Münster music hall
The project to develop a music hall in Münster , Westphalia , has been discussed since the late 1980s.
history
As early as 1989 there were proposals to locate a music hall in Münster. In 1993, on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of the city, a competition for the redesign of the inner-city palace square was called, with special attention to the construction of a concert hall. The next few years saw little activity in the music hall. Only in 2000, when Wolfgang Clements promised to leave the area free to the city and to promote a museum for contemporary art, did the project come back into discussion. From these two projects the Kulturforum Westfalen was forged, with a concert hall operated by the city and the museum with the regional association Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) as sponsor. By December 2003, five concepts had been selected.
A floor space of 3500 m² for the music hall and 3900 m² for the museum was seen as the framework, and the southern Hindenburgplatz, which mainly serves as a car park, but also hosts the Send festival three times a year, was selected as the location . In the following months, only detailed questions were clarified. The project began to falter when the city limited its stake to 40%, but a maximum of 12 million euros, as part of an austerity program at the end of 2004. The rest of the planned costs of 30 million euros would have to be provided by private investors.
At the end of 2006, the LWL then withdrew in order to instead push ahead with the renovation of the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History on Domplatz . The city then deleted the museum from its plans. At the beginning of 2007, according to the Musikhalle Foundation, commitments for 10 million euros from private sources were available.
In October 2007, a majority of representatives from the CDU, SPD and FDP (against the votes of the Greens and other smaller parties) in the city council reaffirmed their will to build a music hall, despite the perception of the increasing criticism from the population. In November, a citizens' initiative was formed against the controversial building project. By means of a referendum with 24,400 supporters, the council and the mayor were forced to involve the citizens of the city in the decision on the project and to carry out a referendum on the construction project. The referendum was held on April 27, 2008. In the run-up to the vote, Jürgen Rüttgers renewed the state government's promise in March 2008 to transfer the entire Hindenburgplatz to the city free of charge if the music hall was to be built. In the referendum, in which around 45% of those eligible to vote (and thus more than necessary) took part, around 70% voted against spending city funds on this controversial project. The citizens have stopped the planning of the city, at least for the time being.
literature
- Eberhard Grunsky: The planned place - unrealized projects . In: Schlossplatz - Hindenburgplatz - Neuplatz in Münster. Plenty of space for 350 years . Workbook of the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia, No. 11 , 2012, p. 81-117 .
Web links
- Public resolution proposal by the city of Münster from September 27, 2007 with a detailed description of the history of the music hall in Münster (PDF file; 115 kB)
- Media portal Westline : Musikhalle Münster: What is it about? ( Memento from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) by Carsten Schulte, March 4, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Concept on the website of the Kulturforum Münster ( Memento from February 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ More Democracy e. V .: Citizens' petition against municipal co-financing of a music hall
- ↑ City magazine Echo Münster : Rüttger's offer: Either Halle and Hindenburgplatz or nothing at all ( memento of the original from March 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
