Sound Hall of the South

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The "Tonhalle des Südens"
Hall in the Tonhalle des Südens, festival afternoon for the wounded in the Flora hospital (1915)
The "Tonhalle des Südens" with park
The "Tonhalle des Südens" with a park.

The Tonhalle des Südens was a concert hall with a garden restaurant, palm house and music pavilion at Palmenstrasse 16 in the Floragarten in Düsseldorf Unterbilk . The building erected in the 1870s got its name in reference to the old Düsseldorf Tonhalle and served in the First World War as a military hospital, then as a gym, later as a taxpaying office and as a study building for the Academy for Municipal Administration . Damaged in World War II, it was later demolished. In its place stands today the Karl-Arnold-Haus der Wissenschaft by Hans Schwippert .

history

On June 8, 1875, a joint-stock company was formed with the aim of building an English-style park on the former farmland with a palm house, music pavilion, social and concert halls. This is why this was also called the “Tonhalle des Südens”. In 1902 the city took over the shares and the private garden became a public facility. The city administration converted the flora garden into a simple complex in 1903, the music pavilion was demolished and the palm house relocated. During the war, a hospital was set up in the building, later a gymnasium, and then a taxpayer office. The residents of the Düsseldorf districts of Unterbilk and Friedrichstadt protested against this until the 1930s.

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building

On Palmenstrasse stood the tall building of the garden restaurant, in whose concert hall the popular band of the 39th Infantry Regiment played twice a week. The park was lavishly laid out - “The garden, designed with spacious paths and ponds, boasted of its rich floral decorations and the exotic palm and greenhouses”.

Park

The flora garden was used to study botany, with exotic plants being shown to the public. “The Floragarten and its restaurant were a complete success in Friedrichstadt.” In the 1870s, the Floragarten took over the task of the Botanical Garden, as the city ​​theater was built on its site .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2: From the royal seat to the civil servant town (1614–1900). Schwann 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , pp. 651f.
  2. ^ Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855-1914. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, plate 136.
  3. ↑ Hugo Weidenhaupt (Ed.): Düsseldorf history from the origins to the 20th century. Volume 2: From the royal seat to the civil servant town (1614–1900). Schwann 1988, ISBN 3-491-34222-8 , pp. 651f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 17.1 ″  E