Bandelin Culture House
The Bandelin Culture House is a listed, currently vacant event building in Bandelin in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It was completed in 1953 and baptized in the name of the then culture minister and writer Johannes R. Becher , whose plaque is still present at the entrance. He was personally present at the inauguration on November 1, 1953. Until the reunification, it was the cultural center of the then Greifswald district .
In the GDR's first five-year plan , it was decided to set up cultural centers in rural areas. The foundations for the structure were laid down in June 1952 by the SED's II Party Conference. On behalf of the government of the GDR, several cultural centers were built in the country, including in Murchin for the then Anklam district .
The culture house was built on a T-shaped floor plan as a simple plastered brick building without stylistic elements. In the gable triangle above the main entrance, a group of figures depicting the bond between workers and peasants was incorporated into sgraffito plaster. Here, too, emphasis was placed on the alliance between the peasants and the working class.
In the main building, a restaurant and a vestibule with an entrance staircase and cloakroom were set up on the ground floor . The administration, a library and rooms for circles and study groups were accommodated on the upper floor. The large hall with stage is in the transverse building.
After reunification , the property was transferred to the Bandelin community, which was later overwhelmed with the entertainment. The restaurant was given up, the other uses continued to decline. A rump operation was only maintained through job creation measures. These measures were also discontinued around 2010, and since then the empty building has been left to decay. The damage is becoming more and more obvious.
literature
- Dirk Handorf: hoards of order and size. Culture houses of the fifties in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schwerin 1996, No. 3, pp. 40-44.
- Hain, Schroedter, Stroux: The salons of the socialists, culture houses in the GDR. Berlin 1996.
- Ulrich Hartung: Workers 'and farmers' temples. GDR cultural centers of the fifties. An architectural compendium. Berlin 1996.
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: East Western Pomerania. From the Amazon in the north to the imperial baths - a travel and reading book. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , pp. 155–156.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Handorf: Hoards of order and size. 1996, p. 41.
- ↑ W.-D. Paulsen: Bandelin Culture House. Retrieved November 12, 2012 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 50.6 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 51.9 ″ E