Meistersingerhalle
The Meistersingerhalle is the municipal culture and congress center of the city of Nuremberg .
It is named after the Nuremberg tradition of the Mastersingers , to which Richard Wagner set a monument in his opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg . It is located on the northern Luitpoldhain and has been a listed building since 2007 . Occasional discussions about a demolition and a new building are regularly rejected.
history
After there was no hall for concerts and representative events in post-war Nuremberg due to the destruction of the large hall buildings in World War II , especially the Luitpoldhalle , apart from the Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche , which was built as an "oratorio church" with 2,500 seats, a Competition 1958 Harald Loebermann commissioned with the construction and Wunibald Puchner with the interior design of the hall. Construction time was from 1960 to 1963, the inauguration on September 7, 1963. The construction costs amounted to 30.5 million DM; the built-up area is 12,000 m², the usable area is 26,740 m².
Furnishing
The large hall has 2000 m² in the parquet and 520 m² in the tier and is laid out in a rectangular shape. It is equipped with a stage , side and back of the fleet and a large concert organ , which in 1963 by the organ builder GF Steinmeyer & Co. was built. The slider chests -instrument has 86 registers (6,646 pipes ) on four manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are electric.
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The large foyer has a further 2014 m² and serves as a foyer for breaks and as an exhibition area. In the first 20 years mainly classical concerts were held; the large hall has a seating capacity of around 2100 in concert seating. After that, the multi-purpose room was also used for other events; z. For example, state party conferences , balls , rock concerts and congresses take place here. Both the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra , which has only borne this name since the opening of the Meistersingerhalle (previously Fränkisches Landesorchester ), and the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra organize series of concerts; the Nuremberg concert choirs ( Hans Sachs Choir , Philharmonic Choir, teachers' choir) perform regularly. Guest performances by classical orchestras and soloists also largely take place in Nuremberg in the Great Hall of the Meistersingerhalle.
The small hall (470 m² in rectangular shape) holds 500 seats in the usual seating and is u. a. used for chamber concerts. The Privatmusikverein Nürnberg eV holds eight chamber music evenings there each season. The foyer of the small hall offers a further 550 m².
Both halls are equipped for sound recordings. Currently (as of 2010) around 80 classical concerts and a total of around 800 events take place each year with around 350,000 visitors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c http://online-service2.nuernberg.de/eris09/downloadPDF.do?docType=attachment&id=38645
- ↑ Information on the Steinmeyer organ in the Meistersingerhalle in the free organ database Organ index
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 16 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 19 ″ E