Crystal Palace Magdeburg
The Kristall-Palast was a large concert and ballroom in Magdeburg . The building located in the Magdeburg-Leipziger Strasse district now only exists as a ruin .
history
construction
From the summer of 1889, a building called two garden pavilions with colonades was erected in front of the gates of Magdeburg on the Landstrasse leading to Leipzig . The builder was the Kaiserbrauerei A. & W. Allendorff Schönebeck (Elbe) . The Kristall-Palast was opened on June 9, 1892, a Whit Saturday .
The building erected directly on the street included social rooms and a dining room. In 1891 a large hall was built behind it, so that the original building became the front building. The hall contained music stages, an extension for the kitchen and verandas . The hall had a total of 2710 seats.
The Kristall-Palast became one of the most important event centers in the Magdeburg region. In the 1920s, the Kristall-Palast was initially advertised with the slogan Krystall-Palast Leipziger Strasse, the largest concert and ballroom in the province of Saxony, and later with the Kristall-Palast Magdeburg, house of noble societies .
Arrest of Eduard Soermus
On May 1, 1923, a solidarity concert by the Estonian violinist Eduard Soermus for workers' aid for Russia took place in the Kristall-Palast . After the concert Soermus, known as the Red Violinist, was arrested by the secret police . This broke his valuable Vitaszek violin. He was later donated a new, precious violin by teachers and students at the Leipzig Conservatory . In 1975, a memorial plaque designed by Dieter Borchardt and Wolfgang Roßdeutscher was attached to the Kristall-Palast to commemorate the event. However, the board is no longer in this place today (as of February 2008).
In 1937 the front part of the building was demolished. During the Second World War , the remaining hall building served as an internment camp for prisoners of war .
Use after the Second World War
In contrast to other event buildings in Magdeburg, which was badly damaged by the war, the war damage to the building was limited. From 1946 the damage was repaired. The reopening took place on November 26th. In 1953, the first variety program under the title Kristall-Palast was really big! listed. In the following years a large number of performances by well-known artists took place in the Kristall-Palast.
In 1978 the building was converted into a permanent venue for the cabaret Die Kugelblitze . The inadequate maintenance of the building during the GDR era meant that the Kristall-Palast had to be closed by the building authorities in 1986. It has not been used since then and the building has been left to decay.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stories from the Kristall-Palast Magdeburg ( Memento from November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Heinz Gerling , Monuments of the City of Magdeburg. Helmuth-Block-Verlag Magdeburg 1991, ISBN 3-910173-04-4 , p. 19.
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 46 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 7.7 ″ E