Concert hall Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt (Oder)

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Concert hall Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt (Oder)
Concert hall from the northeast

The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall in Frankfurt (Oder) is a concert and event location in a former Franciscan monastery church in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Location and surroundings

The concert hall is in the north of the city center. The area is bounded in the north by the Lebuser Mauerstraße, which marks the former course of the city wall. In the east, the Oder promenade connects to the nave, the east gable of which is clearly visible from the other side of the river. To the south and west, around the Untermarkt on Collegienstraße, are the former medieval prison (today library and museum), the Friedenskirche (vacant) and the former double parsonage (today the city archive).

architecture

The rectangular building with a gable roof is a three-aisled Gothic brick building with six bays . The two gables are plastered. The west gable is decorated with patterns made of bricks. The single nave, just closed choir has three bays and is three meters lower than the nave. Its gable is designed with Gothic window shapes. The north and south sides of the nave are structured with six windows and the west side with three windows that go over the entire height of the facade. There are two double-leaf gates on the south side. Of the two 2.90 m high bronze gates designed by Axel Schulz , one is called the "Heiteres Tor" and the other "Ernstes Tor". Each of the four gate leaves has four fields with motifs. The top of both gates is formed by a semicircular arch, which is designed as a tree. In the north, a two-storey functional extension with an atrium follows the entire length.

Building history

The Franciscan Order, founded in 1210, spread rapidly in the German Empire in the 13th century . Even before 1253 there was a monastery at the Brückentor in Frankfurt, which at that time belonged to the diocese of Lebus . Around 1270 the Franciscans of the Saxon Franciscan Province built a new monastery with a church near the St. Nikolai Church . The friars were first mentioned in a document in 1312 as religiosi viri et nobis in Christo dilecti fratres Minores nostre ciuitatis “the pious Friars Minor of our city loved by us in Christ”. The consecration of the sacristy (another reading: a chapel) took place in 1301. Several wealthy Frankfurt families had their burial place in the monastery church . From 1516 to 1525, brother Andreas Lange rebuilt the three-aisled nave of today's hall church on octagonal pillars with star-net vaults. At that time, the monastery consisted of 20 fathers and four lay brothers . In the course of the Reformation , the Frankfurt city council forbade the Franciscans from preaching and reading the fair on November 9, 1539, the monastery was closed and the Franciscans were expelled. The property of the monastery was given to Elector Joachim II of the Universitas Viadrina . A university printing press was set up in the library. In 1551 the monastery church was transformed into a Lutheran church . In 1572 all monastery buildings were finally transferred to the university. A catering facility for poor students was set up in the monastery. Since the middle of the 16th century, services for the lower town were held in the monastery church for about 100 years.

Extensive renovation work took place between 1735 and 1736 under King Friedrich Wilhelm I. The substructure for a planned tower was created, which was not built but is still there today. With the dissolution of the university in 1811, the buildings of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) were overwritten. The building was an independent parish church and used by the Frankfurt garrison. From 1823 to 1901 the city ran a poor house there. At the end of the Second World War , the monastery buildings were destroyed; the church survived as one of the few houses in the city center. At the end of the war, the church was rarely used for church services, as the former congregation mainly came from the Dammvorstadt , which was on the Polish side with the contract on the Oder-Neisse border .

In 1966, the parish and the city of Frankfurt (Oder) decided to convert the decaying building into a concert hall, subject to monument preservation requirements. In 1967 the city signed a lease agreement with the parish. The first concert guests could be received as early as 1967 on the occasion of the 2nd Frankfurt Festival of Music. From 1969 to 1970 the monastery church was renovated. Medieval vault paintings were exposed and restored. On October 2nd, 1970, at the opening of the 10th Oder Festival, the concert hall was named Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach . In 1975 two entrance gates were installed on the south side. There were four suggestions for the design of the doors; On March 7, 1969, a commission decided in favor of the ultimately implemented one and concluded a corresponding contract for work with Schulz on March 25, 1971. In 1987, the extension of a functional building began. Completed in 1988, there are rehearsal rooms, restaurants, cloakrooms, offices and instrument rooms. From 1990 onwards, further restoration work was carried out. The east windows in the choir received leaded glass windows and the former sacristy was restored. The concert hall was re-arranged in 1999 by the Frankfurter Festtage der Musik initiative group with the fundraising campaign Put your chair in the concert hall at a cost of 100,000 DM . The important medieval roof structure was renovated by the city's jubilee in 2003. At the beginning of 2003 the roof turret , which had been removed in 1736, was put back on again. From the music company C. PH. E. Bach donated the weather vane with the initials bach in old mensural notation . In 2013 the chamber music hall was renovated for 180,000 euros. Damage caused by moisture was removed, the plaster repaired and new paintwork was carried out.

