Kulturforum Fürth
The Kulturforum Fürth is an event location in Fürth . The building was previously used as a slaughterhouse . Today there are two venues on the site for concerts, cabaret and cabaret, literature and readings, visual arts, films (program cinema Uferpalast), productions by the Stadttheater Fürth, and festivals such as the puppet theater festival and the international klezmer festival.
history
The Fürth slaughterhouse below the town hall, directly on the Rednitz , was developed from 1873 to 1881 based on the Zurich model - an important health policy measure in the growing industrial city. The meat could now be examined for pathogens. The not uncommon hygienic deficiencies in house slaughter were avoided. Of the many original buildings that have been added over time, only the administration and canteen building and the pig and cattle slaughterhouse remain today.
In 1991 the slaughterhouse was obsolete. It was technically obsolete and no longer profitable in its size. The butchers took the iron cattle head over the entrance to the beef slaughterhouse to the new slaughterhouse in Burgfarrnbach. The bronze sculpture "Great Minotaur" created by Gernot Rumpf in 1996 became the symbol of the new cultural forum.
In 2002 the slaughterhouse was completely renovated and converted into today's Kulturforum Fürth.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 49 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 56.4 ″ E