Dynamo youth culture center

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The youth culture center Dynamo is located on the Limmat in Zurich , opposite the Platzspitz . It was opened in 1988 and is organizationally part of the social services of the city of Zurich. The dynamo offers rehearsal, concert and event rooms for music , dance and theater . It rents rooms for courses , workshops and self-help groups . It has a media workshop and a metalworking workshop, a workshop for snowboards and a jewelry, textile and screen printing workshop . The Dynamo includes a restaurant and the Werk21 event cellar .

history

From the spa to the Drahtschmidli brewery

"Brauerei zum Drahtschmidli" under Gustav Steuble between 1882 and 1906.

The Drahtschmidli on the Limmat was opened as a spa in 1772. When the property passed to the brewer Wilhelm Reiser von Unterstrass on August 3, 1842, he built a brewery on the site in 1843. In October 1848 it came to Colonel Gottfried von Meiss von Teuffen through the estate of Wilhelm Reiser. He leased the brewery to Zyprian Diem from Vilsingen from what was then the Principality of Sigmaringen . He had little success with the brewery and so two years later (1850) it was sold to a master brewer from Freiburg im Breisgau , Johann Karl Friedrich. He was unsuccessful and had to file for bankruptcy on January 10, 1854 .

The brewery fell back to the mortgagee Gottfried Meiss, who leased it to two brewers: Wilhelm Bader von Muttensweiler in the Oberamt Biberach and Konrad Butscher von Kappell in the Oberamt Ravensburg , who together operated the brewery under the company name "Bader & Butscher". On October 13, 1855, the property changed hands again and fell into the hands of the beer brewer Martin Haller von Atzenweiler from the Grand Duchy of Baden , who came to Switzerland as a political refugee in 1849 . He brewed beer in the Drahtschmidli until his death on May 8th, 1882. During his business activity he was likely to have achieved sales of a maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 hectoliters. The brewery fell to the widow Anna Haller nee Kessler. In November of the same year she leased it to a relative, the brewer Gustav Steuble from Zurich, who bought the brewery from the widow on December 20, 1887. His brother Meinrad Steuble was responsible for accounting in his company. When the Lettentunnel was being built, blasting caused the beer in the storage cellars to become cloudy and could no longer be sold. A court awarded the company substantial damages. Nevertheless, the brothers only ran the brewery for a short time and eventually closed it. The customers were taken over by the Hürlimann brewery . In 1906 the building and its facilities came into the possession of the city of Zurich.

Youth house idea

The Vereinigung Ferien und Freizeit (VFF), which was founded as an umbrella organization for Zurich's youth groups in December 1925, developed the idea of ​​a youth center in the 1930s. She demanded a house from the city that should “provide the young people with rooms for their meetings”. In 1938, President Ferdinand Böhny contacted the welfare office and was allowed to prepare an application for a space program for the city council on his behalf. This program included club and craft rooms, leisure workshops, a small hall, a large multi-purpose hall with a stage and secretarial rooms for the VFF. The youth center should also be in close contact with the youth hostels and possibly accommodate the city's career advice service. The Second World War changed the political priorities and so the petition was not pursued.

At the same time, a youth center was planned for the Landi from 1939, for which the VFF was also committed and financially involved. The “Verein Jugendhaus” was founded for the Landi and consisted of at least 110 youth associations and institutions. The youth center was built a little apart from Belvoirpark by unemployed youths according to the plans of the architect Alfred Altheer and included a club room, a leisure workshop, a reading room and a social room with a stage, film and slide projector.

After the war, the Zurich Women's Association (ZFV) wanted to organize alcohol-free “dancing” events in response to the booming “dancing” that took place based on the American model and served alcohol. The women's association found a co-sponsor in the VFF who had experience with young people. The first "Dancing" took place as a carnival event in 1948 in the "Karl des Grossen" room in the Volkshaus . The cooperation went so well that the women's association supported the youth house idea in return. A provisional committee was formed to set up an initiative committee for the youth center. Politicians and representatives of the economy, churches, schools and youth organizations could be won over for this. The architect and painter Hans Fischli was also a member of the committee, which developed a youth house project on its own initiative. After a press campaign, the founding meeting of the initiative committee for a youth center in Zurich took place on September 9, 1949 in the restaurant "Karl der Grosse" . Marie Hirzel (1881–1969) of the women's association, who came from a respected Zurich family, became president, and Max Schulz, who was then president of the VFF, was vice-president. On March 9, 1951, the initiative committee was transformed into the Zurich Youth House Association (VZJ). Thanks to the income from three youth festivals in 1951, 1953 and 1956, the association had assets of over 700,000 francs.

