Officer's Casino (Lübeck)

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former officers' casino

The officers 'casino in Lübeck is a former officers' casino of the military administration at Hüxtertorallee 2 and 2a. Today the building is used privately.

history

Plan to build the new officers' dining establishment
The Gießeler Höhe

On November 6, 1806, from the place where the former casino is today, Murat's and Soult's troops fought against the defenders of the Hüxter and Mühlentores, the Prussian regiments of Owstiens and v. Tschammers , and won the so-called Battle of Lübeck under their Marshal Bernadotte .

Almost 100 years later, a new building was necessary for the Lübeck Regiment, as the building it had previously used on the corner of Königstraße and Fleischhauerstraße had to give way to the construction of a second administration building, the later property at Fleischhauer Straße No. 20 .

The following places were available for the new officers' mess:

  1. Beyond the Moltkebrücke south of Moltkestrasse on the Wallbrechtschen lands ,
  2. on the Hüxtertorallee and the canal between the Lübeck Conservenfabrik and the boathouse of the Lübeck Rowing Society,
  3. the part of the facilities located west of the canal below the Krähenstrasse on the filled area of ​​the Krähenteich,
  4. on the Hüxterdamm opposite the Lübeck bathing establishment ,
  5. the square on the Hüxterdamm and the Hüxtertorallee, adjoining the Rathgens property to the east,
  6. the facilities on Falkenplatz,
  7. the square on the lower Johannisstrasse east of the Johanniskloster ,
  8. the space in the grounds in front of the castle gate, which is delimited by Roeckstrasse , Falkenstrasse and the Schwartzkopf property,
  9. that to Professor Dr. Genzken property at Hüxterdamm No. 18 ,
  10. occupy a space from the facilities of the Hüxtertorallee and the canal, north next to the boathouse of the Lübeck rowing society

The casino was to be built at a cost of 111,500 marks on the approximately 2600 m² square. It was initially planned for the regimental staff and the officers of the two battalions, but it was made so large that there was enough space available for a third battalion that might have to be deployed.

The state calculated annual rental income of 5,900 marks for two battalions, and 7,400 marks for a third party to be relocated to Lübeck. The property initially extended to the canal, but should be reduced by up to 1000 m² along the canal if required by the military treasury.

On July 10, 1905, the Senate authorized the building deputation to build an officers' mess in the Hüxtertoranlage next to the house of the rowing club . Objections of the citizens , in particular the St. Jürgenverein , who spoke out against reducing the size of the facilities for non-public purposes, were unsuccessful. Completion was scheduled for 1906. On March 19, 1907, the officers' mess was handed over to the military treasury and the Lübeck Regiment for use. The construction costs were ℳ 130,000, which corresponds to ℳ 17.50 per m³ of enclosed space.

Architecture and design

Inside

The design of the building should correspond to a country house adapted to the environment. The construction program made a distinction between the actual casino rooms, the living quarters for the staff and utility rooms. The floor area of ​​the common rooms was a large building group, with the utility rooms taking up almost two thirds of the basement. The living quarters of the staff and an officer were in the converted attic. The arrangement of the rooms on the first floor was given by the local conditions. The entrance to Hüxtertorallee, the social and living rooms to the north and west with a view of the facilities and the canal , the ancillary rooms to the south with a view of the canning factory at that time.

Regulating the roof layout was more difficult due to the shape. The pillar-supported arbours in front of the library and breakfast room gave the floor plan a uniform shape and led to the pan-covered gable roof that dominated the building . In themselves there were living quarters for the housekeeper, orderlies or accounting officers. Smaller gaps in the roof completed the grouping and complemented the architecture of the hall .

One entered the interior through the main entrance with its skylight decorated by a lantern and came to an anteroom with a gray-blue plinth , green walls and ceiling surface. A hall that formed the center of the building was connected to them. The common rooms were lined up on the northern long and western end of the head, and on the southern side the side rooms such as B. the cloakroom . Next to this was a sideboard and the externally recognizable tower staircase to the upper living rooms of the staff and the kitchen rooms in the basement . On the other side of the cloakroom there was a separate staircase to the officers' apartment on the upper floor . Both stairs were accessible from the courtyard to general traffic, such as suppliers or orderlies.

During larger festivities, the hall served as a social or reception room, with the cloakroom, which was located in an arched opening , being closed off by a curtain. A black marble fireplace with an open fire in the dining room of the old casino on Koenigstrasse had found further use here. There was a dark-framed mirror above him. The wall surfaces were kept in white, with the exception of a low blue-gray plinth from which the blue-gray paint on the door differed only slightly. In front of this, the antlers from the former hunter's room came into their own. The series of social rooms began with the library (blue), playroom (green), smoking or reception room (red), breakfast room (golden yellow) and hall (white with light green fields). The woodwork was painted white and varnished.

The reception room was given a special equipment through the installation of a chimney niche , the ceiling of which was lowered to the door height to achieve an increased spatial effect . A picture ledge divided the wall surface at the same height. Above that, a broad frieze closed the stenciled leaf hangings and the dull red wall surfaces. The furniture in the room, consisting of club armchairs covered with red saffiano leather , a sofa , an oval table, a splendid cupboard and window curtains, were a gift from the regiment's passengers .

