Stuttgart market hall
The Markthalle Stuttgart is an Art Nouveau building in the city center of Stuttgart at Dorotheenstrasse 4. The Markthalle is now a consumer market in the upper price segment. There is a total of 6,800 square meters of floor space, 3500 square meters of which are for sales stands on the ground floor. The building offers space for numerous service providers and dealers, and in 2010 there were 37 different sales stands. The column-free space in the hall is 60 meters long and 25 meters wide. There are several restaurants on Sporerstrasse and in the market hall.
history
The market hall was built between 1911 and 1914 by Martin Elsaesser with frescoes by Franz Heinrich Gref and Gustav Rümelin and facade sculptures by Josef Zeitler and Jakob Brüllmann at a location that had been a vegetable market since 1864, and initially served as a food exchange with over 400 stalls . The construction costs amounted to 1.85 million marks , the opening took place in January 1914. After severe destruction in the Second World War , the market hall was rebuilt and in 1953 it was fully operational.
Plans from 1973 to demolish the market hall were confronted by a defensive opposition consisting of stallholders, customers, the press and administration (state monument office). The star had previously attested the building to be the most beautiful in Germany. It has been a listed building since 1974 .
Rear facade on Sporerstrasse
Frescoes on the left risalit of the main facade
inside view
Installation for the 100th anniversary
In 1993 a fire destroyed the interior, so that extensive renovation was necessary. Since 2009 there is again a fountain on one of the narrow sides. The Ceres Fountain , which had been in operation in the market hall from 1916 to 1944, was restored at the instigation of the Alt Stuttgart Association .
Façade plastic
The facades consist of rock from the Upper Muschelkalk. The sculptural decoration on the main facade of the market hall in Dorotheenstrasse (opposite the Old Castle ) is the work of the Stuttgart sculptors Josef Zeitler and Jakob Brüllmann . Unless otherwise stated, it is not known which of the two artists created which works of art.
The facade decoration consists of the following reliefs and sculptures:
- Five reliefs by Josef Zeitler, which are arranged next to each other between the rows of windows on the first and second floors. The reliefs 1–5 are numbered from left to right.
- Vase with fruits
- Duck, vase of flowers, rooster
- fish-tailed, naked mermaid with two horns of plenty
- two tail-biting fish, a vase of flowers, a squirrel with a giant nut
- Vase with fruits
- Four lizard figures on the corner pillars of the two main portals.
- Left main portal: Broad central relief with two flanking rectangular fields each. The fields are bordered by dazzling columns, the capitals of which are designed as putti atlases . The middle relief shows an oval medallion with the jumping horse from Stuttgart, surrounded by floral ornaments. The side panels show animals (cock, fox, cancer, fish), which are also framed by floral ornaments.
- Right main portal: Broad central relief with two flanking rectangular fields each. The fields are bordered by dazzling pillars with ornamental capitals . The middle relief shows a round medallion with the jumping Stuttgart horse as a breastfeeding mare, flanked by cornucopia and agricultural products. The four side reliefs show market scenes.
The parapet of the gallery inside the market hall is crowned above the Ceres fountain by a badly damaged relief showing a jumping horse from Stuttgart as a breastfeeding mare.
Lizard figure
Left main portal
Right main portal
Rössle relief inside the market hall, photo: 1914
Tram connection
A special feature of the Stuttgart indoor market is the approximately 25-meter-long piece of meter gauge - track in grooved rail execution at the eastern end of the market hall, that is, towards the side to Münzstraße. It starts at the Dorotheenstrasse entrance and ends at the Sporerstrasse entrance. The track was laid by the Stuttgart trams (SSB) about two years before the opening of the market hall and was intended for the market wagon traffic with trams between Wangen and Karlsplatz, established in 1912 . On the latter, a special stump track was laid for the freight trains in the course of Goerdelerstraße along the former orphanage or at today's Grand Café Planie (formerly Café Sommer). Hedelfingen, Zuffenhausen, Esslingen and Botnang were later included in the market wagon traffic.
Originally, the carts that were used to transport the baskets were supposed to drive into the market hall. However, at the request of the market people, the tram company put special platform trucks into operation shortly after the market cart traffic began, on which the farmers and gardeners could also transport their carts . This eliminates the need to drive directly into the market hall with the tram, because the market feeders could easily pull their cars from Goerdelerstrasse into the market hall themselves. For this reason, the track in the market hall presumably never went into operation and was not connected to the rail network. Today it is the oldest remaining tram track in Stuttgart.
Old market hall
In 1864 King Wilhelm I of Württemberg gave his capital a new market hall. Following the example of the Parisian market halls (" Les Halles "), the Stuttgart Viktualienmärkte were to be united under one roof so that "the wives and daughters of our Wengerter, protected from the bad weather, can offer their products for sale" (Wilhelm I.) The old market hall or vegetable hall was built in 1864 according to the plans of the architect and railway engineer Georg von Morlok and opened on December 27, 1864, half a year after the death of Wilhelm I.
The iron and glass construction of the new building was erected on the site of today's market hall. The hall consisted of a structure made of prefabricated cast iron beams and cast iron profiles. A building with a high central nave was built on an area of 40 by 41 meters and opened onto the old castle and the market square. The three lower aisles running across the nave were lit like this through flat, glass gable roofs.
Contrary to the plan, the floor space of the market hall proved to be too small from the start to accommodate all market operators. It took almost 50 years until this deficiency was remedied by a larger new building by Martin Elsässer.
literature
- Hartmut Ellrich: The historic Stuttgart. Tell pictures . Imhof, Petersberg 2009, pp. 47-48.
- Christiane Fülscher: Stuttgart market hall 1910–1914. Martin Elsaesser construction booklet 04, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-944405-07-0 .
- Hermann Lenz , Günter Beysiegel (ed.): Stuttgart: from 12 years of life in Stuttgart. Belser, Stuttgart 1983, pp. 434-437.
- Neudeutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 11, 1915, pp. 87–89.
- OP .: art market. Art gallery in the storerooms of the Markthalle Stuttgart. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , volume 127, 1993, issue 12, pp. 94–98.
- Felix Schuster: The sculptor Josef Zeitler. In: Schwäbisches Heimatbuch 1937, pp. 56–66.
- Heinrich Straumer : The municipal market hall in Stuttgart. In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , Volume 1, 1914/1915, pp. 47–55. kobv.de (PDF)
Web links
- Markets Stuttgart GmbH
- 360 ° panorama picture in the market hall
- Christiane Fülscher: Market hall . In: Stadtlexikon Stuttgart , April 19, 2018 (Stuttgart City Archives)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '35 " N , 9 ° 10' 46" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts about the Stuttgart market hall
- ↑ # Fülscher 2014 , p. 19.
- ↑ Thomas Borgmann: A bold draft . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung (for the 100th anniversary of the opening) accessed on January 30, 2014
- ↑ Stuttgart Market Hall, Stuttgart
- ↑ Information on the Ceres Fountain on the website of the City of Stuttgart
- ↑ # Fülscher 2014 , p. 27.
- ↑ #Schuster 1937 , pp. 59–60.
- ↑ #Neudeutsche Bauzeitung 1915 , p 89, #Straumer 1914 , p. 50
- ↑ 75 years of suburban trams . (PDF) In: Über Berg und Tal , 3/1985
- ↑ Markthalle Stuttgart - A rail leads nowhere . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten .
- ↑ Markthalle, history .
- ↑ # Fülscher 2014 , pp. 11-13.