Meistersingerhalle

The great hall of the Meistersingerhalle

Stage in the great hall with Steinmeyer organ

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.

I Positive C – a 3 Quintad 16 ′ Principal 8th' Viol flute 8th' Paddock 8th' octave 4 ′ Small set 4 ′ octave 2 ′ Flat flute 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sif flute 1' Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Bright Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 6 ′ Dulcian 16 ′ Krummhorn 8th' shelf 4 ′ Tremulant

II main work C – a 3 Principal 16 ′ Cane-covered 16 ′ Principal 8th' Viola di gamba 8th' Gemshorn 8th' Dumped 8th' flute 8th' Praestant 4 ′ Salicet 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Principal 2 ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Large mix VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Small mix III-IV 1' Cornett III-V 8th' Trumpet 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Trumpet 4 ′

III Swell C – a 3 Pommer 16 ′ Wooden principal 8th' Salicional 8th' Beat 8th' Night horn 8th' octave 4 ′ Coupling flute 4 ′ Quintad 4 ′ Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Schwiegel 2 ′ third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Plein jeu V 2 ′ Cymbel IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′ bassoon 16 ′ Bright trumpet 8th' oboe 8th' Clairon 4 ′ Tremulant

IV Oberwerk C – a 3 Drone 16 ′ Principal 8th' viola 8th' Tibia clausa 8th' octave 4 ′ flute 4 ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 2 ′ Solo cornet V 8th' Scharff IV-V 1 Terzcymbel 4 ⁄ 5 ′ Bombard 16 ′ tuba 8th' Field trumpet 4 ′ Tremulant

Pedals C – g 1 Principal 32 ′ Principal 16 ′ Violon 16 ′ Salicet bass 16 Sub-bass 16 ′ Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave bass 8th' Viol bass 8th' Bass flute 8th' Pedal fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ octave 4 ′ Flute bass 4 ′ Pipe whistle 2 ′ Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Pedal mix VI 2 ′ Bombard 32 ′ trombone 16 Bass trumpet 8th' Clarine 4 ′ Singing Cornett 2 ′

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

Commons : Meistersingerhalle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official homepage of the Meistersingerhalle Nürnberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} http://online-service2.nuernberg.de/eris09/downloadPDF.do?docType=attachment&id=38645
2. ↑ Information on the Steinmeyer organ in the Meistersingerhalle in the free organ database Organ index

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 16 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  E