Club house (Schwerin)

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former club house
Stephanusstift and clubhouse (1950s)

The former club house with the Wichernsaal in Schwerin , Schelfstadt district , Apothekerstraße 48, is a monument in Schwerin .

history

The three-storey clinker club house was built in 1893 as an extension of the adjoining Stephanusstift and hostel "Zur Heimat" in the style of the Wilhelminian era. It has a single-storey, historically significant, rear hall extension, the Wichernsaal , named after the theologian and social educator Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), founder of the Evangelical Church's Inner Mission . The client was the youth club , a predecessor of the YMCA . The network of “ Herbergen zur Heimat ” offered wandering craftsmen, travelers and homeless people cheap, safe and Christian accommodation. The house was used as a club house and hostel until the 1930s. After 1945 it was used for church and diaconal purposes. In the front building there was a church kindergarten .

The hall was once the meeting place for the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mecklenburg . It also serves as a rehearsal room for the symphony orchestra , for church choirs and groups of musicians as well as for exhibitions, district festivals and family celebrations. In the time of the GDR, the church hall offered non-governmental groups a place for conferences and discussions and opposition songwriters the opportunity to perform. In the fall of 1981, for example, there was a first gathering of environmentalists and nuclear opponents.

After a long slumber , the hall was refurbished from 2018 to 2020 with EU funds. A new gallery was installed as a steel construction on the north side. On the south side of the inner courtyard, a new steel-glass construction forms a new outer wall, whereby the old half-timbered outer wall could be preserved.

The front building with small seminar rooms, offices and ancillary function rooms is used by the Diakonisches Werk Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as an educational facility and meeting center. After the construction work was completed, the bust of Wichern was given its old place in the foyer.

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  1. ^ Church in the GDR: "Like Noah during the flood" , Der Spiegel of November 16, 1981, accessed on July 16, 2020
  2. ↑ State capital Schwerin from July 7th 2017: Schwerin Wichernsaal is to be extensively renovated - three million project is funded with European funds.
  3. ^ Christian Koepke: Wichernsaal: A gem in the middle of Schwerin. In Schweriner Volkszeitung on December 22, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 ′ 55.2 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 56.9"  E