Mathäser
The Mathäser is a building complex on Bayerstraße in a central location in Munich , between the main train station and Stachus . For centuries there was a beer tap here, which was at times the largest in the world.
The constitution of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council in Mathäser in November 1918 marked the birth of the Munich Soviet Republic . During the reconstruction after the Second World War, a cinema center was built next to the restaurant rooms, in which numerous premieres took place. After the total demolition of the building complex, the Mathäser Multiplex cinema was opened on May 21, 2003 .
history
Origin of the "Mathäsers"
In 1690 the first beer tap opened on the grounds of today's Mathäser in Munich's Ludwigsvorstadt . In 1818 the brewer Georg Hartl, owner of the beer tavern Zum Kleiner Löwengarten on what was then Landsberger Straße (today Bayerstraße) , bought Fuchsbräu, which was founded in the 15th century . In previous years, Hartl had already acquired several adjoining properties around his lion garden through exchange and purchase. With that, his property took up almost the entire inventory of the later Mathäser. With the help of the Fuchsbräu rights, Hartl planned the establishment of a new brewery on his property and the closure of the original Fuchsbräu brewery in Schwabinger Gasse. In the same year he received a concession to open his Hartlische Brewery on the Löwengarten area and began building the new brewery building. The rooms of the old lion garden initially served as a beer bar. Hartl ran the business until his death in 1825, after which it passed to his heirs until 1829.
From 1829 to 1832 Max J. Boshart ran the Härtlische Brauhaus , from 1832 to 1844 it was owned by the “brewing count” Theobald Graf von Buttler-Haimhausen and was called Buttler-Bräu . Buttler's heirs leased the brewery to Anton Köck from 1847 to 1855, then to Ludwig Brey until 1857. In 1858 Georg Mathäser finally acquired the property. He initially stopped the brewery and only continued to run the inn. In 1872 he also started brewing again under the name Mathäser-Bräu . After his death in 1874, his widow Anna Mathäser continued the business, and from 1874 to 1884 the brewery, in addition to the name Mathäser-Bräu, also used the former name in the form of the name Zum bayerischen Löwen . In 1884 the conversion into the share brewery for the Bavarian lion took place, vorm. A. Mathäser .
In 1892 the brewery was rebuilt. The former production rooms were converted into beer halls and August Exter built a new wing on the street side with a representative facade in the neo-renaissance style . 1899–1900 the construction company Heilmann & Littmann expanded the building with a two-story hall extension. The upper hall was equipped with a wooden barrel roof and wall paintings by Julius Mössel .
In 1907 Löwenbräu AG bought "Mathäser", which had already become a well-known Munich institution, and expanded it with three beer halls, a ballroom and a beer garden with around 4,000 seats. In 1915 the brewing business was stopped.
Headquarters of the revolution in Munich 1918–1919
At the end of the First World War , a workers 'and soldiers' council was constituted in the Mathäser-Bräu under the chairmanship of Kurt Eisner on the night of November 7th, 1918 . Around 1000 people who had separated from a pacifist mass demonstration on Theresienwiese gathered in the ballroom.
This was the hour of birth of the Munich Soviet Republic . The Mathäser location was probably chosen because of its spaciousness, its popularity and the central location between the main train station , Wittelsbacher Palais , state parliament building , foreign ministry, residence and police headquarters ; it subsequently served as the headquarters of the revolutionary movement. After the suppression of the revolution, the Mathäser returned to its original function as a beer pub.
Oskar Maria Graf
The Munich artist Oskar Maria Graf called for the revolution in 1919, for which he rented the Mathäser, but no one came to the revolution.
Russian measure
In order to keep the soldiers' councils of the Red Troops (Communists) who were occupying Mathäser operational longer, the wheat beer in stock in Mathäser was "stretched" with lemonade. The Russian measure could be derived from this in popular parlance .
From 1957: the "Mathäser-Bierstadt"
During the Second World War , the Mathäser was totally destroyed in air raids by the Allies . It was not until December 1957 that the newly built Mathäser-Bierstadt opened on the 8100 square meter area . Ernst Eckstein, the conductive architect of Löwenbrauerei had along the Bayerstraße in reinforced concrete construction, a five-storey, two gable strength building structure realized, a shopping mall , the beer city with 16 quite differently equipped places with seats for a total of about 5000 people, the Mathäser film Palace ( as the 129th cinema in the state capital) with a 340 square meter foyer , 1200 seats in the cinema and the largest screen in Germany with 21 by eight and a half meters at the time of construction , 4600 square meters of retail and office space and an underground car park for 180 vehicles.
