State Music Academy Rhineland-Palatinate
The Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz in Neuwied-Engers is one of 24 music education institutions in Germany and part of the working group of music education institutions. The academy, which was opened in 2003, acts as a place of cultural encounter and exchange in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and across national borders in promoting music as an essential form of expression of human communication.
goals and tasks
The Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz eV is a central musical education and meeting place and offers its guests favorable working conditions for a wide variety of musical activities. As a reference academy, the Landesmusikakademie is available to all musicians. It is recommended for rehearsal phases for choirs, orchestras and other music groups, as well as a venue for specialist conferences and congresses, but also for smaller meetings of committees, boards and working groups. In addition, she acts as an organizer of its own stimulating events. For this purpose, she invites thematically suitable lecturers. A varied program is offered for all musicians in Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to training and further education offers for music educators from elementary level to the area of elderly care, there are courses for amateur musicians of various instrumental target groups as well as for singers and choir directors. Offers for young musicians are also taken into account, as are courses for senior citizens.
In addition, the Landesmusikakademie acts as an organizer of its own stimulating events. For this purpose, she invites thematically suitable lecturers. Their tasks, multifaceted and varied, include courses for young musicians as well as courses for amateur music. They range up to advanced training for music educators in preschool, school or in the socio-educational field.
historical development
The Landesmusikakademie Rheinland-Pfalz was founded in 1982 by the Landesmusikrat and initially operated as a decentralized institution. In the summer of 2003, a newly founded non-profit association took over the sponsorship. At almost the same time, Prime Minister Kurt Beck opened the Landesmusikakademie in Neuwied-Engers on August 28, 2003 as the central training center in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located directly on the Rhine and in the immediate vicinity of Engers Castle . Both buildings are owned by the State Foundation Villa Musica. The so-called "Meisterhaus" forms the central working place of the academy. Due to the constant expansion of the course and further education program, the academy soon reached the limits of its spatial and personal possibilities.
Due to the high demand from larger orchestras and music ensembles, the spatial program was significantly expanded in 2010. The new auditorium of the Christiane-Herzog-Schule of the Heinrich-Haus has been available since the beginning of 2010 , for which a common usage concept was developed. With a size of 250 m² and a lifting platform, it also offers space for larger projects. The overnight capacity was significantly expanded at the end of 2010 with the completion of the new Musician Courtyard. Planned in harmony with the historical buildings in the area, the musician's court is an architectural gem in the heart of Engers.
Premises
The Landesmusikakademie has a total of 80 beds in 29 rooms. In cooperation with neighboring facilities, up to 120 guests can be accommodated. A large number of rehearsal, conference and meeting rooms are available. In addition, the auditorium of the neighboring Heinrich-Haus can be used for concerts and performances by arrangement. Today's core area of the Landesmusikakademie is made up of the Masters 'House and the Musicians' Court.
The master house
In contrast to the electoral castle of Engers, whose building history comes alive thanks to a large number of testimonies, relevant files and documents for the comparatively young building of the so-called master's house are missing. Only a few sources give information about the construction time and the first purpose of the house, but this is largely in agreement. In a "History of the War School to Celebrate its 50th Anniversary", Berlin 1913, edited by Schellenberg, first lieutenant in the Hessen-Homburg infantry regiment and inspection officer at the war school, it can be read: "In 1902, it was right above the castle / The military hospital with its beautiful bright rooms was built in 1903. The adjutant, the doctor, the porter and the housekeeper also live here. The so-called 'old coach house' used to be in the same place, which was assigned to the castle fort as an official residence before the war school opened. From then on, their furnishings roughly corresponded to that of today's new hospital building. " ... "In the years 1901/1903 the Prussian domain administration (formerly Hofmarschallamt), the owner of the property, had the old stable buildings demolished. The narrow, originally three-story building, built in neo-baroque style, was replaced by the building today Keep the 1903 exterior. "
In 1928 the house was taken over by the St. Josef Society, divided into six apartments and used by the master craftsmen who worked in the neighboring workshops for the disabled. Since then, the building has been called "Meisterhaus". "When the Josefs-Gesellschaft acquired 21 parcels from the Prussian state in addition to the castle in 1928 from Hall 8 of the Engers district (Land Register Engers, Volume 39, Sheet 1078 District Court Neuwied), the Neuwied Cadastral Office described the entire property (in 1930) It emphasized the building insurance value and the building condition and its possible use. It stated that, according to its estimate, the castle with its 40 rooms and 6 cellar rooms was around 170 years old. The master's house, which had 20 rooms, 2 chambers and 5 cellars , was about 30 years old. "... The master house once again temporarily exercised its original function during the Second World War, as can be seen from a report by the painter Mondorf about the time of the bombardment of Engers in 1945:" March 18th. The night from Saturday to Sunday brings new sorrow. According to an order, German pioneers wanted to blow up the bridge that our soldiers had built for a pontoon n is. At that time Engers was outraged about the violation of the Red Cross, because the bridge was very close to the hospital, and our chief physician had achieved nothing at that time, despite protests at the military command. The demolition did more damage to the adjacent master house than the bridge itself, because it is still standing. "The master house has been spared from serious structural changes to this day. For this reason, but also because of its architectural features, the building was opened on the 13th. September 1995 placed under monument protection.
The musician's court
In order to be able to cover the steadily growing interest in the range of courses and rehearsal opportunities for choirs, music associations and school music ensembles, it was decided in 2009 to create a new building directly opposite the Meisterhaus: the musician's courtyard.
Planned in harmony with the historic buildings in the area, it is hard to see at first glance that the new guest house of the Landesmusikakademie is actually a new building. During the construction of the Musicians' Court, great importance was attached to historical architecture that was adapted to the style of the neighboring buildings. The old building fabric was reused wherever possible, for example in the window walls, at the entrance to the vaulted cellar, which was still preserved from earlier buildings in the same place, and in the basalt columns in front of the building and in the inner courtyard. As a special feature, the St. Augustin bell, known as the former Engers hospital, for which the Engers civic association had been looking for a suitable place for a long time, has found a home in the new musicians' court. Since December 2010, 15 new guest rooms with 30 beds have been available.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Schellenberg. History of the war school to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Mittler Verlag, Berlin, 1913, pp. 36/37
- ^ Bruno Zeitz, 70 years of Heinrich-Haus Enger, The new chapel at the castle, Neuwied 1998, p. 19
- ↑ Bruno Zeitz, 70 Years of Heinrich House Enger, The New Chapel at the Castle, Neuwied 1998, pp. 76–78
- ^ Bruno Zeitz, 70 years of Heinrich-Haus Enger, The new chapel at the castle, Neuwied 1998, p. 115/116
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '20.55 " N , 7 ° 32' 38.22" O