Eisenach art pavilion

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ART Pavilion at Wartburgallee 47

The art pavilion ( spelling KUNSTPavillon ) is an exhibition hall built in 1967 in Eisenach in Thuringia . Originally built as a vehicle museum for the Eisenach automobile plant, the listed building is now used for art exhibitions and concerts.

location

The KUNSTPavilion is located on the Wartburgallee 47 property in the southern district of Eisenach, opposite the Kartausgarten with its foyer. To the east, the ruins of the former Eisenach Kurhotel Fürstenhof, which dominate the mountainside, tower over the building, which is surrounded by greenery and modern sculptures.

history

Interior view, 1989 with the automobile exhibition

From the middle of the 19th century until the construction of the Wartburgallee, the popular traditional restaurant and community center "Zur Recreation" was located at the location of the KUNSTPavilion. After the restaurant and its outbuildings were demolished in 1938, the remaining space was parceled out and used as a public green area.

After a restored Wartburg motor vehicle was presented to the public at the Leipzig spring fair in 1967 , the desire for a permanent exhibition of products from the then almost 70-year-old automotive tradition of the Eisenach automobile plant grew in Eisenach. In addition, representative rooms should also be created for consultations and negotiations with foreign general agents. The celebrations taking place in the city in 1967 for the anniversaries 900 years of Wartburg , 450 years of the Reformation and 150 years of fraternity meetings made it possible to order an exhibition hall and build it in Wartburgallee. On October 27, 1967, the exhibition hall built according to a design by the architect Günter Werrmann was officially opened as the "Wartburg pavilion" and from then on offered a permanent exhibition of automobiles made in Eisenach. In addition to the Wartburg motor vehicle, vehicles from the brands Dixi , BMW , EMW and Wartburg were shown, but the “traditional Eisenach workers' movement ” was also honored. In 1977 the one millionth visitor was welcomed and by 1994 three million guests had visited the pavilion.

In the early 1990s, a group of investors from Baden-Württemberg planned to demolish the pavilion and replace it with a parking garage for the nearby Hotel Fürstenhof . The automobile exhibition had to move out of the building in the spring of 1994 because the sponsorship, the future and the concept were unclear. From 2005 onwards, the automobile world eisenach emerged from the vehicle exhibition ; the exhibition hall in the Wartburgallee was initially empty from 1994, was only used sporadically and increasingly fell into disrepair.

The pavilion, as well as the 100 meters distant monument to the history of the German workers' movement at the memorial Eisenacher party congress in 1869 were initially regarded as a foreign body in the area of the former spa complex around the foyer, the dismantling of the pavilion was approved by the building committee of the city and a translocation of Advise monument.

At the initiative of the sculptor Peter Schäfer, the demolition was averted and the building was structurally secured from 2007 and the hall began to be used regularly for contemporary art exhibitions, events, conferences and concerts under the project name KUNSTPavillon - Center for Contemporary Art. The designation as a monument was requested again on the initiative of Schäfer and the association. In February 2013, the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology gave the building the status of a cultural monument under the Thuringian Monument Protection Act . In 2013, a renovation of the building in line with listed buildings began, especially in accordance with fire protection requirements.

Significance for monument protection

The Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology justifies the protection of the exhibition hall with the fact that the building is a rare example in the architecture of the GDR with references to buildings by Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . Large parts of the building are still in their original condition, including all the essential components with the large window areas as well as the interior with the original stone mosaic surfaces, panels and floor slabs up to the revolving stage and the furniture that have been preserved from the time of the vehicle exhibition.

The Institute for New Industrial History classifies the pavilion as a "testimony to the so-called Eastern Modernism". According to the Thuringian state curator , the architecture and interior fittings of the pavilion occupy a "special position for post-war modernism in Thuringia" and the entire former GDR. The references of the pavilion to Bauhaus architecture are the subject of a research project at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Current usage

The KUNSTPavillon offers an open podium for artists and visitors. There are regular changing art exhibitions and auctions of contemporary art, cabaret events as well as blues and jazz concerts by regional and international artists, among others by Dieter Gasde and Alexander Blume . The KUNSTPavillon is also used for school projects, workshops and symposia. An open "STAGE FREI" is offered for up-and-coming talents. Various stages such as the Eisenacher Theater am Markt use the pavilion as a guest performance area. In addition, some steel sculptures under the name metallumvivum can be viewed .

Schäfer and the non-profit association "Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst eV" are jointly offering a non-commercial cultural operation in the pavilion and are promoting the renovation of the cultural monument at the same time.

Web links

Commons : KUNSTpavillon Eisenach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eisenacher car pavilion is a cultural monument , called on February 11, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Heiko Kleinschmidt: Eisenacher Kulturpavillon is again a listed building ; Thuringian General of February 11, 2013, page 1
  3. ↑ a b Birgit Schellbach: Art pavilion is to be renovated , Thüringer Allgemeine / Eisenacher Allgemeine, January 27, 2017
  4. ^ Five years of the Eisenach Art Pavilion
  5. ↑ http://eisenach.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/lokal/kultur/detail/-/specific/Mitreissendes-Silvesterkonzert-im-Kunstpavillon-in-Eisenach-1385230253
  6. ↑ http://www.kunstpavillon.info/

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 11.6 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 29.3 ″  E