Schwerin stables
The royal stables of the Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania state capital Schwerin is located on a small headland, the former Wadewiesen, now the Marstall Peninsula, on the west bank of the Schwerin Inner Lake on Werderstrasse . The area was integrated into the area of the Federal Horticultural Show 2009 in 2009 . The Marstall has housed the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture since 1990 , temporarily parts of the Technical State Museum from 1997 and the Ministry of Labor, Equality and Social Affairs since 2009 .
Building
The building was built according to the time in a classical style . To the side of the central building (riding arena) extend two long wings, each of which bends twice at right angles, thus forming an almost closed courtyard. The building complex includes the riding hall (today the entrance hall of the museum), the horse stable and a wing for the accommodation of carriages and riding gear. The other wing of the building accommodated the staff of the stables.
The three wings are two-storey and have purlin roofs . The outer walls of all parts of the building were massive, the inner walls in half-timbered construction. The original stables were built over vaults. The central building of the facility, the seven-axis , former riding arena, which extended over two floors and has arched openings, is located in the 167 meter long east-side lake front . The attached middle section has a purlin roof that is at right angles to the roof of the main wing. Its gable is equipped with lunette windows. The corner buildings are three-story and have flat tent roofs . The head buildings flanking the opening to the city are also three-story and have three to nine axes.
On the outside of the building, openings on the ground floor are arranged in arched and arcade-shaped recesses. The inner ground floor openings in the north wing are framed by closed niches combined in pairs. The windows above are lined with pilasters in pairs and crowned in a triangular manner by highlighting in the plaster. At the corner and head buildings, the building edges are emphasized by plaster blocks .
In terms of urban planning, the Marstall has a special position in the immediate vicinity of the castle and the likewise classicist government buildings. Due to its generous planning, surrounded by a lot of open landscape, it can be understood as a bridge between the city and the surrounding area. It once formed the end of the Großer Moor and also had the postal address Großer Moor 55 (today: Werderstrasse 124).
history
After the ducal residence was moved back from Ludwigslust to Schwerin in 1837 after more than 70 years , the construction of larger government buildings was necessary. The old stables in the Old Garden were also seen as too small. The Marstall was built according to plans by Georg Adolf Demmler in the years 1838–1842 on the former wad meadows. The name of the meadows is derived from the use, the drying of fishing nets (calves). The wooden courtyard of the castle was also located there before. The building was based on the Ludwigsluster Marstall by Johann Georg Barca . Construction manager Carl Behnke took over the construction management for the Schwerin Marstall.
Riding and driving exercises took place in the courtyard used as a parade ground . With the construction of the Marstall in 1840, planning for the horticultural design of the peninsula was also tackled. Original plans are no longer available, but on a floor plan from 1848, a five-meter-wide, solid path is marked as a straight extension of the inner-city street Großer Moor into the inner courtyard. This path was restored after 1990 as part of the renovation work.
After 1918, the stables were used in different ways, including the riding arena as a replacement venue for several times during maintenance work on the theater building and sports facility.
In 1968 the city announced an ideas competition for a new urban planning concept, the revised results of which were submitted to the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in 1970 , identified 15 historic buildings in the city center, including the stables, as worthy of preservation. The Great Moor was to become part of a wide pedestrian axis from the Marstall to the Lambrechtsgrund Sports Forum in Weststadt - lined with high-rise buildings, among other things . In favor of housing construction, which was accelerated at the time, these plans, like many concepts for inner-city public buildings across the country, were rejected by a party congress resolution. A newer old town design concept from 1974 envisaged converting the Marstall area into a leisure center with an Interhotel at the north end. With the exception of the extensive demolition of old buildings on the Great Moor, these plans were not implemented either.
Since 1990 the building has been the seat of the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The stables were extensively renovated between 2003 and 2007. The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Ministry of Labor, Equality and Social Affairs has also been located there since 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marstall Schwerin - Proske & Steinhausen GbR ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e Sabine Bock : Schwerin. The old town. Urban planning and house inventory in the 20th century , Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-931185-08-7 , p. 389f.
- ↑ Bernd Kasten and Jens-Uwe Rost: Schwerin. History of the city. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-38-4 , pp. 257f., 340.
- ↑ Information about the building. Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, accessed November 4, 2015 .
Remarks
Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 11 ° 25 ′ 20 ″ E