Delmenhorst market hall

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Delmenhorst market hall after renovation in 2015

The Markthalle Delmenhorst is a round building designed by the German architect Heinz Stoffregen and completed in 1920 , which belongs to the building ensemble of the Delmenhorst town hall . It replaced the city's first market hall, built in a half-timbered building in 1896, which had proven to be too small and unsuitable. The hall was originally connected to the town hall by an arcade , but it was demolished in 1955. The building is now used as an event location.

Emergence

In an architectural competition for the new construction of a town hall and the redesign of the market square in Delmenhorst, which was endowed with 3,500 marks in prize money and whose deadline was December 15, 1908, the two designs by the Bremen architect Heinz Stoffregen and his Berlin competitor Gerrit Emmingmann were chosen Awarded two equal prizes (1,500 marks each). Stoffregen's building design and Emmingmann's "excellent design of the marketplace" were particularly praised. In January 1909, the city's magistrate commissioned Stoffregen to plan the implementation of his town hall design, taking into account Emmingmann's square concept. The trade journal Architektonische Rundschau saw Stofregen's planning as “a completely independent, powerful creation.” At the time of the competition, the space to be built on comprised today's Hans-Böckler-Platz, Rathausplatz, Bismarckplatz and the square at the Rathausbrunnen.

In January 1909 Stoffregen created a site plan, which he published in the Delmenhorster Kreisblatt . In the drawing, an arcade reached from the main gable of the town hall to a market hall with a rectangular floor plan and accompanied it. The Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung , however, published a perspective drawing of the town hall in 1912, showing an arcade that ended when the market hall was reached. The hall that can be seen on it, also rectangular in shape, apparently had a hipped roof . In March 1914, Stoffregen designed a hall with an oval basic shape to which an open protective roof stretching across the market square was added in order to achieve a harmonious coexistence of the market stalls inside and outside the hall.

The realized design was a circular building with a double lantern . The interior was cantilevered and well lit by the lamps glazed on all sides. The facade was built from “Oldenburg clinker bricks in various colors”.

construction

Function as a joint: View from Langen Strasse onto the market hall

The first part of the complex, the water tower and fire station, was built from 1909, until 1914 the town hall was built. Due to the outbreak of the First World War , work on the building complex was interrupted and only resumed in 1919. Stoffregen placed the round building of the market hall exactly in the extension of the south-eastern axis of Langen Straße and connected the newly designed town hall square with the historic city.

This fulfilled one of the requirements of the competition, which read: “The main traffic axis of the municipality is Lange Straße, which runs north of the market square. It is also the main traffic feeder to the market place. The necessity of proper access from Langen Strasse to the market square must be taken into account. ” The market hall was then connected to the town hall by an arcade, which was decorated with figures by Ernst von Wachold.

urban function

“It (the market hall) connects the newly designed squares with the historic city. Towards the marketplace as a round shape, it functions as a joint of the various axes that meet here at an acute angle. "

- Nils Aschenbeck in: Heinz Stoffregen 1879–1929 - Architecture between tradition and avant-garde, page 44

use

Until the beginning of the Second World War , the market hall was used in its literal sense; In 1939 there were occasional considerations to demolish it. After the end of the war it served as a canteen for refugee and schoolchildren until it was returned to its old purpose in 1951. With the advent of modern sales vehicles for market buyers, the need for a permanent building dwindled.

Market hall Delmenhorst (2010), condition before renovation

In 1972 the rights of use were granted to a private investor by means of a 50-year lease , who completely changed the interior of the hall in order to set up retail stores in it. Two additional ceilings, many partition walls and new window elements were installed, which completely lost the market hall's original appearance inside. The investor's plan failed: With two exceptions (an ice cream parlor and a tobacco shop), there were no permanent rentals and ultimately the property was almost completely vacant . The tenant let the building fall into disrepair.

In 2002 the building came back into the hands of the city in return for a severance payment. In 2011 and 2012 the now listed market hall was converted into a building for various events. After the work was completed, the market hall was officially reopened on June 21, 2013 and the Delmenhorstern was made accessible again with numerous cultural events on June 22 and 23, 2013. The renovation of the architecturally unique hall and its equipment cost a total of 2.9 million euros. The Delmenhorster Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH has been looking after and marketing the market hall since December 1, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Markthalle Delmenhorst  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 42, 1908, No. 64 (of August 8, 1908), p. 440. (Note on the competition)
  2. ^ Report of the commission elected to examine the question of the inadequacies of town halls. In: Delmenhorster Kreisblatt from January 16, 1909.
  3. ↑ a b Nils Aschenbeck: Heinz Stoffregen 1879–1929. Architecture between tradition and avant-garde. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1990, ISBN 3-528-08746-3 .
  4. ↑ Architektonische Rundschau , Volume 25, 1909, Issue 7, Plate 49 (perspective drawing of the town hall with water tower) (and explanations on this in the unpaginated "1. Supplement" to Issue 7) .
  5. ↑ a b c Gerhard Kaldewei, Birgit Lohstroh (ed.): Departure into the modern age - the Delmenhorst town hall complex by the Bremen architect Heinz Stoffregen 1908/1925. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-393-0 .
  6. ↑ Markthalle history
  7. ↑ Markthalle Delmenhorst , SPD Delmenhorst @ktuell: No. 23 of November 24, 2011
  8. ↑ Reopening of the market hall ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Citizens take possession of the hall - new event center in the heart of the city goes into operation , nwz-online.de, June 24, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2013

Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 52 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 41.4"  E