Hamburg House Eimsbüttel
The Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel is a public institution in the Eimsbüttel district . It is located at Doormannsweg 12, the eastern exit of the Wehbers Park green area .
The Hamburg-Haus, opened in 1965, is designed as a community and cultural center that is open to all visitors regardless of age, ethnicity or religion. It offers space for cultural events, meetings and exhibitions and houses the Eimsbüttel location of the public library .
The building and associated sculptures are in the list of recognized monuments (according to § 7 a DSchG HA) of the Hamburg Monument Protection Office .
building
The Hamburg House was designed by the architect Paul Seitz , who at the time was the first building director and head of the building construction department in Hamburg. The building is characterized by a lack of symmetries. It consists of several one to three-story low-rise buildings with red or yellow brick walls.
Visitors enter the Hamburg-Haus from the south and pass the gatekeeper into the 700 square meter foyer , which is also known as the meeting hall. It is glazed on both sides and allows a view of three green inner courtyards. From here doors lead to the book hall, the large hall with stage (330 m²) and the small ballroom (110 m²).
The foyer branches out into several corridors that lead to a wing with club rooms in the north-east, the Eimsbüttel parents school building part in the south-west and a day care center for the elderly in the south-east corner of the complex.
The Hamburg house has been energetically renovated since May 2010. These include an improvement in thermal insulation, energy-saving installations and a photovoltaic system on the roof.
Works of art
In the back of the foyer of the Hamburg-Haus there is a stone sculpture by Hans Kock . The non-figurative stele bears the title Encounter and dates from 1965. In it, individual forms unite to form a new whole, analogous to the building surrounding them.
In one of the inner courtyards stood the bronze heron by Kurt Bauer , which originally came from the Unnapark , where it was installed in 1956.
In the small inner courtyard at the far right, the sculpture “o. T. ”by the Danish sculptor Ole Hempel (1944–2007).
The Hamburg-Haus also has an outdoor sculpture across the Doormannsweg at the entrance to Wehbers Park. It is a free-standing copper wall by Hildegard Stromberger , also called "Encounter" (1966).
use
Over 250,000 people visit the Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel every year.
The permanent facilities include the Eimsbüttel branch of the Hamburg library, a parents' school , a senior citizens' club run by the Lange Aktiv Stay eV association, a girls' center and a café run by the Winterhuder workshops.
The meeting rooms are rented by associations, interest groups and institutions. More than 80 permanent groups of people regularly use the facility for their activities. These include, for example, self-help groups, choirs or the Hamburg tenants' association, which offers weekly advice.
There are often exhibitions in the foyer. It also offers space for stamp exchange fairs and similar events.
history
After social democrat Max Brauer had once again become First Mayor of Hamburg, he announced in his Senate declaration of January 15, 1958 the creation of Hamburg houses that would serve as community and cultural centers in the various districts of Hamburg. He suggested Eimsbüttel or Eppendorf as the first location.
SPD officials in the Eimsbüttel district committee then campaigned for their district to be the first to receive such a center. These plans met with opposition from the CDU and FDP. It was argued that there were already enough meeting places in Eimsbüttel and that the money could be used more sensibly. In addition, pejorative comparisons were drawn with cultural institutions in the GDR, which the proponents of the project answered with counter-examples from Western countries. Despite this controversy, the district committee approved the building project on March 17, 1960 with a majority without dissenting votes, and a later application by the CDU parliamentary group to delete the Hamburg-Haus budget also failed.
On September 5, 1961, the project was approved by the city council. The foundation stone was laid on the 26th of the following month and construction work began in spring 1962. They lasted three years until the Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel was finally opened on June 1, 1965.
In 1971 the Hamburg library moved its Eimsbüttel location from Grundstrasse 8 to the Hamburg house.
literature
- Sielke Salomon, published by the Morgenland gallery: An urban compensation: Building and living in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 1950 - 1968. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-77-4 .
Web links
- The Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel on hamburg.de
- Eimsbüttel book hall in the Eimsbüttel building in Hamburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of recognized monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (PDF; 1.9 MB)
- ↑ a b c d Salomon, pp. 170/171
- ↑ Energy-efficient renovation of the Hamburg House
- ^ Salomon, p. 174
- ↑ According to information from the two caretakers (June 2019) no longer available
- ↑ Ole Hempel at nordart.de
- ↑ according to the plaque at the foot of the sculpture (see Commons File: Meeting of Hildegard Stromberger HH-Haus (3) .jpg )
- ^ Heinz Zabel: Plastic Art in Hamburg - Sculptures and sculptures in public space , Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-923707-15-0 , page 43
- ↑ The Hamburg House Eimsbüttel
- ↑ Meeting point Eimsbüttel - Hamburg Haus labhamburg.de. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
- ↑ Eimsbüttel Book Hall ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2011 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.
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 18.4 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 23.8" E