Rhein-Mosel-Halle
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The Rhein-Mosel-Halle is a meeting, congress and event location in Koblenz . The multi-purpose hall was built between 1959 and 1962 in the vicinity of its predecessor, the municipal festival hall, which opened in 1901 and was destroyed in 1944. After a renovation in which it was completely renovated and expanded, it was able to reopen in 2012. The hall is located in the southern suburb of Koblenz near the Electoral Palace and the wine village on the banks of the Rhine .
history
Municipal festival hall
The predecessor building was the municipal festival hall, built from 1898 to 1901. It stood at the eastern end of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring (today: Friedrich-Ebert-Ring) on the east wing of the former Mainz Gate of the city fortifications , which were abandoned with the demolition from 1890 ( 50 ° 21 ′ 14.5 ″ N , 7th ° 35 ′ 55.5 ″ E ). It was built according to plans by the architects Ehrhard Müller from Koblenz and Lambert von Fisenne from Gelsenkirchen in the neo-renaissance and neo-baroque styles . The inauguration took place from October 10th to 12th, 1901. To the north of the municipal festival hall was the ramp to the Pfaffendorfer Bridge , opposite it on the other side of the street the Barbara monument was inaugurated in 1907 . Concerts, music festivals, exhibitions and major events took place in the hall. In 1925, the Festival Hall was built with German in the event site of the Empire Exhibition wine, down to the still preserved Weindorf extended. Another major event was the ceremony of the Prussian state government on July 22, 1930 for the liberation of the Rhineland from French occupation with the participation of President Paul von Hindenburg .
During the heaviest air raid on Koblenz on November 6, 1944, the municipal festival hall was severely damaged. After the war, the building was still worth rebuilding, but it was decided to demolish it in favor of a changed traffic route to the Pfaffendorfer Bridge. The ruins were blown up on March 11, 1952, and the foundations were removed. The Pfaffendorfer Bridge could then be connected to Friedrich-Ebert-Ring and Neustadt without crossing.
New construction of the Rhein-Mosel-Halle 1959–1962
At the beginning of the 1950s, plans began to build a new town hall. There was no space for new buildings, so it was decided to build the new town hall a few meters behind the destroyed festival hall on the former site of the 1925 “Reichsausstellung Deutscher Wein”. The city of Koblenz had to take out a loan of DM 35,000 to clear the site . The plan was to complete the new town hall within a year. However, it was not until September 1953 that a call for tenders was made for “a building competition to obtain designs for the new construction of a festival and exhibition hall”, which the architect Wilhelm Neveling won. Until the end of the 1950s, the project was pushed into the background, as the city administration was primarily committed to housing and school construction.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 2, 1959, and the foundation stone was laid on October 5, 1960. On December 29, 1962, the new town hall, which was given the name “Rhein-Mosel-Halle”, was inaugurated in the presence of Prime Minister Peter Altmeier . Extensive donations made it possible to equip the hall with an organ (IV + P / 71) built by Emanuel Kemper & Sohn in 1963 . The organ has 71 registers with 5674 pipes and was one of the largest secular organs in Germany at that time.
The architect Wilhelm Neveling created a four-storey "reinforced concrete cube with a curtain wall that looks towards the Rhine" in the formal architecture of the 1950s, based on the ideas of the Bauhaus . Ten years later, the Palace of the Republic, designed and hotly debated by Heinz Graffunder , was designed and built according to similar standards in the former GDR . Until the renovation, the Rhein-Mosel-Halle had an emblem on its front facade designed by the Höhr-Grenzhausen artist Eugen Keller . The historian Erich Franke wrote about this work: " The arabesque symbolizes the good spirit of the hall, harmoniously lively like a cadenza ." The artistic design of the rear wall in the former entrance hall, which, based on an idea by Neveling, represented the Rhine-Moselle triangle, came from Keller.