Organs

Great Sauer Organ (1975)
Great organ in 1977

The church houses two organs , both of which were built in the organ building workshop W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) .

The great organ was built in 1975. The abrasive loading -instrument has 50 registers (3,964 pipes ) on three Manual works and pedal . The prospectus is designed according to the factory principle. The action actions are optionally mechanical or electrical, the stop actions are electrical.

I Rückpositiv C – c 4
Wooden dacked 8th'
Quintadena 8th'
Prefix 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Gemshorn 1'
Sharp IV
Wooden shelf 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – c 4
Pommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
octave 4 ′
Smalled up 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
recorder 2 ′
Mixture V-VI
Zimbel III
bassoon 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – c 4
Drone 16 ′
Wooden principal 8th'
Tube bare 8th'
Salizional 8th'
octave 4 ′
Pointed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Seventh 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
Oktavlein 1'
Sesquialtera II
Mixture V-VII
Quintan II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ + 8/9 '
Dulcian 16 ′
oboe 8th'
Light trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Cornet train
Pedal C – f 1
Principal 16 ′
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Pommer 8th'
Hollow flute 4 ′
Pipe whistle 2 ′
Size Sesquialtera III
Mixture VII
Sordun 32 ′
trombone 16 ′
Bombard 8th'
Corno 4 ′
Singing cornet 2 ′
Cornet train
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids: four free combinations, two free pedal combinations; Pleno, tutti, register crescendo, stop (reeds, 16 'registers, reeds individually, cylinder),
Small Sauer Organ (1866)

In 1990 the church received another instrument. It is a historical organ from 1866, one of the oldest preserved small organs by Wilhelm Sauer . The instrument is used as a solo instrument or as an accompanying instrument at chamber concerts. The Kegelladen instrument has eight stops on a manual and pedal. The actions are mechanical.

Manuals C – f 3
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Salicional 8th'
(Continuation)
Octave 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C – f 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 8th'

Events

The concert hall has been the seat and home of the Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) since 1971 and the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) as well as the Singakademie Frankfurt (Oder) and the Orchestra of the Frankfurter Musikfreunde since 1995 . The German-Polish Youth Orchestra performs regularly. The regular events include the music festival on the Oder, Bach festivals, Bach symposia, Wilhelm-Sauer organ festival , music series and subscriptions in classical music and entertainment. Smaller events as well as exhibitions and presentations take place in the chamber music hall and foyer . The sacristy is home to the world's only permanent exhibition on the life and work of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Guest performances have brought international and national artists such as Dawid Fjodorowitsch Oistrach , Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch , Ludwig Güttler , Rudolf Buchbinder , Gisela May , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Wladimir Dawidowitsch Aschkenasi to the concert hall.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Music Society »C. Ph. E. Bach Frankfurt (Oder) eV «: Concert hall. In: www.bach-frankfurt.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , pp. 213-217.
  3. ↑ Frauke Adesyan: Refurbished backdrop for chamber music. (No longer available online.) In: MOZ.de. November 8, 2013, archived from the original on May 2, 2016 ; accessed on October 8, 2016 .
  4. ^ Musikgesellschaft Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt (Oder) eV In: bach-frankfurt.de. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ MESSE: MUV - concert hall -. In: www.muv-ffo.de. Retrieved October 7, 2016 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '58.4 "  N , 14 ° 33' 9.4"  E