Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle

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The Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle in Mönchengladbach , Hohenzollernstrasse 15, was built between 1901 and 1903 in Art Nouveau style. Architects were Friedrich Wilhelm Wertz and Paul Huber from Wiesbaden. At that time, private donors raised 300,000 marks and thus around half of the construction cost. The hall was named after Emperor Friedrich III. (1831–1888), who was emperor for only 99 days.

In 1925 and 1937 the hall was rebuilt and then had 1,000 seats and a surrounding balcony. The building survived the Second World War without major damage and was converted into a concert hall in 1959 after a new theater was built. In 1964 the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle burned down and was rebuilt from 1967 to 1969. In 1977 it suffered considerable damage from another major fire. The interior was then changed and the balcony was omitted.

The conference and congress building is used socially and culturally in a variety of ways. At the back of the hall is the Kaiser Friedrich restaurant with a view of the colorful garden .

Monument description

For the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle, built in 1902/03, the first urban festival hall that could be used as a concert and theater hall, an exposed location was chosen: the area of ​​the Villa Heiming on the "Bökel", the hill on which the end of the 19th century the Kaiserpark was laid out. The main facade and main portal of the hall was aligned with what was then Bahnhofstrasse (since 1910 Bismarckstrasse).

In 1905 the music pavilion was built as a separate structure on the edge of the park . This pavilion is designed as a shell-like hemisphere and has a richly decorated stucco surround . It is crowned by a city coat of arms held by two putti .

1964 Roof fire during repair work, reopening in 1969

This first urban festival hall with the possibility of using it as a concert and theater hall is an outstanding building in Mönchengladbach, the protection of which is in the public interest for socio-historical, urban (exposed location) and architectural reasons. The outdoor facilities that were built in parallel and relate to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle, which have largely been preserved and decisively determine the effect of the hall, must be regarded as part of the monument.

The building was entered under no. H 051 on January 26, 1989 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

literature

  • Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( archive.org [accessed June 2, 2012]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pb.moenchengladbach.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 11.9 ″  E