Hemmerleinhalle

The Hemmerleinhalle was a former concert hall in Neunkirchen am Brand in Upper Franconia .

history

The Hemmerleinhalle was built in 1973 as a multi-purpose hall and held up to 3500 spectators. It was named in honor of the former mayor of Neunkirchen, Georg Hemmerlein . From 1977 concerts of international music greats took place there regularly. The organizer Rainer Hänsel originally wanted to work in Nuremberg , but found the halls there to be too expensive. He struck gold in the market town of Neunkirchen am Brand, about 20 kilometers north of Nuremberg. Nevertheless, some of the posters said “Hemmerleinhalle Nürnberg, Germany”.

In reference to the heavy metal acts that were frequently booked there in the 1980s and their specialist organ Metal Hammer as a periodical , the venue was also referred to as the “Behammertenhalle”, phonetically similar to “be hammerd” and including Hemmerlein.

Concerts

Until the hall closed in 1988, the following performed there: Manfred Mann's Earth Band , Venom , Metallica , AC / DC , Frank Zappa , Udo Lindenberg , BAP , Nena , Black Sabbath , Dio , Scorpions , Iron Maiden , Kiss , Motörhead , The Police , Van Halen , Uriah Heep , Dire Straits , Anthrax , Slayer , Megadeth Tom Petty and many more. (see list)

List of concerts (selection)

