Zeppelin Hall (Darmstadt)
The Zeppelin Hall is a former industrial building in Darmstadt .
history
In 1921, in Dywity near Allenstein / East Prussia, an airship hangar that had been built a few years earlier was dismantled because the Versailles Treaty stipulated the dismantling and handover of all war material. However, since the Allies were not interested in the hall, the Darmstadt-based company Bahnbedarf A.-G. buy the hall. She had the steel hall structures dismantled and transported to Darmstadt.
In 1922/23 the two zeppelin halls were arranged one behind the other, with a transfer platform between them, shorter and lower. They were equipped with tracks and were used to repair railway vehicles. Instead of the original corrugated iron facade , the buildings were given an expressionistically designed facade with dark clinker bricks, light concrete cornices and walls, based on plans by Jan Hubert Pinand . The stepped gables on the narrow sides and above the risalits on the long side are typical of the construction period ; as well as the muntin division on the round windows in the south facade.
The southern zeppelin hall burned down in 1977 and was not rebuilt. The preserved northern zeppelin hall was used as a warehouse from the 1970s to the 1990s. Around 1999 a parking garage was installed. There is a youth center on the upper floor of the hall.
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 554.
- Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , pp. 1014f.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 40.8 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 29.2" E