Orangery (Kempten)

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Orangery in Kempten

The Orangerie in Kempten (Allgäu) is a 1780 north completion of Court Gardens built, late Baroque structure with forms of Classical . The city ​​library has been located in the listed building since 1963 .

history

Orangery around 1810

The orangery was built under Prince Abbot Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein . Originally the courtyard garden consisted of three terraces with four artificially created fish ponds for carp . Because more than a hundred people had to be supplied by the court kitchen every day, it was necessary to have sufficient quantities of food available nearby.

After the secularization , the orangery and the meadows in the north became private property in 1804. In 1915 a small plane crashed into the west wing. In 1923 the house was sold to the city.

In 1935, the city transferred the orangery, which had previously served as a city shelter for the homeless, together with the adjacent land for the construction of the Prince Franz barracks to the Wehrmacht free of charge. In order to create enough space for the barracks, plans arose to demolish the orangery, but this was rejected. The officers' mess was finally set up in it.

After the Second World War, the baroque building temporarily served as accommodation for displaced persons and as a youth hostel . In 1959 it was rented by the city.

The city library has been located in the building, which was completely renovated in 1962 for a horticultural exhibition, since 1963. On March 17, 1966, the west wing and the domed hall burned out, causing damage of 500,000 DM . About a third of the book inventory was destroyed. After the reconstruction, the library could be reopened in 1967. Today (as of 2010) it has around 120,000 loanable media . The district library is located in the Rotschlößle in the St. Mang district .

Since 2011 there has been talk of expanding the library building or moving the library to the stables . For financial reasons, the city decided in December 2012 that the decision should only be made by the next city council, whose election took place in 2014. On Easter Sunday 2013, the 50th anniversary of the city library was celebrated in the orangery.

2017 beat Mayor Thomas Kiechle (CSU), the same time also chairman Board of Directors of Sparkasse Allgäu is a new city library above the planned new underground car park of the savings bank in the neighboring city park , more precisely on the undeveloped Zumstein meadow in front, which came on the part of citizens and City Council to mixed minds. The city should contribute to the costs of the Sparkasse's underground car park. The city's cultural representative, Silvia Rupp from the CSU, did not find this idea a good one and spoke out in favor of a repeated examination of the possibilities in the historic orangery. A new use of the orangery after a possible move out of the library was not communicated by the city (status: March 2017).

description

The orangery is an elongated, two-storey building with a three-sided central pavilion and two three-storey corner projections. The former single-storey, risalite central pavilion was converted to two storeys, provided with a triangular gable and today has only a few late Rococo stucco work, because most of them were destroyed by the fire in 1966. The central risalit and the corner pavilions are structured vertically by pilasters . Apart from the square plastered fields between the floors, the seven-axis main wings of the building largely do without facade decorations. The vaulted ceiling of today's reading room showed a fresco with the allegory of the four seasons until 1938 .

  • Stucco in the reading room

  • Garden decorated with palm trees

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Ziolkowsky: Life in the Hofgarten - The family history of Maria and Robert von Reichert in the Orangery and in the Hofgarten zu Kempten , 1997, p. 12
  2. ↑ Bernd Ziolkowsky: Life in the Hofgarten - The family history of Maria and Robert von Reichert in the orangery and in the Hofgarten zu Kempten , 1997, p. 84
  3. ↑ Bernd Ziolkowsky: Life in the Hofgarten - The family history of Maria and Robert von Reichert in the Orangery and in the Hofgarten zu Kempten , 1997, p. 83
  4. ^ Alfred Weitnauer : Mayor Merkt . Life and achievement. 1st edition. Verlag für Heimatpflege, Kempten 1967, p. 42 .
  5. ↑ Family celebration on Easter Sunday. In: Allgäuer Zeitung , March 26, 2013, No. 72, p. 27.
  6. ↑ Der Allgäuer : Kempten Orangery devastated by fire; March 18, 1966
  7. ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg: Monuments in Bavaria . City of Kempten: ensembles - architectural monuments - archaeological site monuments. tape VII.85 , ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , pp. 54 .

Web links

Commons : Orangery  - collection of images

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 49 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 47.9 ″  E