Culture house "Maxim Gorki" (Radeberg)

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Stele at the site of the former cultural center

The “Maxim Gorki” cultural center was a cultural institution in the Saxon city ​​of Radeberg and the first cultural center in the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) .

history

Planning and construction

After the end of the Second World War , the Soviet Zone began, among other things, to create cultural offers for the population. On the initiative of the SMAD , the construction of culture houses began. In Radeberg, the " Sowjetische Aktiengesellschaft GERÄT in Deutschland, Werk Sachsenwerk Radeberg" (from 1952 VEB Sachsenwerk Radeberg and from 1956 VEB RAFENA-Werke Radeberg ) made several buildings available on the company's own, centrally-located property at Dresdner Strasse 1 for the establishment of such an institution. The buildings, which were to be converted into a cultural center, previously served as a furniture and piano factory, as a textile production site, as a labor camp, hospital and resettlement home . In 1947, the renovation of the complex began under the direction of the Soviet general director of the Sachsenwerk Radeberg, Iwan Michailowitsch Fomin, and the later cultural director of the company, Wolfgang Bergold. The culture house received a large multi-purpose hall (including cinema equipment) with cloakrooms and a public restaurant in one of the 2 main buildings. In the second main building, rooms for a kindergarten were installed on the entire ground floor and a small hall, several rooms for smaller events and individually furnished and equipped club rooms for circle activities were built into the two upper floors. On July 24, 1948, the cultural center was initially opened as the “Klubhaus Sachsenwerk Radeberg” as the first cultural center in the Soviet Zone, later the facility was named after the Russian writer Maxim Gorki . The institution of the culture house was initially the Sachsenwerk Radeberg, later its legal successor VEB RAFENA-Werke Radeberg and the VEB Robotron-Elektronik Radeberg .

use

The Kulturhaus developed very quickly, especially during the GDR era , to become the city's cultural and social center. Parallel to its use as a cultural center, the first kindergarten was opened in mid-1948, primarily for the children of the employees of the Sachsenwerk Radeberg. After the kindergarten was relocated to a specially developed building on the outskirts of the Sachsenwerk in 1953, a ballet hall was set up in the vacated rooms. The event rooms were used as music, billiards and chess rooms, among other things. The first film screening took place in 1949. The ballet group of the Kulturhaus belonged to the GDR delegation at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Havana in 1978 . In addition, various choirs, theater groups (including a workers' theater ), art and photo circles were formed in the Radeberger Kulturhaus, which were open to the entire Radeberg region and could be used free of charge. The painting and drawing circle was founded as early as 1951 , headed by the Dresden painter Rosso Majores from 1952 to 1990 and which still exists today. Concerts, film and theater performances as well as larger events of the cheerful muse were offered regularly. The monthly program preview and the work plans of the circles have been published monthly in the Radeberger Kulturleben . For 1982, 979 events and around 110,000 visitors were recorded in the Kulturhaus. In the same year the facility was awarded the certificate of honor of the central board of the FDGB . In addition to cultural activities, the house of culture was also used for political events, meetings (public and company meetings) and rallies.

After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the Kulturhaus was used for various concerts, as an event building and as a discotheque ("Kulti") until around 1998. From the end of the 1990s, the buildings stood empty and were left to decay.

Demolition and re-use

In 2009, the Radeberg city council decided to demolish the building complex of the former cultural center and to restructure or renaturate the area into a public, park-like green area, which seamlessly merges into the Gelbkehain on the Große Röder and forms a unit with it. The redesign of the site was carried out with the help of funds from the Dresden Regional Directorate from the Saxon program for fallow land revitalization. Paths and meadows were laid out and various trees were planted on the area of ​​the former cultural center.

To commemorate the culture house, a stele with the lettering Kulturhaus Maxim Gorki was erected at the former location .

Others

At the turn of the year 1964/1965 there was a hepatitis epidemic in Radeberg and the surrounding area . As a result, emergency shelters with a quarantine function were set up in the cultural center to accommodate the sick, as the hospital's capacity was insufficient to accommodate the patients in isolation.

Before the city of Radeberg decided to demolish the building complex, the culture house was traded several times as an option for a possible expansion of the cultural offerings of Radeberg. For example, the building was listed in the 2006 zoning plan as a possible location for a municipal indoor swimming pool.

Web links

Commons : “Maxim Gorki” cultural center  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eight decades of company history in Radeberg. Fireworks Laboratory * Sachsenwerk * ​​Rafena * Robotron. Working group operating history ROBOTRON Radeberg, accessed on July 5, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Herbert Böhm: The changes in a furniture factory. In: Neues Deutschland , issue from 28./29. September 1985, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Bernd Rieprich: Dresdner Straße 1, an old industrial site. In: Large district town of Radeberg in collaboration with the urban history working group (ed.): Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte , Volume 7, Radeberg 2009, pp. 28 ff.
  4. ↑ Klaus Schönfuß: The cultural life in Radeberg 1945–1989 as a mirror of time. In: Large district town of Radeberg in collaboration with the urban history working group (ed.): Radeberger Blätter zur Stadtgeschichte , Volume 10, Radeberg 2012.
  5. ↑ One - two and gone! In: Die Radeberger Heimatzeitung, issue of December 10, 2009, p. 1 f.
  6. ^ Revitalization of the former Maxim Gorki cultural center. (No longer available online.) Schubert planning office, archived from the original on October 2, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pb-schubert.de
  7. ↑ Radeberg gets rid of ailing building fabric. State Office of Saxony, June 18, 2009, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Renate Schönfuß-Krause: When the "Stollenweibsen" still besieged the bakeries online resource
  9. ↑ Land use plan for Radeberg with the districts Liegau-Augustusbad, Großerkmannsdorf and Ullersdorf. (PDF; 2.1 MB) City of Radeberg, February 2006, p. 94 f., 113 f. , accessed July 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '53.4 "  N , 13 ° 55' 0.3"  E