date	group	trip	Guest	comment
4th August 1975	The Les Humphries Singers
1976	1? Summership Festival		Budgie , Osibisa , Omega , Scorpions, Amon Düül II , Jailbird,	Some groups did not appear.
January 31, 1977	Manfred Mann's Earth Band		Racing_Cars	Originally the concert was supposed to take place on January 23rd. But since that day was a Sunday and the Sunday driving ban was in effect at the time , it had to be postponed.
March 20, 1977	Uriah Heep	Firefly
April 6, 1977	Bad Company	Burnin Sky
October 28, 1977	Bob Seeger & Silver Bullet Band
January 25, 1978	Uriah Heep	Innocent Victim
February 20, 1978	Udo Lindenberg	Panic nights
February 24, 1978	Status quo	Rockin 'All Over the World Tou r
February 25, 1978	Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention	European Tour 78		2 concerts in a row 19: 00-22: 00; (Excerpt of the live recording see web links)
April 24, 1978	Lake	LAKE II	Chi Coltrane
May 1, 1978	The Commodores
May 14, 1978	Blue Öyster Cult	Specters	Johnny Cougar	Laser show
September 7, 1978	Patti Smith Group	Easter
5th October 1978	Meat loaf	Bat Out Of Hell
October 7, 1978	Rory Gallagher			Live recording as a YouTube compilation see web links
October 14, 1978	AC / DC	Powerage
17th October 1978	Black Sabbath	Never say die	Van Halen
October 21, 1978	The Moody Blues
October 28, 1978	Barclay James Harvest	XII
November 23, 1978	Ian Dury & the Blockheads
2nd December 1978	Parliament
1978 1979	Boney M,, Dr. Hook, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, Kool & the Gang
15th January 1979	Uriah Heep	Fallen Angel
20th January 1979	Eberhard Schoener	Laser 79	The Police
January 26, 1979	Status quo	If You Can't Stand the Heat Tour
February 02, 1979	Udo Lindenberg	Dröhnland Symphony
17th February 1979	Nazareth	No mean city	Whitesnake
March 10, 1979	Journey & Pat Travers
March 17, 1979	Roxy Music
March 30, 1979	Frank Zappa	European Tour 79
May 1, 1979	Ted Nugent	Weekend Warriors
May 14, 1979	Aerosmith
May 19, 1979	Thin Lizzy	Black Rose Tour
May 30, 1979	Dire Straits	Communique tour
June 15, 1979	The tubes	Remote control
September 24, 1979	Rory Gallagher
20th October 1979	Rough cut
October 30, 1979	Alvin Lee Ten Years Later		Louisiana Red
November 7, 1979	REO Speedwagon
November 13, 1979	The Kinks	Low budget
November 20, 1979	UFO
2nd December 1979	AC / DC	Highway to hell	Judas Priest	last concert with Bon Scott
17th December 1979	Hot chocolate
January 19, 1980	Blue Öyster Cult		Shakin Street
February 6, 1980	Rainbow
02/17/1980	McGuinn & Hillman		Lee Clayton
February 20, 1980	Barclay James Harvest	Eyes of the Universe
February 21, 1980	Barclay James Harvest	Eyes of the Universe
March 4th 1980	April Wine & Motörhead	Harder ... Faster / Bomber
March 15, 1980	Wishbone Ash	Just testing
March 21, 1980	Nazareth	Malice In Wonderland
March 22, 1980	Status quo
April 20, 1980	Uriah Heep	Conquest	Carlsberg
April 27, 1980	Scorpions	Animal Magnetism
April 28, 1980	Sammy Hagar	Lous and Clear	Riot
??. May 1980	Johnny Guitar Watson
5th June 1980	saga	Images at Twilight	STYX
June 6, 1980	Black Sabbath	Heaven and Hell	Shakin Street	New singer: Ronnie James Dio
June 8, 1980	Van Halen	World Invasion Tour
June 15, 1980	The J. Geils Band	Love stinks
June 26, 1980	Frank Zappa	E European Tour 80
June 29, 1980	Roxy Music	Flesh + Blood	Wire
23rd August 1980	The 3rd Golden Summernight Concert		Ted Nugent , Jonny Winter , Molly Hatchet , Saxon , Wishbone Ash , Pat Travers Band , Gillan , Judas Priest	3. Open air in the parking lot and outdoor area of ​​the hall
September 11, 1980	Kiss		Iron Maiden
September 12, 1980	Journey	Departure tour
September 13, 1980	The Police
September 27, 1980	Udo Lindenberg
September 30, 1980	Nina Hagen	Discomfort
3rd October 1980	Cheap trick	All Shook Up Tour
October 23, 1980	Weather Report
November 25, 1980	The Kinks	one for the road!	Nine Below Zero
November 27, 1980	The Kinks 1980	Charlie Daniel's band
January 26, 1981	Thin Lizzy	Chinatown
February 16, 1981	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	chance
17th February 1981	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	chance
19th February 1981	Judas Priest	World wide lightning	Saxon
March 6, 1981	Rough cut
March 14, 1981	Mike Oldfield	The European Adventure Tour
March 28, 1981	April Wine	The Nature of the Beast	crocus
April 13, 1981	Status quo	Never to late
April 22, 1981	Whitesnake	Come on 'Get It	Slade
May 9, 1981	Dire Straits
May 26, 1981	Ted Nugent	Scream Dream	Mother's Finest
October 6, 1981	ZZ top		Rose tattoo