A press release explained the intention of the building project: “[...] But the Mathäser was deliberately not designed as a fashionably ephemeral glass building, but in line with the building tradition of our alpine region. The exterior and interior of the building should not only please a small group, but as many as possible and invite them to linger. It should also attract the strangers who visit our Munich city. "
The wheat beer cellar with 500 seats was under the management of the tenant couple Reinbold, the tenant couple Georg and Rosa Reiss ran the cinema and the other restaurants: the Schwemme next to the main entrance with a glass kitchen that was supposed to whet the appetite of the guests offered 280 seats, the vault had 260 seats, the Bartl , soldiers , Tölzer , Mathäser and Steyrer-Hanns rooms had a total of 170 seats, the bar had 30 seats, the arcades 130, the shooting range rooms 27, the beer hall , Munich rooms and the Zunftstüberl had a total of 1,055 seats, the small ballroom offered 335 guests, the large ballroom 1450 seats and finally there was a beer garden with 450 and the terraces with 648 seats.
The wing on Schlosserstrasse was 105 meters long and had a basement, ground floor and two upper floors. The large ballroom had a size of 1100 square meters and a surrounding balcony, there were also various smaller halls, adjoining rooms and cupboards as well as the central large kitchen. At the time, they were particularly proud of the first and most modern fully automatic dishwasher in Germany, which could clean up to 20,000 plates and cups in one hour, polish them to a high gloss and prepare them preheated to 80 ° C. The "new" Mathäser also had two butcher shops , a total of five kitchens and seven bars, and offered 470 employees a job. In the beer city, an average of 52,000 liters of beer , 42,000 meals, 15,000 veal sausages , 9,000 bratwursts and 22,000 pairs of pork sausages were consumed per week .
The opening program in the ballroom ran from December 21, 1957 to January 15, 1958. In 1958, Mathäser was represented at the World Exhibition in Brussels by the Reiss family, the owner and tenant, with the Oberbayern restaurant . In the almost 40 years that followed, the beer city experienced many lavish festivals. In 1962 the Löwenbrauerei in Bordighera on the Italian Riviera organized an “Upper Bavarian Beer Festival”, which was a complete success, as thanks the city of Bordighera sent five thousand carnations the following year to decorate the “Spring Festival” in the beer town's ballroom. In 1968, Löwenbräu AG encouraged its involvement in the German pavilion “Restaurant Bavarois” on the site of the world exhibition in Montreal . In 1969 the “Petit Munich” branch was opened in Montreal and was sold again at the end of the 1980s.
The Mathäser-Filmpalast became a popular premiere cinema because of its size. The opening film in 1957 was " The Beggar Student ". With the arrival of the mass medium of television in the living room of the population, the era of large cinemas came to an end in the 1970s, and in 1978 the Georg Reiss film theater company transformed Munich's largest cinema into a cinema center consisting of four theaters. After the conversion, the Mathäser opened with Sam Peckinpah's Convoy , it started the wedding of Hollywood - action cinema . Since Hall A, with 600 seats, was still Munich's largest cinema, many premieres continued to take place there. The large ballroom was the scene of the German Film Ball until the restaurant was closed.
New building from 1999
In 1996 the cinema opened with the last screening of Mars Attacks! and Bierstadt started operations, in 1998 the buildings were demolished. In 1999, the building owner that the began Zurich Group Invest Europe (Germany) GmbH is part of German Herold Lebensversicherung AG opened the new building, after four years of construction on 21 May 2003 with the idea of The Matrix Reloaded in all 14 halls and 4,283 seats, the new multiplex Cinema . The building was designed by Peter Lanz with his Munich architectural office LAI | Lanz Architekten Ingenieure planned as a shopping, entertainment and business center. The Kinopolis Group operates the Mathäser Filmpalast , where many film premieres and special events such as the opening event of the Munich Film Festival , the Asia Film Festival and the English-language Munich International Short Film Festival take place. However, due to the construction of the new multiplex cinema with 14 halls, the cinemas in the vicinity of Mathäser also suffered severe financial losses. Some even close, such as the Karlsplatz cinemas.
