Plan Arrested
The window-mounted black-and-white image that I included in this photograph shows an artist’s depiction of the architects’ vision for the incomplete shell behind it–the Nazi Party’s Congressional Hall (Kongresshalle), which was designed to seat 50,000 people. Forced-labor construction of this building was halted by Allied Forces at the end of World War II. The portion of the brick structure included in my photograph is only a small part of the whole; it corresponds to the rightmost 20% of the black-and-white image. At the top of my photograph is a rooftop observation platform that protrudes over the red brick wall. Beneath it is a broad horizontal band of the wall that features ten rows of jutting-out rectangles; running horizontally along its base is a catwalk with a guardrail. The backs of the simulated columns shown in the black-and-white plan would have been mounted to these jutting-out rectangles, and this shows how tall those simulated columns would have been. Conversely, the artist’s depiction shows how far the ceiling would have soared above the top of this brick wall. The catwalk marks where the circumferential walkway at the base of the columns would have been located. Spaced out along this band of red brick wall are doors that are topped by parabola-shaped arches. These doors would have led into the aisles that descended into the top tier of seats. Immediately to the left of the black-and-white image (to the left of its columns) is a large, rectangular doorway whose bricked-off passage is painted with a large, faint “H.” Farther to its left is a similar doorway painted with a large “G.” Down-sloping continuations of these passageways would have opened into the main floor of the Congressional Hall. Just above the concrete lintel that tops the doorway marked “H” are three smaller doorways. Continuations of these would have led to the aisles that descended into the lower tier of seats (which slope downward toward the main floor). More information about this structure and its history are provided with my accompanying picture, “Inner Court of the Nazi Party’s Never-Completed Congressional Hall.” 12 July 2015, Documentation Center, Nazi Party Rallying Grounds (Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände), Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria (Bayern), Germany (Deutschland).
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Plan Arrested
The window-mounted black-and-white image that I included in this photograph shows an artist’s depiction of the architects’ vision for the incomplete shell behind it–the Nazi Party’s Congressional Hall (Kongresshalle), which was designed to seat 50,000 people. Forced-labor construction of this building was halted by Allied Forces at the end of World War II. The portion of the brick structure included in my photograph is only a small part of the whole; it corresponds to the rightmost 20% of the black-and-white image. At the top of my photograph is a rooftop observation platform that protrudes over the red brick wall. Beneath it is a broad horizontal band of the wall that features ten rows of jutting-out rectangles; running horizontally along its base is a catwalk with a guardrail. The backs of the simulated columns shown in the black-and-white plan would have been mounted to these jutting-out rectangles, and this shows how tall those simulated columns would have been. Conversely, the artist’s depiction shows how far the ceiling would have soared above the top of this brick wall. The catwalk marks where the circumferential walkway at the base of the columns would have been located. Spaced out along this band of red brick wall are doors that are topped by parabola-shaped arches. These doors would have led into the aisles that descended into the top tier of seats. Immediately to the left of the black-and-white image (to the left of its columns) is a large, rectangular doorway whose bricked-off passage is painted with a large, faint “H.” Farther to its left is a similar doorway painted with a large “G.” Down-sloping continuations of these passageways would have opened into the main floor of the Congressional Hall. Just above the concrete lintel that tops the doorway marked “H” are three smaller doorways. Continuations of these would have led to the aisles that descended into the lower tier of seats (which slope downward toward the main floor). More information about this structure and its history are provided with my accompanying picture, “Inner Court of the Nazi Party’s Never-Completed Congressional Hall.” 12 July 2015, Documentation Center, Nazi Party Rallying Grounds (Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände), Nuremberg (Nürnberg), Bavaria (Bayern), Germany (Deutschland).
2015-07-12 GGP07441 Nuremberg Kongresshalle Plan Arrested.jpg