Chemnitz City Hall

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Chemnitz City Hall complex

The Chemnitz City Hall was built between 1969 and 1974 as a multi-purpose hall in the center of the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt and was officially opened on October 4, 1974. 4000 m 2 of Rochlitz porphyry were used for the large panel cladding attached to the town hall .

Since it opened, around 16 million people have attended classical and rock concerts, shows, musicals, trade fairs, congresses, meetings, balls, gala evenings and TV productions here. The operator, C 3 Chemnitzer Veranstaltungszentren GmbH , is an independent subsidiary of the city of Chemnitz. The Wasserschloss Klaffenbach has been part of the GmbH as a second event house since January 2006 .

The town hall has 1828 seats in the Great Hall and 560 in the Small Hall.

architecture

The typical characteristics of the Stadthalle / Hotel architectural complex have dominated the cityscape since the 1970s. The creative head of this functional synthesis of cultural center and hotel was chief architect Rudolf Weiser . The structural ceiling designed by Hubert Schiefelbein and the triangular grid that enables the polygonal structure also transfer the distinctive exterior design to the interior architecture. The house was given a new accent in 2004 by the Chemnitz designer Clauss Dietel , who set new accents in the foyers with a revised color and light concept. In 2011, an architectural competition was held to expand the town hall into a conference and congress center, which the Berlin office studioinges won.

Works of art

In addition to the unique architecture, the Chemnitz City Hall has some remarkable works of art. Fritz Cremer's sculpture is in the center of the light hall in the large foyer. And yet it moves! - Galileo . The work of art takes up the historical and thus manifests the eternal basic principle of change: Nothing is permanent, not history, not the world as you see it. Horst Zickelbein's mural The liberation of science through the socialist revolution , which can also be found in the light hall of the Great Foyer, is less impressive today because of the program - the color scheme of the work of art is much more impressive. The small hall also has artistic furnishings: in the small foyer there are reliefs by Christa Collectors , which capture the experience of the music. Works by Wieland Förster can be seen in the adjacent town hall park .

  • Gerd Jaeger: Human dignity, beauty and pride in socialism, 1974

  • Wieland Förster: Neeberger Torso, 1974

  • Wieland Förster: Science as Productive Force, Porphyry, 1974

  • Harald Stephan: Large Nude, Wood, 1979

  • Rainer-Maria Schubert: '3 Sculpture Entanglements, three-part sculpture, 2001, steel frame, covered with fiber concrete

organ

The Chemnitz City Hall has one of the largest organs in a secular building. It was designed and pre-assembled from 1972 to 1976 by what was then VEB Orgelbau Dresden - today's company Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden . The installation took place in 1976. The organ has four manuals , 80 registers (including 67 sounding registers, three tremulants and 10 couplings ) and 5536 pipes. Today the organ can be heard at selected symphony and Christmas concerts, the traditional Advent program and the organ concerts that take place twice a year.

literature

  • Karl Brix: Karl-Marx-Stadt, Stadthalle and Interhotel “Kongress”. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981.

Web links

Commons : Stadthalle Chemnitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rochlitzer Wanderbuch 1978 , page 43
  2. ↑ Seating plans of the Chemnitz city hall
  3. ↑ a b Rudolf Weiser: City Hall and Interhotel “Congress” in Karl-Marx-Stadt. In: Architektur der DDR , Volume 25, 1975, Issue 4, pp. 226–239.
  4. ↑ Knitted. Expansion of the Chemnitz city hall into a conference center. In: Bauwelt , 102nd year 2011, No. 35, pp. 10–12.
  5. ^ Architecture and works of art - Chemnitz city hall. Retrieved December 23, 2014 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 6.7 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 15.7 ″  E