The building with a total gross area of 33,400 square meters, which cost around 175 million euros, now has a restrained facade towards Bayerstraße with an inwardly hanging, rung-free glass wall. The computer-controlled light wall as advertising space is dominant and cannot be overlooked in the outside space. The finely structured facade facing the narrow Schlosserstraße is determined by the regular sequence of escape stairs with house-high protective walls made of wire mesh.
The freely divisible areas for retail and gastronomy are directly connected to the cinema. From the underground and S-Bahn in the basement of the Stachus as well as at ground level from Bayerstraße, the visitor first arrives at the heart of the facility, the central rotunda . From there, escalators connect the three main levels on which the cinema halls are arranged.
Dolby Cinema
In May 2019, Mathäser was the first cinema in Germany and the third in German-speaking countries to install a Dolby Cinema . It was planned and built by Kinoplanung Batisweiler. To see a film in this hall, the visitor has to pay an extra charge.
Movie theaters
The Mathäser-Filmpalast has 14 cinemas.
| Surname | Places | wheelchair driver |
Sound system (before digital projection) | Sound system (current) | THX | projection | canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dolby Cinema (previously Cinema 1) |
312 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 7.1, Dolby Atmos | No | 4K ( Dolby Vision ) | 15.7 m × 6.5 m |
| Cinema 2 | 335 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 15.6 m × 6.5 m |
| Cinema 3 | 236 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 11.5 m × 6.2 m |
| Cinema 4 | 162 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 10.6 mx 5.7 m |
| Cinema 5 | 141 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 11.2 mx 4.7 m |
| (m) K6 (before cinema 6) |
833 | 6th | Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Surround EX, DTS, SDDS-8 |
DCI 5.1, 7.1, Dolby Atmos | Yes | 4K | 20.6 m × 8.6 m |
| Cinema 7 | 220 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 13.0 m × 5.5 m |
| Cinema 8 | 241 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 13.2 mx 5.5 m |
| Cinema 9 | 443 | 2 | Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Surround EX, DTS, SDDS-6 |
DCI 5.1, 7.1 | No | 2K | 15.3 mx 6.15 m |
| Cinema 10 | 372 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 15.8 m × 6.6 m |
| Cinema 11 | 334 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 15.6 m × 6.6 m |
| Cinema 12 | 230 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 11.9 mx 5.0 m |
| Cinema 13 | 162 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 11.5 mx 4.8 m |
| Cinema 14 | 142 | 2 | Dolby Digital, DTS | DCI 5.1 | No | 2K | 11.1 mx 4.7 m |
Trademark law Mathäserbräu
At the beginning of 2014, Südbier Unternehmergesellschaft acquired the trademark rights to the former Mathäserbräu beer brand . Behind it are three young brewers who want to commemorate the proclamation of the Free State of Bavaria by Kurt Eisner in Mathäserbräu in 1918 . Their slogan is "Named after the birthplace of the Free State of Bavaria".
literature
- Nicolette Baumeister: Architecture of the New Munich. Munich building culture 1994-2004. Verlagshaus Braun, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935455-50-X , p. 77.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The building history is based on Denis A. Chevalley, Timm Weski: Landeshauptstadt München - Südwest (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-584-5 , p. 105 f .
- ↑ Christian Schäder: Munich brewing industry from 1871 to 1945. The economic and historical development of a branch of industry . Tectum Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-8288-8009-6 .
- ↑ Karl Stankiewitz: From is and gar is! Taverns, theaters, cafés, night clubs and other lost places of Munich conviviality. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-96233-023-1 , pp. 184 .
- ^ Dolby Cinema, Mathäser Munich. In: Kinoplanung Batisweiler. Retrieved on July 13, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Abendzeitung Germany: Experience cinema like never before: Germany's first Dolby Cinema - from now on in Mathäser - Abendzeitung Munich. Retrieved July 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Hall information . List of all cinema halls in Mathäser Munich.
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Mathäser from December 21, 2016: Big name for a young beer | BR media library VIDEO. In: www.br.de. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 49 ″ E
