Odeon (Munich)
The Odeon in Munich is a former concert hall ( Odeon ) from the early 19th century, which was converted into the headquarters of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior following severe war damage . It is located on Odeonsplatz named after him , the starting point of Ludwigstrasse . Its current address is Odeonsplatz 3.
The Odeon was built by Leo von Klenze from 1826 to 1828 and used as a civic concert and ballroom. For design reasons, the facade facing Odeonsplatz was designed as a mirror image of the Palais Leuchtenberg designed by the same architect , so that its function could not be read from the outside. The hall has a semicircular exedra for the orchestra and rows of columns placed one above the other. In ten round niches behind the exedra there were busts created by Johannes Leeb of what was then considered to be the most important composers in music history ( Beethoven , Mozart , Gluck , Handel , Haydn , Vogler , Méhul , Weber , Cimarosa and Winter ). The ceiling was decorated with frescoes in the Nazarene style , namely Apollo among the Muses by Wilhelm Kaulbach , Apollo among the Shepherds by Adam Eberle and The Judgment of Midas by Hermann Anschütz . Until 1985, the Hercules Hall , built after the war in the Residenz, served the purposes that the Odeon previously served. The Odeon was "one of the most extraordinary classicist solutions for the concert hall building task".
In a bomb attack in World War II, the building was destroyed except for the surrounding walls. From 1951 it was rebuilt as the Ministry of the Interior by the architect Josef Wiedemann . The facade was rebuilt by 1954. The former concert hall became an inner courtyard . Numerous requests from music and architecture lovers for the reconstruction and reuse of the hall for concerts were unsuccessful. In 2007 the courtyard was covered by a glass roof ( lattice shell ) by the architects Ackermann und Partner and can thus at least partially be experienced as a space again.
literature
- Robert Münster: 117 years of sounding life in the Odeon. In: Musik in Bayern , Tutzing, 61 (2001), pp. 53–64 ( online as a PDF file; 114 kB , accessed on November 13, 2015).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Josef H. Biller, Hans-Peter Rasp: Munich - Art & Culture . 15th edition. Ludwig, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-7787-5125-5 , p. 314 .
- ^ Heinrich Habel: The Odeon in Munich and the early days of public concert hall construction . de Gruyter, Berlin 1967, p. 49-57 .
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Bavaria: Vol. IV, Munich and Upper Bavaria, p. 804
- ↑ Prof. Josef Wiedemann: The Reconstruction of the Odeon 1950-51 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 80 kB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 36.4 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 37.2 ″ E
