Big House (Augsburg)
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| Address: | Kennedy Place 1 |
| City: | 86152 Augsburg |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 22 '12.4 " N , 10 ° 53' 33" E |
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| Construction time: | 1876-1877 |
| Opened: | November 26, 1877 |
| Spectator: | 950 seats |
| Architects: | Ferdinand Fellner , Hermann Helmer |
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| Website: | www.theater-augsburg.de |
The big house is the main venue of the four-division state theater Augsburg .
History of the Great House
Background: Theater am Lauterlech
The predecessor of today's stage was the municipal theater on Lauterlech in Jakobervorstadt , which was played from 1777. In a fire on March 22nd, 1874, which is considered to be one of the most important theater fires of the 19th century, this building was severely damaged. The city's magistrate therefore decided in 1876 to rebuild the venue at a different location.
Established in 1877
The new building, the “Great House” as an imposing eye-catcher at the north end of Fuggerstrasse, was designed by the Viennese architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer in neo -Renaissance style and opened on November 26, 1877 with Weber's “Jubilation Overture” and Beethoven's “ Fidelio ”. It offered space for 1,400 spectators.
Inside and outside the building was richly decorated with ornamental and figural paintings and sculptures . A terrace with an outside staircase and a semicircular balustrade emphasized the location of the theater in terms of urban planning and created a festive entrance situation. Corinthian columns rose up on the first floor : the three large round arched openings each enclosed a niche , of which the left contained the statue of Goethe , the right the statue of Schiller . Relief images of Mozart and Beethoven were emblazoned above the statues . Figures were placed above the arches representing music , comedy , tragedy , etc. The Schnürboden was vaulted with a hooded roof, the auditorium and the side rooms of the stage had hipped roofs . The main vestibule led to the main staircase, in which two marble staircases led to the boxes of the first and second tier. The ceiling of the auditorium was richly ornamented. The “Birth of Beauty ” by Franz Lefler could be seen above the stage portal . Allegories of dance , tragedy, poetry , epic , satire , rhetoric and music followed. The main curtain was Aesop , the fable recites.
Remodeling in 1938/39 and destruction
In the Third Reich , on September 25, 1935, Adolf Hitler visited the interior architecture and the stage and initiated a renovation of the theater. This is related to Hitler's plans for the urban redesign of Augsburg. The city theater was to form the northern end of a parade avenue along Fugger and Kaiserstraße (today: Konrad-Adenauer-Allee ), at the southern end of which (Kaiserplatz, today: Theodor-Heuss-Platz) a new theater was to be built.
Hitler showed great interest in the renovation of the Great House. After the reconstruction plans in 1936/37 had been worked out, on November 15, 1937, he ordered the conversion to be included in the list of urgent building measures, which ensured that important building materials such as steel were allocated. On November 22, 1937, Hitler visited the construction site and suggested enlarging the social rooms in front of the auditorium, which necessitated the expansion of the front building, the enlargement of the portico and the extension of the entrance front from three to five axes. Hitler commissioned Paul Baumgarten , one of his favorite architects, to draw up the plans. At the end of 1937 / beginning of 1938, he examined the drafts several times together with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, and on November 18, 1938, he personally found out about the progress of the construction work. Apparently, Hitler also sponsored this part of the rebuilding. The reopening of the city theater took place on May 24, 1939 in Hitler's presence with a performance of Richard Wagner's " Lohengrin ".
During the Second World War , the synagogue, about 800 meters away, was used as a prop store.
During the air raids on Augsburg , the city theater was destroyed by a British bombing raid in February 1944.
Reconstruction from 1952
In the years 1952 to 1956, the theater was rebuilt in a simplified way. The rich ornamentation of the preserved facade front was largely removed. The interior of the theater has been redesigned in the style of the 1950s. The theater was reopened with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro . Today it offers space for 950 spectators, as two rows of boxes were no longer added above the parquet .
A raffle by the Association of Friends of the Augsburg City Theater, which was founded at the time, generated net profit of 450,000 DM (1,119,000 euros); the total cost of the reconstruction was 8,000,000 DM (44,744,000 euros). In 1877 the new city theater cost “only” 1,350,000 marks (approx. 10,041,000 euros).
Modernization from 1989
In 1989 the stage technology was renewed; In 1990 the proscenium area with orchestra pit and portal zone was rebuilt, the lower machinery was renewed and some drives of the cord floor were made electrically. The square in front of the theater has been dominated by Matschinsky-Denninghoff's Easter sculpture since 1992 .
General renovation from 2012
675,000 euros were invested in the building in 2012 because it no longer complied with safety regulations. As part of a complete renovation from 2014, it was planned to demolish the magazine. However, this has not happened to date (as of May 2016). Due to fire protection problems , it was decided to close the large house for extensive renovation at the end of the 2017 season. On May 20, 2016, however, it became known that the Great House had to be closed at the end of June 2016 due to newly discovered severe fire protection deficiencies.
Building ensemble
Around the opposite City Care Ranger , a small park with old trees on the street Am Alten intake, the theater building, together with the "City Care Ranger School" ( St. Anne's Primary School ), the building of the State and City Library and the Palace of Justice , a impressive ensemble . The four buildings belong to the ensemble Fuggerstrasse / Volkhartstrasse / Schaezlerstrasse , which is a comprehensive building ensemble under monument protection and is entered in the Bavarian monument list.
literature
- From Komödienstadel am Lauterlech to the rebuilt city theater In: Address book of the city of Augsburg 1971 , 86th edition, Augsburger Adreßbuchverlag Konrad Arnold, pp. 23–28
Web links
- Stadttheater Augsburg photos and postcards
- Stadttheater Augsburg Photos of ceiling paintings before the destruction
- Stadttheater Augsburg in the Augsburg Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ theater.augsburg.de ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ retrobibliothek.de .
- ↑ Five years of building the city of Augsburg. An accountability report for the years 1933-1937. Text volume, ed. by the mayor of the district capital Augsburg, Augsburg 1938, pp. 145f .; Files of the Reich Chancellery, The Hitler Government, Vol. IV: 1937, arr. by Friedrich Hartmannsgruber, Munich 2005, p. 796; Joseph Goebbels' diaries, ed. by Elke Fröhlich, Part I: Records 1923-1941, Vol. 5, Munich 2000, pp. 33, 96.
- ^ Theater: Renovation at a dizzying height Augsburger Allgemeine, from August 30, 2012
- ↑ Serious fire protection deficiencies - Augsburg without Stadttheater from June ( memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), report by Bayerischer Rundfunk from May 20, 2016
- ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number E-7-61-000-7
