City Hall Kassel
The Stadthalle Kassel (also called Kongress Palais Kassel ) is an event hall opened in 1914 in the north Hessian city of Kassel . It is located in the Vorderer Westen district on Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse . The monumental building, which was built between 1911 and 1914, and its colonnade wing, built between 2010 and 2011, is used as a venue for exhibitions, concerts , trade fairs and conferences . The entire complex offers a total of 8500 m² of event space and 8300 visitors.
Location and architecture
The Kassel city hall is located on the site of the former Flora Park . It is located a little west of August-Bebel-Platz on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. The town hall is adjacent to the walled public green spaces “Stadthallengarten” and “Rosengarten”.
The monumental neoclassical portico of the town hall dominates the silhouette of the surrounding area. Inside there are, among other things, two large halls, of which the largest, the ballroom , can accommodate 1,847 visitors with normal seating.
history
The initiative to build the Kassel town hall goes back to the Jewish textile entrepreneur and founder of the Vorderen West, Sigmund Aschrott . He made the building site available to his hometown free of charge, with the condition that a cultural center be created there for the citizens of Kassel.
The hall was built between 1911 and 1914 based on an award-winning design by the architects Ernst Rothe and Max Hummel . After being used for the city's millennium in September 1913, it was officially inaugurated on April 1, 1914. From 1923 to 1929, residential buildings were built between the city hall and the Red Cross Hospital based on designs by Max Hummel , which in their proportions and design language made direct reference to the city hall.
During the Second World War , the Kassel town hall got away with minor damage, only the entrance hall was hit by an incendiary bomb . The damage left by the bomb can still be seen today (a brownish stain in the hall floor).
In the post-war period, the town hall served as temporary accommodation for the state theater, whose own domicile was bombed out. Until the completion (1959) of the new theater building between Friedrichsplatz and Karlsaue, theater operations took place here. After the opening of the new State Theater, the city hall continued to be the venue for the symphony concerts of the Kassel State Orchestra.
In 1949 the entrance hall of the building was rebuilt and in the 1990s the interior of the building was completely modernized, expanded and acoustically changed by the architects HHS Planer + Architekten AG under the conditions of monument protection, with the Klais concert hall organ built in 1964 for the town hall on the north houses Dom sold. In addition, its outer facade has been restored; then the forecourt was generously redesigned. The adjacent “Ramada Hotel Kassel City Center” (also known colloquially as the “Stadthallenhotel”) was built as part of the project.
The forecourt of the town hall has been named Holger-Börner- Platz since October 29, 2007 in honor of the late Hessian Prime Minister (1976 to 1987) .
From 2010 to 2011, the colonnade wing was built a few meters north of the hall , which extends over two levels for a total of 2900 m².
capacities
Together with the colonnade wing , the Kassel town hall has 8,500 m² of event space and space for 8,300 visitors.
- Hall and room capacities (areas and, depending on the seating, visitors):
- Ballroom : 699 m², 1847 visitors
- Colonnade Hall : 796 m², 720 visitors
- Blue Hall : 449 m², 660 visitors
- Foyer : 4,207 m², entrance hall
- Social room: 199 m², 240 visitors
- Rosensaal : 180 m², 197 visitors
- Aschrottsaal : 120 m², 108 visitors
- Banquet hall : 188 m², 196 visitors
- Garden room : 340 m², 290 visitors
- Meeting rooms (17 rooms): 30 to 76 m², 24 to 69 visitors
- Outdoor space capacities (usable event space; total: 4614 m²):
- Concert garden (by the colonnade wing): 3,492 m²
- Holger-Börner- Platz (on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ): 1,122 m²
Web links
- Kongress Palais Kassel (official website of the town hall), on kongress-palais.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Diverse room capacities ... , accessed on July 31, 2017, at kongress-palais.de
- ↑ The town hall turns 100 on January 28, 2014, on hna.de.
- ↑ a b c Cultural Center of the City , from July 2, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2017, from stadt-kassel.de
- ↑ HJZ: Kassel residential buildings by Max Hummel . In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau , 13th year (1929), no. 3, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 109-opus-8718 , pp. 89–95.
- ↑ Renovation and expansion of the town hall (Kassel) (project description) and renovation and extension of the town hall with hotel Kassel (PDF; 128 KB) at HHS Planer + Architekten AG , on hhs.ag
- ↑ Name of the forecourt of the town hall in down-to-earth concrete skilled workers with a picture book career, from December 5, 2011, on stadt-kassel.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 39 ″ E