Tonhalle Duisburg
The Tonhalle in Duisburg was a concert and theater building that opened in 1887 and destroyed in World War II.
At the instigation of Duisburg's Lord Mayor Karl Lehr , the administration of the city of Duisburg decided in 1887 to build the concert and theater building that was to serve as a venue for the municipal orchestra founded in 1877, today's Duisburg Philharmonic . Through donations and a lottery it was possible to raise 350,000 marks for the construction of the theater building. The inauguration took place on November 12, 1887 with the performance of Carl Maria von Weber's Preciosa . The Tonhalle was a neo-classical building that was embedded in the so-called Tonhalle Park on Königstrasse.
Together with the city of Düsseldorf , which had also had a permanent orchestra since 1864 and had a " Tonhalle " built from 1886 to 1890 , a theater community was founded, the tradition of which is still carried on today by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein .
In addition to the Tonhalle, construction of a new theater not far from the Tonhalle began in Duisburg in 1911. This was inaugurated on November 7, 1912. The city thus had two important theater institutions on the Lower Rhine and in the western Ruhr area. In the concert hall of the Tonhalle, which can seat around 1,200 people , Duisburg's musical life developed its supraregional significance. Well-known conductors and composers performed there in the 1920s, including Paul Hindemith , Hans Pfitzner and Wilhelm Furtwängler .
The concert hall was completely destroyed on the night of bombing on September 6, 1942. Reconstruction was no longer possible. The first discussions about a new building took place as early as 1948, but it was not until 1957 that the city of Duisburg announced a nationwide competition. In 1962 the destroyed building was replaced by the Mercator Hall.
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- City Lexicon Duisburg am Rhein (www.duisburg.de): Keyword Tonhalle. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 59 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 16 ″ E