City Hall (Heidelberg)
The Heidelberg City Hall is a congress and cultural center in the old town of Heidelberg on the banks of the Neckar. It was built according to the plans of the architects Jakob Henkenhaf and Friedrich Ebert between 1901 and 1903.
history
The stylistic design of the Heidelberg City Hall combines elements of the Wilhelminian era and Renaissance architecture with elements of Art Nouveau , especially in the design of the interior architecture . It was built on the occasion of the centenary of the university reform of 1803 as an assembly and festival building for the citizens. The core of the building is the ballroom, which can accommodate up to 2481 people and contains a concert organ from the Voit workshop from the beginning of the 20th century.
The Rosengarten congress center in neighboring Mannheim is also a building from this era.
The building was faithfully restored from 1979 to 1980.
Since the 1990s there have been plans to build a congress center at the main train station. After all plans with private investors came to nothing, the Heidelberg municipal council decided at the beginning of 2010 that an annex should be added to the town hall instead. It would have been built next to the old town hall, which would have been connected by a glass transition. On July 25, 2010, the plans for this extension were rejected by a referendum with a two-thirds majority. Mayor Würzner announced that he would stop all further planning.
Voit organ
The organ was built in 1903 by the organ builder Voit and Sons (Durlach) and extensively restored in 1993 by the organ builder Vleugels . A new, additional gaming table was built in order to have contemporary dimensions and newer technical equipment available and to protect the historical gaming table. The instrument has 56 stops on three manuals and a pedal . It is considered the first larger organ with an electric action and a mobile console in Germany. Since the organ was not touched in its substance, it is now considered a monument organ . A special feature of this organ is that the pedal can be coupled to the 2nd manual.
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Couple
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Pedal-to-manual coupling: P / II
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I
- Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I, III / I
literature
- Micha Hörnle: Congresses on the river . In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung of January 18, 2006, page 3.
Web links
- Kongresshaus Heidelberg , website
- Information about history and architecture ( Memento of December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Article about the spatial program in the Rhein-Neckar-Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Current list of the maximum possible seats with classic seating, accessed on April 21, 2016
- ^ Gerhard Wagner in: The Voit organ in the Heidelberg city hall . Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3924973599 , p. 13.
- ↑ http://www.heidelberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1198771/index.html ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ http://www.heidelberg.de/servlet/PB/menu/1158581_l1/index.html ( Memento from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Mayor in transition? ( Memento of the original from April 16, 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. dated July 25, 2010
- ^ Gerhard Wagner in: The Voit organ in the Heidelberg city hall . Guderjahn, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 978-3924973599 , p. 24.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 44 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 59" E