Pantheon (meeting room)

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The Pantheon was a restaurant with a ballroom in Leipzig . It is best known as one of the oldest meeting places for Leipzig workers.

history

The "Concert and Ball Establishment" Pantheon (around 1900)
The hall construction of the later Pantheon on an engraving by Adolf Eltzner (around 1850)
The garden of the Pantheon (1875)

In 1838 the Collosseum restaurant was built in the Biedermeier style at Dresdner Straße 20 . Around 1850 the Colosseum with ball and concert hall and a beer garden was operated by Christoph Ernst Prager (* 1819), the father of Gustav Adolph Prager, who opened Prager's Beer Tunnel at Nürnberger Strasse 1 on May 8, 1859 . At least in 1863 the Colosseum was renamed the Pantheon .

At times the building also housed a cinema, the UT Dresdner Strasse opened on August 17, 1918 , and Pantheon-Lichtspiele from September 1918 . The cinema with 381 seats was closed again on May 26, 1919. With the construction of the Leipziger Volkshaus , the importance of the "Pantheos" as a meeting place declined.

The hall building of the Pantheon was demolished in 1933. When prefabricated buildings were built between Dresdner Straße and Täubchenweg in the 1970s, the remaining front building was also demolished in 1977. The Office for Architecture and Art-Related Monument Preservation of the City of Leipzig suggested either including the "Pantheon" as an original reconstruction in the new buildings or rebuilding it on the opposite side of the street. The SED district leadership in Leipzig decided on May 31, 1977 to demolish the building. Before the demolition, a photographer was commissioned to document the most important components. Inside the building, individual parts were dismantled with the promise that they would later be shown in a traditional cabinet, including the door that led from the inn into the hall building. The traditional cabinet was never set up. Since then, on the corner of Dresdner Strasse andgerichtsweg there has been a green space and a parking lot in place of the former Pantheon.

The Pantheon as a meeting place

Numerous meetings of the workers' and women's movements took place in the Pantheon .

Memorial stone for the 150th anniversary of the ADAV's foundation

The most important of these was the founding of the first all-German workers' party on May 23, 1863. On this day, Ferdinand Lassalle and twelve delegates from the eleven cities of Barmen , Dresden , Düsseldorf , Elberfeld , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Harburg , Cologne , Leipzig, Mainz and Solingen in the presence of a few hundred Leipzig workers form the General German Workers' Association (ADAV). The ADAV merged in Gotha in 1875 with the Social Democratic Workers 'Party (SDAP) founded by August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht in 1869 to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (SAP), which was renamed the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1890 . The SPD has always considered the date the ADAV was founded as its official founding date and therefore celebrated its 150th anniversary in the spring of 2013 with a ceremony in Leipzig. On the meadow at the former Pantheon site, the SPD wanted to set up a commemorative sculpture to mark the 130th anniversary of its foundation, which the Leipzig Art Commission prevented. A memorial plaque placed instead is no longer available. Burkhard Jung , Sigmar Gabriel and Martin Dulig unveiled a boulder with a memorial plaque donated by the Saxon SPD on May 22, 2013 as part of the celebrations for the SPD's 150th birthday on urban land. The 2.5 ton stone comes from an open-cast lignite mine in the south of Leipzig.

Two years later, from December 22nd to 27th, 1865, the founding meeting of the General German Cigar Workers Association took place in the Pantheon , the first centrally organized association to represent German workers' interests. At that time cigars were made entirely by hand and almost always from home. The association founded by Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche defended itself against these catastrophic working and living conditions . It is the direct forerunner of the food-pleasure-restaurants union, which was founded in 1949, making it the oldest German union .

Speakers in the Pantheon included August Bebel (1891), Clara Zetkin (1893), Wilhelm Liebknecht (1893) and Karl Liebknecht (1900). In 1901, the Pantheon was the location of the First Central German Workers' Singing Festival.

Important gatherings in the Pantheon

  • April 16, 1848: Foundation of the Association of maids by Auguste Schmidt as the first Leipzig Women's professional organization
  • May 23, 1863: Foundation of the General German Workers' Association by Ferdinand Lassalle
  • 22-27 December 1865: Foundation of the General German Cigar Workers Association by Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche
  • May 9, 1886: Assembly of the plumbers' association
  • May 1, 1891: First official Leipzig May celebration
  • January 28, 1893: Lecture by Clara Zetkin on "The women of the proletariat and militarism"
  • June 26, 1899: Union representatives meet and a Leipzig union cartel is founded

Individual evidence

  1. Ulla Heise: A guest in old Leipzig. Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-88034-907-X , p. 154
  2. Ralph Nünthel: Johannes Nitzsche. Cinematographers & Films. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 1999, ISBN 3-930076-85-3 , p. 104
  3. Willy Buschak: Colosseum or Pantheon? in Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche 1825–1905, published by the Heinrich Kaufmann Foundation, Norderstedt 2015, p. 48
  4. Willy Buschak: Colosseum or Pantheon? in Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche 1825–1905, published by the Heinrich Kaufmann Foundation, Norderstedt 2015, pp. 50–51
  5. Kai Doering: In a party mood.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Vorwärts from March 3, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vorwaerts.de  
  6. 145 years of social democracy. Kurt Beck comes to Leipzig for the birthday party on Sunday. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung of May 23, 2008
  7. Steffen Winter: "Brutally rolled over". Where Ferdinand Lassalle once founded social democracy, the comrades are fighting for bare survival . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2007, p. 34-37 ( Online - Oct. 1, 2007 ).
  8. Birthday party at the founding site. SPD celebrates 150th in Leipzig. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, May 23, 2013, p. 1
  9. Gernot Borriss: 150 years ADAV. SPD erects memorial stone on its own. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung from April 11, 2013

literature

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 39.4 ″  E