City Hall Hamburg

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City hall from the east with tram connection
Stadthalle from the Stadtparksee

The city ​​hall was the main restaurant in Hamburg's city park , which was designed for large events. It offered space for around 10,000 to 14,000 guests.

location

The city hall was located at the main entrance of the city park at the eastern end of a line of sight over the lake and the festival meadow to the planetarium .

Emergence

The hall was designed as part of the planning of the city park carried out by Ferdinand Sperber and Fritz Schumacher in 1910 , which was commissioned by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . While the city park was opened four years later, the construction of the city hall was delayed due to the First World War. The shell was built between 1912 and 1916 and was not completed until 1924.

The three-part hall building with two arcade wings, music pavilions, side rooms and the terrace was pompously furnished for the time. The architect was Hermann Höger . The facades were designed by Richard Kuöhl . The artistic design of the rooms was in the hands of the artists Otto Fischer-Trachau (1878–1958) and Bernhard Hopp . Fischer-Trachau designed the ceiling in the domed hall and Hopp designed the “wedding hall”, the entrance rooms and the second adjoining hall in the south wing, the “red hall”.

  • Outside area east side

  • Exterior facility on the lake side

  • Domed hall

  • Wedding hall

  • Red hall

Connection

In 1921 one of the first new lines of the Hamburg tram to the city hall was opened, which led over the city ​​hall bridge .

Behind the town hall was the Stadtparksee with a small harbor, which was converted into an outdoor pool in 1936 and still exists today. He could by boat or with a Alsterdampfer -Pendelverkehr the mill Kamper ferry over the Goldbekkanal be achieved. A bathing establishment was also set up in the 1930s. It also still exists today.

destruction

During the Second World War, the town hall was badly damaged by a bomb attack during Operation Gomorrah in July 1943 and was finally demolished in 1951/52. Inconspicuous remains can still be seen today. A large circular fountain basin was later built on parts of the area, on which model builders let their boats go. The stairs have been preserved.

Web links

Commons : Stadthalle in Hamburg's Stadtpark  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the number of people on the Stadtpark site
  2. ↑ see Stadtparksee # Historischer Wandel
  3. ↑ History and photos of the town hall on hamburg-stadtpark.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '31.8 "  N , 10 ° 1' 46.4"  E