Walpurgis Hall
The Walpurgishalle on the Hexentanzplatz near Thale in the Harz Mountains is a building in a modeled on "old Germanic" style.
history
The idea for the Walpurgishalle came from the painter Hermann Hendrich . He decided to build the hall on the Hexentanzplatz after his original idea of building a hall on the Brocken could not be realized. In 1901, the hall was built in the style of an old Germanic log house , designed by the Berlin architect Bernhard Sehring , and inaugurated that same year.
The original five large paintings inside the hall were created by Hermann Hendrich . These show five scenes from the Walpurgis Night by Goethe's Faust : will-o'-the-wisps dance, mammons cave, witches dance, the bride of the wind and the appearance of Gretchen ( Gretchen tragedy ). Today the hall is a museum. Two more paintings by Hermann Hendrich were later exhibited in the entrance area. In 1928, the Walpurgishalle was supplemented by a further extension. Hendrich's paintings were also shown in it.
The museum can be visited from April to October.
Mural
Dance of wisps
Mammons Cave
Witch dance
Wind bride
Gretchen apparition
Web links
- Walpurgishalle , painting by Hermann Hendrich
- Page about the Walpurgis Hall of the "Nibelungen Hort"
Individual evidence
- ^ Geyer, Ernst: Hermann Hendrich - My life and work . Bonovoluntas Verlag (Kurt Frömberg) Krummhübel i./R., Leipzig p. 33
- ↑ The Walpurgishalle at harzlife.de, accessed on September 23, 2017
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 9.8 " N , 11 ° 1 ′ 47.5" E