Saalbau Neukölln
The Saalbau Neukölln is one of the oldest cultural buildings in Rixdorf . It was opened in 1876 and renovated and expanded several times in the following decades. The building has been a monument since the 1990s .
history
In 1876, a restaurant opened on the property at Berliner Straße (since 1947 Karl-Marx-Straße 141) , which soon became one of the most renowned cultural sites of the Rixdorf bourgeoisie . The house was built according to construction plans and under the direction of the architect F. Teichmann. The former neo-renaissance facade was redesigned in 1928 in the New Objectivity style based on designs by Karl Bonatz . In 1878 the first Rixdorf trade exhibition took place here. In 1894 the restaurant was expanded for the first time and was given the name Bürgersäle . Theater was played here from 1899 and in 1904 , one of the first city- subsidized theaters in Prussia , the Rixdorfer Stadttheater , was founded by Julius Türk , co-founder of the Volksbühne movement and member of the Friedrichshagener poet circle . Max Tilger staged here around 1914 . After the First World War , UFA leased the hall building and operated the Neukölln Municipal Theater in it . The hall building remained closed during the Second World War . Only eight years after the end of the war, in 1953, it was renovated, rebuilt in 1954 and reopened as a concert, theater and film hall under the auspices of the Neukölln Art Office. In 1968 the amusement facility was closed.
For fifteen years there was no culture in the building, it was empty. In 1983 an intensive redesign began, so that the house was reopened on April 24, 1990 with the theater and concert hall, exhibition rooms and the Café Rix under the name Saalbau Neukölln . The Volkstheater collective Heimathafen Neukölln has been playing in the Neukölln hall since April 1, 2009 . The Saalbau Neukölln consists of a four-storey front building with a side wing. This is followed by the former ballroom, which is in the neo-baroque style. During the last renovation work, an interesting decorative painting was uncovered in the passage .
Literature & sources
- Rixdorf muses, naysayers and Caprifischer, music and theater in Rixdorf and Neukölln , edited by Dorothea Kolland on behalf of the Neukölln district office of Berlin, Department of Public Education / Art Office, Edition Hentrich Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-926175-78-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. Berlin , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, p. 345.
- ↑ Portrait of the home port Neukölln on nachtkritik.de; Retrieved March 28, 2011.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '37 " N , 13 ° 26' 20.8" E