Kleersturnhalle

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Kleersturnhalle, south side
View from the southwest

The Kleersturnhalle is a listed gym in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located north of the historic Quedlinburger Neustadt at the confluence of Weyhestrasse on Kleersstrasse at the address Kleersstrasse 46. It is entered in the Quedlinburg monument register as a riding hall .

Architecture and history

The monumental-looking hall was built in 1874 as a riding arena for cuirassiers stationed in Quedlinburg . It was built free-standing from sandstone blocks in a round arch style. Above the representatively designed portals there are partly heraldic panels. Above the southern entrance is the year 1874. On September 16 and 17, 1899, the hall served as an exhibition hall for the first horticultural exhibition in Quedlinburg. In 1910 it was converted into a gym for girls.

In 1944/45 58 Italian prisoners of war were housed in the hall. The hall was thus one of the satellite camps of the Mittelbau-Dorau concentration camp . The SS guarded it . The prisoners had to work on the Frose- Bleicherode power line , although work was suspended in January and February 1945 due to the severe winter and the prisoners were used to clear snow. The last work assignment took place on April 11, 1945, the clearing of rubble from an artillery attack. On April 12, the SS troops withdrew.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 65
  2. Thomas Wozniak, Quedlinburg, Kleine Stadtgeschichte , Verlag Friedrich Pustet Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2605-2 , page 116 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 33.2 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 9.7"  E