Market hall (Chemnitz)
The Chemnitz market hall - also called the belly of Chemnitz - was opened on December 9, 1891. In a construction period of only 18 months, a market hall was built on a 5380 m² plot of land made available by the City of Chemnitz between the Chemnitz River and the former Hedwigstrasse. The traditional clinker brick building with steel skeleton and black sheet metal roofing contains elements of neo-Romanesque , neo-renaissance and neo-baroque .
Construction under the direction of Eduard Hechler (1st Chemnitz City Planning Officer ) began in June 1890 on the former site of the former city wall and the filled-in city moat. The outer structure shows a raised central nave, the surrounding walls of which are glazed and provided with ventilation blades, and a transept crowned with a dome structure. Four 4-meter-wide doorways on both ends allow access to the 4500 m² interior space. In addition to a free space for wholesalers, this also offered space for 358 sales stands. These sales stands were separated from each other by aisles and cross aisles, some were open, some were closed and were arranged in different groups. Three wide staircases, one hydraulic and two manual lifts connected the hall with the cellars underneath, in which 73 individual rooms with a floor area of 10 to 100 m² were created using slatted crates, rented to sellers and even made directly accessible to smaller manual carts after Hedwigstrasse were. The total costs of the market hall system amounted to 536,000 marks .
During the time of the GDR, the building that survived the war was used as a warehouse. It was not until 1994/95 that the renovation of the completely dilapidated building began under the direction of Peter Waldvogel. The market hall was expanded to include cultural and gastronomic extensions and reopened in March 1995. However, due to a lack of customers, the market hall was closed at the end of 2007. A possible re-use initially failed due to the city's financial situation. However, after a careful redesign, the market hall has been fully let again since the end of 2011. A false ceiling was put in, creating a second floor with an additional area of 1450 m². The main tenants are Poliklinik GmbH Chemnitz, a bicycle shop, a restaurant and the Chemnitz cabaret.
The market hall is bordered on one side by the 3700 m² Seeberplatz covered with Spanish granite . From it a 36 m wide flight of stairs leads to Chemnitz. On the other side, not far from the market hall, is the beer bridge . From the 16th century to 1778 the beer brewed in the city of Chemnitz was brought to the storage cellars of the Kaßberg over this bridge, which was renewed in 1869.
literature
- Wilhelm Zöllner: Chemnitz at the end of the XIX. Century. Körner & Lauterbach, Lithographische Kunstanstalt, book and lithography, photography and autotype, Chemnitz 1900, reprint [of the edition] Verl. Heimatland Sachsen, Chemnitz 1999, ISBN 3-910186-30-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ CDU Chemnitz, December 15, 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Free Press, December 17, 2011
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 7 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 56 ″ E