Cottbus town hall
The Stadthalle Cottbus is a large event hall in the city of Cottbus and at the same time the largest structure of its kind in the state of Brandenburg .
The hall built during the GDR era was inaugurated on October 3, 1975. In 1968 the council of the district of Cottbus announced an ideas competition for the construction of a town hall. The architect Eberhard Kühn won first place in the tender . Since in GDR times such houses could sometimes only be built under adventurous conditions, among other things due to a chronic shortage of materials, the Cottbusers only saw a huge hole in the city center for a long time, which they named "open pit mine". The town hall was created as part of a comprehensive redesign of the core city in the style of the socialist city , to which the former consumer department store and the " Hotel Lausitz" no longer exist today.
The hall has 1523 seats, which are arranged rising from the stage to the rear. If the seating is changed, the capacity can be expanded to up to 2017 seats. Back then, in GDR times, up to 75% of events from in-house productions were shown. The first event was on December 27, 1975. The town hall was designed mainly for congresses and sporting events. The hall now has around 200,000 visitors every year.
After an extensive overhaul of the stage electrics and electronics had already been carried out at the end of the 1980s, the hall was comprehensively modernized and renovated in 2001. Until 1989 the workforce consisted of the founding director Dieter Nehmzow and a workforce of eighty. Today there are just under a dozen employees and the town hall belongs to the "Cottbuser Kongress, Messe und Touristik GmbH" (CMT).
In-house productions, selection:
- Hit the horn, first event in 1975
- Lausitzer Mark stories
- Ballet gallery evening
- Portrait by microphone, with Heinz Florian Oertel
- Music action
Events, selection:
- Tournament of Masters 1979–1995, 1997–2002, 2006
- Musikantenstadl , the only time in the GDR, 1989
- Today the eagle is tapping, since 1997
- Today the sparrow has been tapping since 2014
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 13, 2015 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.
- ↑ http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/cottbus/Fuers-Gaglower-Bluemchen-schlaegts-13;art1049,4469488
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 42.9 " N , 14 ° 19 ′ 48.8" E