Municipal hall building Recklinghausen
The municipal hall in Recklinghausen was an event building with 1,500 seats.
history
The construction of the hall goes back to the expansion in 1897 of the "Kaisergarten" inn. The hall on Sandweg (today Dorstener Straße) with theater stage and music gallery was already 1000 m² in size by 1900. During the First World War the hall of the Kaisergarten was used as a military hospital , during the occupation of the Ruhr from 1923 to 1925 it served as a quarters for the French troops.
After the end of the occupation, the city of Recklinghausen acquired the restaurant and hall. She set up conference rooms on the upper floor and expanded the hall. After the renovation for more than 600,000 Reichsmarks , the large hall offered space for 1,500 guests, 300 singers and 100 musicians. From November 23 to 30, 1925, the “Städtische Saalbau” was opened with a music week. In addition to concerts, dance events and carnival celebrations, meetings and celebrations of parties, companies, trade unions and various associations as well as council meetings took place in the hall. In 1946, the first party congress of the CDU Association Westphalia / Lippe after the Second World War was held in the hall.
In the winter of 1946/1947, 150 actors from the three Hamburg theaters made guest appearances in the Recklinghäuser Saalbau in the summer of 1947 under the motto “Art for Coal” as a thank you for the “illegal” coal aid from the König Ludwig colliery to the Hamburg theaters. The Ruhr Festival grew out of the action and took place annually in the hall from then on. However, with the growing importance of the Ruhr Festival, the venue Saalbau became too narrow and no longer met the technical requirements, so that a new theater was required as early as 1950. But it wasn't until 1965 that the Ruhrfestspiele moved into the newly built Ruhrfestspielhaus .
The hall building was then redesigned in 1966/1967. Because of the high maintenance and renovation costs, the hall building was given the disparaging nickname “Zahlbau”. For more than ten years, the Saalbau was the venue of the now closed Chamber Music Association Recklinghausen, which was able to engage classical world stars such as Claudio Arrau , Alfred Brendel , Anne-Sophie Mutter and many others for concerts.
In April 2000 the hall building had to be closed due to fire protection deficiencies. Since then, the empty building has been falling into disrepair, but it has resulted in maintenance costs of around € 20,000 per year. The city of Recklinghausen had no money for the renovation , which was to cost around € 11 million in 1999; In contrast, demolishing the hall should only cost around € 200,000. To prevent this, the Sparkasse Vest Recklinghausen offered ten million euros for the conversion to a central museum. Nevertheless, the demolition was decided in June 2012.
The hall building was completely demolished in May 2013.
Organs
When it opened in 1925, the Städtische Saalbau had an organ with 4,719 pipes and 71 stops from the Ludwigsburg organ workshop EF Walcker & Cie. , it was replaced in 1972 by a modern organ with 3,494 pipes and 64 registers from the Dorstener organ building company Breil. This was sold in November 2002 for € 20,000 to the parish of Mariae Himmelfahrt in Hachenburg .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wrecking ball for the Paulusschule and hall building. In: marlaktuell.de. Marl Aktuell / Sonntagsblatt im Vest, accessed on January 31, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 6.6 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 32.8" E