Art Nouveau festival hall
| Art Nouveau festival hall | |
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 View from Mahlastrasse |
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| place | Landau in the Palatinate |
| architect | Hermann Goerke |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Construction year | 1905-1907 |
The Art Nouveau Festival Hall , more rarely referred to as the Ludowici Festival Hall , is a multifunctional event location in the city of Landau in the Palatinate . The listed building is one of the most important Art Nouveau buildings in southern Germany .
Building history
As early as 1904, "the foundation of a Landau personality whose name should not be mentioned under any circumstances" transferred a donation of 600,000 marks to the city administration in order to offer "joy a house and art a gate" .
The Art Nouveau festival hall was built from 1905 to 1907. The costs amounted to around 800,000 marks; the city of Landau carried the 200,000 marks not covered by the donation. The architect was Hermann Goerke , who later also planned the Landau Bismarck Tower . The sculptor Gustav Adolf Bernd created the main portal and side portal .
It was only after 1925 that it became known that the donor was the brick manufacturer August Ludowici . Efforts to change the name to "Ludowici-Festhalle" in memory of the donor failed; this suggestion was only partially able to gain acceptance in everyday language.
Between 1997 and 2001 extensive renovation and alterations were carried out by the Danish architecture firm Dissing + Weitling . The building was equipped with modern stage, lighting and sound technology as well as conference and event technology.
use
The use of the Art Nouveau festival hall includes cultural events such as concerts, plays and lectures, but also social events such as receptions and balls as well as private events such as company presentations. For several years now, the graduation of the University of Finance has been awarded at a ceremony there . In addition, the Open Canal Landau uses some rooms on the ground floor. The Lions Club rooms are also on the ground floor . From the re-establishment in 1950 until the end of the division of Germany, the German Burschenschaft held most of its boys' days in the Art Nouveau festival hall.
swell
- ^ Stadtholding Landau in the Palatinate: Art Nouveau festival hall
- ↑ Original text of the press release (1904), source: memorial stone in the foyer of the Art Nouveau festival hall
- ^ Albertine Geiger, Jürgen Piechaczek: 100 Years of the Goetheschule , Kerker Druck, Kaiserslautern, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024818-4 , p. 42; (Digital view)
Web links
- Stadtholding Landau in the Palatinate: Art Nouveau festival hall
- Information on renovation and renovation
Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '44.9 " N , 8 ° 7' 15.1" E