November 12, 1981	Rush		Girl school
November 25, 1981	Little River Band
November 28, 1981	Accept , Def Leppard , Judas Priest
1st December 1981	Motorhead	Ace of Spades
February 1, 1982	saga		Woolly Wolstenholme's Maestoso
March 15, 1982	Thin Lizzy	Renegade
March 30, 1982	Spliff , extra wide , interzone , great climate			Levi's rock festival
April 24, 1982	Iron Maiden	The Beast on the Road	Trust
May 21, 1982	Scorpions		Blackfoot
May 22, 1982	Blue Öyster Cult		Molly Hatchet
October 18, 1982	Mike Oldfield	Five Miles Out World Tour
October 19, 1982	Mike Oldfield	Five Miles Out World Tour
October 30, 1982	Motorhead	Iron Fist	killer
November 13, 1982	Rainbow		Girl school
December 21, 1982	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
January 25, 1983	Whitesnake		Ozzy Osbourne
February 10, 1983	Spliff
March 10, 1983	Nena , Relax , Hubert Kah , Markus			Opening show of the Levi's Rock Tour
March 13, 1983	Udo Lindenberg	Odyssey tour	Gianna Nannini
April 15, 1983	Saxon	Power and the Glory
April 23, 1983	Thin Lizzy
May 5th 1983	Nazareth	2XS tour
May 22, 1983	Blue Öyster Cult & Molly Hatchet
June 11, 1983	Mother's Finest
September 27, 1983	Black Sabbath		Diamond Head , Lita Ford
October 9, 1983	The Commodores	Funk soul at its best
November 8, 1983	Stray cats
November 6, 1983	Kiss
November 29, 1983	Dio		Waysted
1st December 1983	Michael Schenker Group		Iron Maiden
2nd December 1983	Iron Maiden	World Piece
December 20, 1983	Ozzy Osbourne		Y&T
January 24, 1984	Blue Öyster Cult
7th February 1984	Venom		Metallica
February 14, 1984	Judas Priest	Metal Conqueror	Ted Nugent
4th March 1984	Saxon	The World Crusade
March 16, 1984	Whitesnake		Headpins
March 18, 1984	Udo Lindenberg	Hammering the gods
March 26, 1984	Gary Moore			Solo tour, including with Ian Paice
April 4th 1984	Nena
19th August 1984	Mike Oldfield	Discovery Tour
October 19, 1984	KISS		Bon Jovi
October 26, 1984	Dio		Queensryche
October 28, 1984	Scorpions		Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
3rd November 1984	Spliff
November 9, 1984	Iron Maiden	World Slavery Tour	Mötley Crüe
2nd December 1984	Metallica	Bang That Head That Doesn't Bang Tour	tank
December 30, 1984	Christmas Metal Meeting	No remorse	Motörhead , Mercyful Fate , Girlschool , Helix, Talon
March 2, 1985	Nazareth
May 14, 1985	Lee Aaron		crocus
October 8, 1985	Saxon	Innocence Is No Excuse	Pretty Maids
October 19, 1985	Venom		Exodus
November 21, 1985	Gary Moore	Run for Cover	Mama's boys
January 26, 1986	Mötley Crüe		Running wild
February 6, 1986	AC / DC		Fastway
February 21, 1986	Blue Öyster Cult		Tokyo Blade
February 26, 1986	saga
March 13, 1986	Accept		Dokken
April 20, 1986	Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Criminal Tango
April 30, 1986	Dio		Keel
May 17, 1986	BAP	ahl men, slick
October 16, 1986	Metallica	Damage Inc. Tour
October 19, 1986	Metallica		Anthrax
October 29, 1986	Status quo	In the army now	Waysted
November 8, 1986	Nazareth
December 9, 1986	Motorhead	Orgasmatron
December 11, 1986	Iron Maiden	Somewhere on tour	WASP
January 31, 1987	Metallica	Damage Inc. Tour	Metal Church
February 12, 1987	Anthrax		Crimson Glory, Celtic Frost
April 25, 1987	Slayer	Reign in Pain European Tour
1987	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers		none
April 3, 1988	Meat loaf	Lost Boys and Golden Girls
May 21, 1988	Megadeth , Testament , Sanctuary , Nuclear Assault

Reuse

After the concert, the hall was used as a tennis hall; since 2008 there has been a store for hairdressing equipment there. Only the neighboring Hotel Selau has survived economically to the present .

Web links

• Photos of the autograph wall in the backstage area
• Youtube compilation about live recording from February 25, 1978 with Frank Zappa @Hemmerleinhalle (10:59)
• Youtube compilation about live recording from October 7, 1978 with Rory Gallagher @Hemmerleinhalle (1:59:00)
• Concerts at Hemmerleinhalle, Neunkirchen am Brand, Nuremberg. Last.fm , accessed January 25, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ STYX Tour 1980
2. ↑ Nena Levi's rock tour
3. ↑ Stray Cats Tour 1983 (Backlink: Concerts in Germany ) ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Kiss, Lickitup Tour 1983
5. ↑ Gary Moore Solo Tour 1984 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Spliff, Schwarz auf Weiss Tour 1984
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ Sex & Drugs in an ugly hall at neunkirchen-am-brand.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '21.31 "  N , 11 ° 8' 0.74"  E