Moller house
The Moller House is a listed event building in Darmstadt .
history
For the Masonic Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht founded in 1816 , Grand Duke Ludewig I provided a building plot at 10 Sandstrasse. Among the founding members were Grand Duke Ludewig I, who was accepted into the Freemasons' Union in Moscow in 1774, and the architect Georg Moller .
Georg Moller designed the classically designed meeting house, which was inaugurated in 1818. It had a T-shaped floor plan with a windowless rear structure, in which the large assembly hall, the box hall, was, as well as a transverse front building with portico and open staircase , in which an anteroom, a conference room and a lounge were located. In 1826 Philipp Johann Scholl (1805–1861) created the two sphinxes on the left and right of the stairs. From 1854, the lodge was able to acquire the large garden plot to the south and redesign it as a park.
After the National Socialists had banned the lodge in 1933, the Bäulke dance school used the premises. The building was almost completely destroyed in an air raid in 1944 .
When the lodge was re-established immediately after the end of the war, the members decided to rebuild the lodge building that had been destroyed in the war and bought it back in 1948 together with the city of Darmstadt. Only the portico with six stone Ionic columns and the two sphinxes along the outside staircase were preserved.
Between 1962 and 1966, a new building was erected on the same site using the slightly modified column portico according to plans by architects Rolf Romero and Lothar Willius. In 1998 the city of Darmstadt left the “garden hall” and its ancillary rooms to a sponsoring association of the independent theater scene.
Between June 2016 and September 2017, the building was energetically refurbished for 3.1 million euros and made barrier-free.
The Moller House today
The first floor is owned by the Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht and serves as a meeting place for three Masonic lodges, of which the Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht has the largest number of members. Since the end of 1998 the “Theater Mollerhaus” has been using the “Gartensaal” on the ground floor as a rehearsal and performance venue.
literature
- Günter Fries, Nikolaus Heiss: City of Darmstadt = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 144.
- Frölich, Sperlich, pp. 158–160
Web links
- Internet presence of the Moller-Haus theater , accessed on September 25, 2014
- Internet presence of the Masonic Lodge Johannes der Evangelist zur Eintracht , accessed on May 28, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, p. 639
- ↑ Newly renovated Darmstadt Mollerhaus offers the independent theater scene new opportunities to get Echo online v. 09/12/17
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 4.3 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 2.2" E