Seeburg (Kiel)
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The Seeburg was originally a private residence on the Kiel Fjord opposite the Kunsthalle Kiel . After 140 years it was torn down in 1907 and replaced by a new building for students and professors from the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . This new Seeburg has been home to a catering business for decades. The Seeburg is not a castle in the true sense of the word. It was never the seat of a noble knight and never had a military function. The popular name was evidently based on the location of the building and its appearance. The architect Theodor Fischer was inspired by the name for his new building.
Richter's court
There was already a house here, the oldest residential building on Düsternbrooker Weg, from a time when this was still a simple forest path that led into the beech trees. In 1767, the royal Danish state master builder Johann Adam Richter acquired the shoreline of the fjord, which stretched from Kiel Castle to Schwanenweg. He had the old guard house (the Constabel watch) demolished. On the property, soil was first poured on the beach and then in 1783/1784 a country house was built in the style of Ernst Georg Sonnin , whose pupil he was. "Richters Hof" was a two-story brick building, entwined with ivy . Because of its compactness and its location on the water, it was popularly known as "Seeburg".
In 1803 Richter sold the house with the large garden to Count Christian zu Rantzau , the curator of the university. Even after his death in 1813, his wife, Countess Charlotte Rantzau , daughter of the Danish diplomat Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein , received the Seeburg as an intellectual meeting place in Kiel. When the university acquired the property in 1907, the building was demolished in the same year because of dry rot.
Seeburg student residence
The wholesale merchant Theodor Wille (1818-1892) left his hometown Kiel 2 million marks with the stipulation that “the interest for school purposes should first be used in Kiel itself and then also for the university”.
Wilhelm II approved the student house in August 1906. The building was originally to be built between Feldstrasse and Niemannsweg; but the university had meanwhile received another foundation. It contained the condition that the "Wille-Haus" be built on the waterfront in Düsternbrook with a ballroom and ancillary buildings, which are also available to the teaching staff and administrative staff of the university. The property at Düsternbrooker Weg 2, the Seeburg property, seemed suitable. It was in the immediate vicinity of the university in the castle garden and also on the water, which was particularly favorable for student rowing and sailing. The city acquired the property to build a city hall there, but then deemed the project unsuitable. So it came to land negotiations with the university, which acquired the property on Düsternbrooker Weg for 200,000 marks with a purchase agreement of October 26, 1907. On May 14, 1909, the rector of the university, Erich Schaeder, laid the foundation stone for this building, which was to become a rest home for students and professors, in a ceremony.
Theodor Fischer received the building contract. Construction was carried out by the university building authority. The costs made it necessary to reduce the height and length of the building and to do without part of the planned terraces.
“If we want a dutiful and responsible, work-happy and hard-working student body, then an indispensable prerequisite for this is a tempering of physical energy. With it the spiritual goes hand in hand. The enemies of this physical measure of strength for the German student are the exaggerated drinking habits mentioned above and the moral laxity in the narrower sense of the word ?? as every connoisseur of student life knows, both are only too often directly connected. In these relationships, a port city and large city like Kiel approaches young men in every position in life, especially students, with an abundance of temptations. On the other hand, besides other things that are not to be mentioned at this point, a properly practiced sport can intervene preserving, excluding and, in the right sense, invigorating. [...] And the Seeburg company should work in this direction. "
On November 12, 1910, the Seeburg was in the presence of Prince Waldemar of Prussia as a representative of Sr. Kgl. Highness of Prince Heinrich of Prussia by the rector of Kiel University, Götz Martius , inaugurated. In his celebratory speech he stated:
“The company that has been implemented here is actually a strange one, a new one. It is not just any home for any resident, not any casino for any society, but a home, a house, a casino for students. And so far the need in Germany has not produced such. "
There have already been two similar projects in Germany, in Charlottenburg and Königsberg ( Palaestra Albertina ). However, these dormitories were not successful. The Seeburg, however, "may be a place of relaxation and stimulation for many, may it serve the increasing awareness of the inner togetherness of the cives academici, may it be a place of peaceful communal life for the most varied of academic circles".
At the beginning of 1913 the building was expanded to include a double bowling alley on the south side.
After the Second World War
During the Second World War , the building was badly damaged in the air raids on Kiel . The undamaged annex to the bowling alley was initially used as an emergency shelter. In 1958 the university decided to renovate it, which lasted until 1961. The Seeburg was subsequently used as a restaurant and cafeteria, as a student residence with 27 beds, by the university institute for physical exercise and by five university groups with activities in water sports. In 1989 the International Meeting Center (IBZ) with 30 apartments was added to the north of the Seeburg as a guest house for the university. The restaurant with cafeteria for students at the University Hospital and employees of the neighboring Institute for Oceanography was initially operated by various private tenants. In 1997, the Schleswig-Holstein student union took over the restaurant, later also the Kiellinie No 1 restaurant in the basement and the beer garden. When the lease expired in 2012, the Studentenwerk withdrew. The Campus Suite took over the rooms and set up a bistro, which finally closed in 2016. A major renovation with redesign of the outdoor facilities was announced in 2012, but not implemented. Due to the planned renovation, the rowing team of the Academic Gymnastics Association Ditmarsia Kiel was terminated.
In the basement on the water side, the Hochschulring Deutscher Kajakfahrer Kiel eV (HDK) and the Academic Rowing Association Kiel eV (ARV) are still housed today .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hedwig Sievert, Kiel then and now - From the canal to the Schwentine, G. Mühlau Verlag Kiel, 1964, photo 28
- ↑ Theodor Wille
- ↑ Kiel Memorial Day May 14, 1909. Laying of the foundation stone of the Seeburg dormitory ( memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bastian Karkossa: Seeburg Kiel: Campus Suite displaces rowing club. Kieler Nachrichten online, March 30, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 47.5 ″ E