Odeon (Leipzig)

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The Odeon around 1850
As the Sanssouci ballroom around 1900
The ballroom around 1930

The Odeon was an event building in Leipzig that existed under different names until 1943.

history

In 1847 an event building with a large hall was built at the north-western end of Reichels Garten on the property at Elsterstraße 12, at the corner of Promenadenstraße (today Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße). Elsterstraße was created from a main garden path in the Apelschen and later Reichelschen gardens and was named that way in 1840. The new building was named "Odeon". Numerous posters in the Leipzig City History Museum show music and sporting events there, but also meetings of political associations such as the Leipzig Fatherland Association .

In 1868 the Odeon was renamed "Tonhalle" (sometimes also Thonhalle ). The nature of the events remained similar. The use by the Leipzig Workers' Education Association , which also held its annual foundation festivals here from 1873 to 1878, is striking . With the entry into force of the Socialist Law in 1878, the use by political associations decreased.

In 1895 the building was renamed again, now in "Sanssouci-Festsäle" (also Etablissement Sanssouci ). A postcard from this period shows a large beer garden on the southeast side . At the end of the 1930s, events organized by the National Socialist Community, Kraft durch Freude (KdF), appeared.

The Sanssouci ballrooms were destroyed in the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 . After the war, an office building was built here on Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße. The address Elsterstraße 12 now has an adjacent residential building.

literature

  • Inner Westvorstadt - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG 1998

Web links

Commons : Odeon (Leipzig)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 120 .
  2. ↑ Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Encyclopedia Leipziger street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , p. 63 .
  3. ↑ Leipzig City History Museum (enter "Odeon"). Retrieved September 16, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 22.4 "  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 58.3"  E