Schauburg (hall)

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Entrance to the former Schauburg in the courtyard of Grosse Steinstrasse 27–28 (2013)

The Schauburg is a former velodrome and cinema building on the property at Große Steinstraße 27/28 in Halle (Saale) .

history

The records of the Schauburg site go back to 1665, when the archbishop's chancellor Johann Krull was named as the owner in the “main book of ordinary non-obligations”. After his death it was bought by the pastor of the Moritzkirche, Johan Jeremias Reichelm. From 1680 to 1780 the area was used by confectioners, a goldsmith and a pottery.

From 1801 to 1883 the Rosch family ran a farm and had a large barn built, the predecessor of the hall, of which the foundation walls can still be seen. In 1853, the economist Carl Friedrich Rosch had the front building on Grosse Steinstrasse 27/28 built. In 1874 stables were added, the substance of which is still heavily rebuilt. From 1888, the front building housed the “Gasthof zum alten Schwan”. Ultimately, Otto Gieseke acquired the site and commissioned the builder Fritz Thierichens with new buildings and conversions in 1897. A hall was to be built from the old barn in order to “practice cycling or learn the same thing in winter and in bad weather”. There was also an attached sports hotel with a restaurant.

In 1899/1900 a gallery was installed in the great hall, the holding devices of which can still be seen in some places. The hall was now used for meetings and dancing. Later there are entries that the room, now known as the “Germania Hall” , should be expanded as a circus . The hotel and restaurant business ended in 1917. In 1918 the Wilhelm Hendrichs book printing company moved into the front building. Among other things, the first editions of Schultze-Galléras “Topography or the history of houses and streets in the city of Halle” were printed here. In the 1940s, a colleague took over the printing company, which after the war continued until 1989.

The "Germania-Saal" became the used car store Gerlach & Co. in 1919 after it had been briefly occupied by the military. At the end of the 1920s, the “single dormitory of the Leunawerk” was located in the adjoining building. In 1980 the building at Große Steinstraße 26 was demolished, which also made the entrance gate to the courtyard of the property disappeared. Until 1993 the company "Lichtpausbetrieb Meyer" was located on the ground floor and then moved to Barfüßerstraße.

The cinema

In 1926, Rudolf Hovander applied for the conversion of the former velodrome into a movie theater with the emergency exits required by the building authorities at the time. Karl Kahlert designed the vestibule and the vestibule with the heavily accentuated half-columns. The architect Walther Thurm carried out the conversion to a cinema. In 1927 the “Schauburg Lichtspiele” with 1200 seats - including a tier and boxes - was opened. In 1930, the Leipzig cinema entrepreneurs Max and Gotthold Künzel took over the house and after a nine-day renovation carried out a renovation in 1938 for brighter and more friendly colors in the hall. The Schauburg survived the Second World War without any damage - it was able to reopen in July 1945 as the second cinema after the CT-Lichtspiele in Große Ulrichstraße. The program was initially determined by SMAD and Soyuzintorgkino. The Künzel brothers were expropriated and compensated by a resolution of August 18, 1954, after which the cinema was managed by the VEB Kreislichtspielbetriebe Halle and in 1963 by the district theater company.

At the end of 1955 to August 1956, the rooms were renovated for 200,000 German marks by the German Central Bank and equipped with new parquet, new seating, projectors and sound technology. The projection was also switched to widescreen format with a 14 meter wide screen . In October 1963 the cinema was closed after fire damage. The Schauburg then served for some time as an “innovator center” and a polytechnic seminar. It was used as a kitchen studio with consumer goods exhibition and hairdressing salon until 1996, after which it was vacant.

Present and Future

In 2010, it was planned to be used as a free theater with a large hall and three side stages, rehearsal rooms and offices for theater groups, a small club, studio apartments, a gallery, cabaret and roof terrace with a café. The implementation of the project began in the summer of 2011 by the Association for the Promotion of the Free Cultural Landscape of Saxony-Anhalt eV and events have already taken place in the courtyard as part of the SchauGarten. The project was discontinued in November 2011 because the summer storms in August 2011 caused damage to the roof of the Schauburg and the stage in the courtyard was also destroyed.

On the day of the open monument in September 2011 you could take a look at the Schauburg. The interior of the Schauburg was used for a video installation as part of the Werkleitz Festival in October 2012.

On the morning of December 28, 2017, there was a fire in the building, which was then in danger of collapsing.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Breitkopf: Große Steinstrasse 27/28. In: Hallesche Blätter 33, Arbeitskreis Innenstadt eV, September 2007 .
  2. ^ A b Peter Findeisen: Preservation of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt. No. 1/07 . Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007, ISSN  0949-3506 , Alte Lichtspielhäuser in Sachsen-Anhalt: no obituary yet, p. 16-37 .
  3. ^ Heidi Jürgens: Dreams of the island. In: mz-online. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , November 5, 2010, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  4. ^ Yvette Hennig: News from the Schauburg. In: hastuzeit. November 17, 2011, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Katja Pausch: We'll start again from below zero. In: mz-online. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 26, 2011, accessed June 14, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Building in danger of collapsing: Investigations after a devastating night of fire are difficult to start | MZ.de In: mz-web.de , accessed on June 28, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 13.62 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 28.36"  E