The question of location now had to be clarified. The following places were evaluated: Linth-Escher-Schulhaus, former animal hospital, Drahtschmidli-Areal, Areal Knechtli, Wasserwerk- / Nordstrasse, Kronenwiese, Platzspitz , Westend-Terrasse, Selnaustrasse 9, Werdstrasse 4, Carpenter's workshop, Rösli- / Weinbergstrasse. Instead of starting with a new building right away, they wanted to temporarily move into the buildings of the former Drahtschmidli brewery. On September 4, 1956, the project was submitted to the city ​​council , which accepted it and gave notice to the then main tenant, the Hürlimann brewery, for the spring of 1957. In October 1956, the plans for the new traffic management made it clear that under the future circumstances it would be possible to build a new building on the Drahtschmidliareal.

Wire Schmidli youth center

The planning of the new building struggled with difficulties and the work was delayed. In order not to wait any longer for the new building, the rooms of the former building were renovated by the VJZ on October 1st, 1960. In addition, there were between 60 and 80 young people who renovated individual rooms in groups in the evenings and Saturday afternoons, under the guidance of older young people who had completed their apprenticeship as a craftsman or a specialist teacher. There were group and club rooms, a discotheque, office space with study rooms for groups, a library, a reading and task room, a room for an advice center, an amusement arcade, a café, a photo laboratory , a jazz cellar , various studios, a projection room Roof theater and much more set up.

dynamo

On April 25, 1982, the Zurich electorate approved a new building costing 15 million francs as an extension of the former Drahtschmidli to build a central Zurich youth center under the auspices of the youth welfare office with 71.8% approval. That was a reaction to the opera house youth riots of 1980 . The new “Dynamo” youth center was opened in 1988. The youth center should rent rooms for events and courses. 60,000 visitors found their way to the youth center in the first year. In the first four years, the offer was expanded to include a graphics studio, a metal workshop and a restaurant. Although operations at Platzspitz were adversely affected by the open drug scene , the number of visitors increased to 75,000. In 1993, voters in Zurich approved an annual loan of CHF 1.55 million to ensure operations. Although the situation with the drug scene worsened considerably, as it moved even closer to the youth center due to the relocation to the upper Latvian area, the number of visitors could be increased to 100,000. In 1996 the new Office for Socioculture took over the patronage. A textile and jewelry workshop was added by 1998, and the Werk21 music club was set up in the basement for smaller concerts and parties. The Dynamo established itself as a suitable location for concerts with alternative music styles. This made itself felt with good visitor numbers (130,000) in 2000. In 2001 the Office for Socioculture was dissolved and the Dynamo was subordinated to the Social Center Exhibition Street of the Zurich Social Services. In the years to come, the dynamo was rebuilt and there were changes in the range. So the barefoot disco and the painting studio had to give way to the sound engineering courses and the directing courses. The Dynamo also hosted courses for possible careers and rented rooms for meetings. The demand for music rehearsal rooms also increased. The offer has been expanded with dynamic days and holiday courses for high school students. The number of visitors rose to 210,000 by 2007 and the net budget over the last seven years was around 2.1 million francs.

literature

  • Thomas Kunz: The Zürcher Jugendhaus Drahtschmidli, origin and development . Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty I of the University of Zurich, 1993

Web links

Commons : Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Schoellhorn, The brewing trade and the breweries of the Canton of Zurich . Buchdruckerei Winterthur vorm. G. Binkert, Winterthur, 1922
  2. ^ A b Thomas Kunz: The Zürcher Jugendhaus Drahtschmidli, origin and development . Dissertation, Philosophical Faculty I of the University of Zurich, 1993, p. 52 - p. 57
  3. ↑ Thomas Kunz, p. 57 - p. 69
  4. ↑ Thomas Kunz, p. 79
  5. ↑ Thomas Kunz, p. 111
  6. ↑ Thomas Kunz, p. 114
  7. ↑ Voting database of the City of Zurich statistics [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-zuerich.ch  
  8. ↑ Statistics City of Zurich, Quartierspiegel Unterstrass  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2006@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadt-zuerich.ch  
  9. ^ Social Department of the City of Zurich, press release, youth culture center Dynamo celebrates its 20th birthday on June 5, 2008.
  10. ↑ Guido Schwarz: History of the Dynamo Youth Culture Center - 20 Years of Dynamics ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2014 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. (PDF; 23 kB), Social Services of the City of Zurich, Media and Communication Administration Center Werd, Zurich, June 5, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-zuerich.ch

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '59.9 "  N , 8 ° 32' 21.5"  E ; CH1903:  683 113  /  248635