ヘラクレス・ザール Herkulessaal
The Hercules Hall (originally called the New Hercules Hall) is a concert hall in the Munich Residenz.
History
The Herkulessaal is located in the Festsaalbau, which forms the northern end of the residence towards the courtyard garden. This tract was built under Louis I and originally contained a sequence of rooms that culminated in the throne room. In the roof area, Ludwig II had a conservatory with an artificial lake, moorish kiosk, fisherman's hut and exotic flora and fauna built, but it was demolished as early as 1897. In 1944, this wing of the residence was also badly damaged by bomb hits, but not more so than other parts, which were painstakingly restored to the original soon after the war using outsourced interiors. The banquet halls were not undatably lost, but the art of the 19th century, and especially the classicist-historicist Munich school, was deeply popular and, as in many other cases (e.B. Neue Pinakothek, interior design of the Glyptothek, All Saints' Court Church), was decided against reconstruction.
With the Odeon, Munich's ancestral concert hall was destroyed in the bombing war. In 1951, only the historic facade was restored and the building was converted into the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. To compensate, it was decided to build a new concert hall in the ballroom building of the residence. This was done between 1951 and 1953 by Felix Finkbeiner in monumental classicist style, often criticized for his closeness to Nazi architecture. The name "Herkulessaal" derives from a series of tapestries commissioned by Duke Albrecht V in 1565, which depict the herculeanage. The tapestries hung in the hall until 1993 and were subsequently replaced by printed copies. Since about 1600, a ballroom called "Herkulessaal" existed in the Hofdamenstock of the residence, which was also destroyed in the war. It was rebuilt in 1959 and later renamed the Max Joseph Hall to avoid confusion.
Usage
The hall has 1,270 seats and 180 standing places. As a concert hall, the Hercules Hall with a size of 43.15 m × 22.35 m follows the shoebox principle. It is used for symphony concerts as well as chamber music. Since there is a lack of a large church room with good acoustics in Munich, spiritual choral works are also often performed in the Hercules Hall. For large-scale symphonic music there was next to the Congress Hall at the Deutsches Museum,from 1985 then the Philharmonie am Gasteig. While the Munich Philharmonic enjoys hausrecht in the Gasteig, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra plays partly there, partly in the Herkulessaal, where it hosts two subscription series. Private concert organizers offer subscription series for piano and chamber music. Ambitious amateur orchestras and choirs also perform in the Hercules Hall.