Pekarna (Maribor)
The Pekarna (German bakery , full name: Pekarna Magdalenske mreže ) is a large non-profit cultural center in Maribor , Slovenia . It is located in the center of the city on the site of a former army bakery , from which the name Pekarna is derived. A large number of events are offered in the Pekarna, it is known nationwide and is a popular meeting place for alternative young people.
History and location
The former rusks bakery was built in 1897 by the Joint Army in Marburg an der Drau (now Maribor), which was then still part of Austria, in order to supply the surrounding barracks with baked goods. The facility was also used as an army bakery in the two world wars and the subsequent Yugoslavia . After the break-up of Yugoslavia and the dissolution of the Yugoslav People's Army , the buildings stood empty from the end of 1991 and fell into disrepair. The Pekarna was occupied by three different groups in 1994 . (Association of Dolphin Friends, the alternative music workshop, as well as through the Galery House). Today's Pekarna was formally founded in 1996 through these three initiatives and then grew into the largest alternative cultural center in northeastern Slovenia.
From 1999 to 2001 the area was owned by the Slovenian Ministry of the Interior. The city of Maribor offered him another piece of land for exchange and in 2001 became the owner of the Pekarna. Initially, the army bakery was on the outskirts of the city, but due to the continuous growth of the city towards the south, it is now in the center of Maribor. In the immediate vicinity of the Pekarna is the Magdalena Park, from which the full name Pekarna Magdalenske mreže is derived.
Infrastructure and facilities
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The Pekarna site covers an area of 8402 m². It consists of six buildings, some of which have several floors, and a small, overgrown green area which is surrounded by the buildings. Today, the Pekarna includes event halls, vegetarian / vegan restaurants, a theater, a hostel , a second-hand library, a gallery, rehearsal rooms, internet and reading rooms as well as offices. Most of the activities on offer take place in the afternoon and evening hours. The largest facilities on site are the two event halls Hladilnica and Gustaf.
In addition to some fantasy figures welded from leftovers, there are also two art objects at the entrance to the Pekarna. They represent deceptively real a field howitzer and a German police car riddled with bullets . Both objects are replicas.
Social and artistic activities
Mainly exhibitions, concerts, theater performances, film screenings, festivals, workshops etc. take place in the Pekarna. On average there are 250 events per year. Infopeka is an independent project. It is a kind of info shop that mainly offers information for young people between the ages of 14 and 27, but older visitors are also welcome. In particular, information material on cultural, social and political topics is offered free of charge in the Infopeka. The use of internet access, newspapers, magazines and various software is also free.
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Three sports clubs (diving club, climbing club and paragliding club) and the Ciproš second-hand library with around 100,000 books are housed in the Pekarna. Various artists also live and work in the Pekarna. There are occasional police operations, as soft drugs are handled in a relaxed manner on the premises , but these are prohibited by law in Slovenia.
Ever since the area was occupied in 1992, the Pekarna has organized the No Border Jam , a much-noticed punk rock festival every August.
financing
At the moment the pekarna is financed almost forty percent from own funds and sponsorship money. The rest of the money will be contributed by the city of Maribor (12%) and the Slovenian state (50%). The individual organizations and businesses pay a deliberately low monthly rent to the city of Maribor as the owner of the site . Overall, the site makes an unkempt, partially dilapidated impression (as of 2016). Mayor Boris Sovič promised a necessary basic renovation in 2002, but it would cost “hundreds of millions of euros” and is therefore currently not financially viable for the city of Maribor.
Trivia
In the city of Maribor there is a small bakery shop called Pekarna Maribor, but it is not related to the Pekarna cultural center.
See also
Web links
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- ↑ MC Pekarna - More about us . pekarna.net. 2011. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Pekarna bo postala mariborska last . pekarna.blogspot.com. December 18, 2001. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Gustaf.si . Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Bukvarna Ciproš . 2000. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Mariborski policisti na hišnih preiskavah v Pekarni . vecer.com. January 21, 2016. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
- ↑ Župan obljublja, da bodo Pekarno obnovili . pekarna.blogspot.com. January 7, 2001. Retrieved May 9, 2016.