The adjoining breakfast room , also known as the small hall , led over to the ballroom. Its main source of light was on the west side in the form of the oval bay. Its seven-part, almost round-looking double window opened a view of old Lübeck from the mill - to the castle gate . The viewer's point of view corresponds almost to that of Geffken's woodcut , a reprint of which also hung there. Another bay-like niche is visible on the north side in the form of an arbor with an exit to the terrace .

A sliding door separated the breakfast room from the 9.15 m large hall with a clear height of 6.30 m. Its ceiling and walls were made of stucco, except for a 1 m high wooden parapet. Its corners were emphasized by pilasters that carried military emblems over the cranked main cornice . On the eastern long side, two furnace niches with a chimney-like structure protruding far into the ceiling protruded. The wide vertical structure emphasized in the window axes was met by the surrounding main cornice, which is only interrupted by the stove niches. A cove ceiling arched over this with the viewing flaps for the skylight windows and the opening to the musician's box . The musician's box above the breakfast room was closed off by a sliding window to the hall. The central pillar between the two southern windows of the head wall was decorated with a picture of the Kaiser donated by General Neßler and painted by the Düsseldorf artist August Ibing .

The hall furnishings, donated by the Lübeck Senate , consisted of green curtains, two sideboards, a horseshoe-shaped table , 50 leather chairs with pressed-in Lübeck eagles and two electric chandeliers . A double door led from the hall to the large garden terrace and from there a flight of stairs led into the garden that extended to the canal.

The rooms on the upper floor were grouped around a large arched hallway that corresponded to the hall on the ground floor. All woodwork was based on the old Lübeck forms. The same applied to the lieutenant's apartment on the upper floor, from whose living room the balcony above the main portal was accessible.

During the First World War, the regiment conquered the so-called Gießeler Höhe on the day the battle for Verdun began . Hans am Ende created a painting of the battle that from then on hung in the casino.

  • View into some of the described rooms (1907)

  • Smoking room

  • Breakfast and dining room

  • Ballroom with a view of the dining room

  • Stairwell

Outside

The external architecture of the building was designed to give expression to the particular meaning and purpose of the building. The entrance side on the Hüxtertorallee with its soaring gable was modeled in forms that were used by the Lübeck patricians in the 18th century. Its gravel forecourt with the high fence were reminiscent of driveways from the Baroque era . The strongly emphasized portal and its two pyplon-like masts should represent .

The Lübeck eagle in the gable marked the building as state property .

The even distribution of windows on the north front suggested a row of rooms in the living and common rooms . The south side, designed much more irregularly, indicated adjoining rooms. The west side showed the dining or breakfast room accented by a small gable with a round bay window . Next to it was the large dining room, characterized by its greater height and richer exterior architecture, as a wing structure attached to the entire large dining room .

  • Outside view (1907)

  • North side

  • Main facade

  • South view

Use after 1918

As a result of its resolution, the offices of the Lübeck Soldiers 'and Workers' Council were located in the officer's casino from November 12, 1918. The delegates 'meetings took place in the large hall of the officers' mess .

After the First World War , the casino continued to be used as an officers' casino until 1924 . From then on it was an officers 'home for Infantry Regiment No. 6 and from 1934 only an officers' home.

In 1951 it served the Lübeck district association of the German Red Cross , before it became the Haus Deutscher Osten, the seat of the Association of Expellees , Lübeck district in 1954 , with various sub-organizations. This remained so until 1976. Since then, the former casino has been the seat of a joint law firm.

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  • The new officers' dining establishment , In: Lübeckische Blätter 49th year 1907. No. 10 (from March 10, 1907)
  • Construction of an officer's dining establishment , In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1905, No. 30 (from July 23, 1905)
  • 10th anniversary of the “Lübeck” regiment and inauguration of its regimental house In: Von Lübeck's Towers, 17th year 1907, No. 12 (from March 23, 1907)
  • The new officers' dining establishment of the "Lübeck" regiment. , In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, year 1907, No. 9, (from February 24, 1907)
  • Otto Dziobek : History of the Infantry Regiment "Lübeck" (3rd Hanseatic) No. 162 , Officers' Association formerly 162 , Verlag Gerhard Stalling, 1922 Oldenburg i. D.
  • Address books of the city of Lübeck

Web links

Commons : Officers' casino  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a soldier who is assigned to serve as a waiter in officers 'and non-commissioned officers' quarters
  2. ^ Helmut Klöpping: The painter August Ibing 1878-1959. Life and works . Cologne 1983, 83 pages
  3. ↑ Today the Lübeck version of the Gießeler Höhe is in the depot of the Lübeck Museum of City and Cultural History.
  4. ↑ Notice. In: Lübecker Volksbote 25th vol., No. 265, edition from November 11th 1918.
  5. ↑ The People's meeting of the workers' and soldiers S. Council. In: Lübecker Volksbote 25th vol., No. 283, edition of December 4th, 1918.
  6. ↑ The use was reconstructed from the Lübeck address books in the reading room of the Lübeck city library and the city ​​archive .

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 45.6 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 43.2"  E