Renovation 2010–2012
As part of the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show in Koblenz, the Rhein-Mosel-Halle was completely renovated for 32 million euros and extended by a 700 m² conference complex. Not only was an energetic refurbishment carried out, the sound systems were also brought up to date. The construction work, which began in April 2010, could not be completed for the Federal Horticultural Show. The completion date had to be postponed again and again. Originally, a 13-month construction period was assumed, but this expanded to 30 months. The Rhein-Mosel-Halle was only able to reopen on September 26, 2012. The almost new building of the congress and event center now offers an exhibition area of 1600 m² with 16 event rooms between 35 and 1300 m² in which events with ten to 1400 participants can take place.
use
The Rhein-Mosel-Halle has several halls that are used for conferences and events of various kinds such as concerts, exhibitions, etc.
| room | surface | height | Row seating |
| Great Hall | 865 m² | 10.9 m | 1036 seats + 10 wheelchair users |
| Gallery Great Hall | 425 m² | 364 places + 4 wheelchair users | |
| Rheinsaal | 255 m² | 5.8 m | 270 seats |
| Lahnsaal | 188 m² | 2.55 m | 164 seats |
| Moselle Hall | 100 m² | 2.75 m | 111 seats |
| Atrium | 850 m² | 6.0 m | 510 seats |
| gallery | 580 m² | 2.55 m | 136 seats |
There is also a conference center with three combinable rooms of a total of 365 m² and up to 435 seats in a row, as well as three additional rooms with a total area of 335 m² and up to 420 seats, as well as four meeting rooms.
Well-known artists who performed in the Rhein-Mosel-Halle included OE Hasse in Schiller's Wallenstein , Hermann Prey , Rudolf Schock , Gottlob Frick , Anke Engelke , Münchener Freiheit , Helge Schneider , Urban Priol , Dieter Nuhr and Michael Mittermeier .
organ
The organ was built in 1963 by Emanuel Kemper with 71 stops on four manuals and a pedal . From 2010 to 2014, the organ was renovated by the organ builder Hugo Mayer in Heusweiler for around 175,000 euros and re-installed in the new Rhein-Mosel-Halle. The instrument is placed in two chambers to the left and right of the stage. It has an electric play and key action , Pitman-shop and an electronic combination system , which was in 2014 an extension.
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- Pair : I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P, II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III
literature
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Hans Bellinghausen (Ed.): 2000 years Koblenz. History of the city on the Rhine and Moselle. Reissued. Boldt, Boppard 1971, ISBN 3-7646-1556-7 .
- Koblenz. Rhein-Mosel-Halle, ed. from the Koblenz Municipal Traffic Office, Koblenz 1962
- Koblenz. Rhein-Mosel-Halle, ed. from the Koblenz Municipal Traffic Office, Koblenz 1964
Web links
- The Rhein-Mosel-Halle on koblenz-touristik.de
- March 11, 1952. The town hall in Koblenz was blown up. in: State Main Archive Koblenz
- The Rhein-Mosel-Halle Video of the construction of the Koblenz Rhein-Mosel-Halle, 1959–1962 ( WDR -Digital-Archiv).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lipski: The concert hall organ in Germany: From its beginnings in the 19th century to World War II. Musicology - Corporate Communication, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-928243-33-9 , p. 265. Online
- ↑ Thomas Lipski: The concert hall organ in Germany: From its beginnings in the 19th century to World War II. Musicology - Corporate Communication, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-928243-33-9 , p. 400. Online
- ↑ Jörg Rüter: Stadthallen in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, A social architectural achievement of the post-war period (Volume 18 of Europäische Hochschulschriften: Architektur), 1996, ISBN 3-631-49847-0 , page 179
- ↑ Erich Franke: Koblenzer Kostbarkeiten , Volume 1, Koblenz 1967, p. 138.
- ↑ Reinhard Kallenbach: One and a half years late: The Rhein-Mosel-Halle is open. Rhein-Zeitung, accessed on September 27, 2012 .
- ^ Website Koblenz Congress, accessed on September 30, 2012.
- ↑ After water damage: Experts restore the giant Koblenz organ in: Rhein-Zeitung , July 26, 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 11.2 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 0.5 ″ E