Murchin District Culture House
The county cultural center was the time of the GDR , a cultural center in Murchin , a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ). It is a listed building .
history
In the 1950s the government of the GDR issued the slogan “culture in the country”. The goal was to build state-sponsored sites in central locations to promote education, entertainment and socializing. The building in Murchin served as a prototype for comparable buildings in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, such as the Mestlin cultural center with its catchment area Parchim and Schwerin . The building in Murchin went back to the successful work of the employees of the machine-tractor station (MTS), who received the traveling flag of the GDR Council of Ministers in 1950 and 1951 . Paul Scholz , Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR, advocated the construction of a new cultural center in Murchin in order to create a comparable center for the region around Anklam .
The building was built between 1952 and 1954 under the direction of Gräning and Goltzow . The magnificent building was opened on May 1, 1954 as the largest MTS culture palace at the time. He received the name of the communist politician and Stalinist dictator in Hungary Mátyás Rákosi . From 1964 it was used as a district culture center for the region around Anklam. After the fall of the Wall , it operated as a large discotheque under the name Hyperdome for a few years . The building has been empty since 2002 and is becoming increasingly dilapidated.
On May 23, 2019, the Ostsee-Zeitung announced that the Murchin District Culture House will be auctioned on May 25. In an auction of the North German property auction in Rostock, the house of culture, which is due for renovation, including the 18,000 square meter property, is to come under the hammer for a minimum bid of 10,000 euros. A few days later, the Nordkurier , citing a dpa report, announced that the cultural center had gone to a telephone bidder for 65,000 euros.
architecture
The two-storey plastered building was built in the style of socialist classicism with a T-shaped floor plan and a hipped roof . The main facade is structured by a portico-like central risalit with a flight of stairs and parallel rows of windows across both floors. Architecturally, the building is based on the Hellerau Festival Hall . On the left facade there is a relief by Walter Bullert with the title “The work of agriculture in the four seasons”. It shows how farmers work their fields, sow and harvest grain and use it to produce flour.
Inside there were wall paintings by Herbert Wegehaupt , Oskar Manigk and Manfred Kandt , which aimed at German-Hungarian friendship.
literature
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , p. 304
- Michael Lissok: A gift from the state to the working people: the Murchin House of Culture near Anklam; Analysis of architecture and design , essay in Contemporary History regional , Volume 11/2007, pp. 34–44.
Web links
- Literature about Kreiskulturhaus Murchin in the state bibliography MV
- Report on the creation of the monument lists as well as on the administrative practice in notifying the owners and municipalities as well as on the handling of change requests (status: June 1997; PDF, 934 kB)
Single receipts
- ↑ Birgit Sander: From 10,000 euros: The former GDR cultural palace in Murchin is for sale In: Ostsee-Zeitung from May 23, 2019.
- ^ Anne-Marie Maaß: GDR property: Murchiner Kulturhaus is auctioned in Rostock In: Nordkurier from May 24, 2019.
- ^ Former GDR cultural palace Murchin auctioned In: Nordkurier from May 26, 2019.
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 28.4 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 42.3" E