. In: wz-newsline.de. June 12, 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b viersen.de
  4. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company
  5. ↑ See the information on the city of Viersen website
  6. ↑ Simon Hopf: How Viersen became the meeting place for European music and theater celebrities . In: Rheinische ART , 12/2011
  7. ↑ on May 3, 2009
  8. ↑ Georg Holtmeyer: Viersen wrote cultural history . Volume 37 of the series of publications of the Viersen Association for Home Care, ISBN 978-3-9813463-2-9

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 10.8 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 28.7"  E