ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
German National Committee of ICOMOS
Preventive Monitoring of World Cultural Heritage Sites
39. Sitzung des Welterbekomitees 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee Bonn, 28/06 - 08/07 2015 Side Event, 4th of July 2015, 13:15 – 14:45h
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany
• Jörg Haspel (Berlin): Introductory Remarks – World Heritage and Monitoring Activities • Martin Reichert (Berlin): Historic Towns – Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town Quedlinburg • Thomas Will (Dresden): Modern Heritage – Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau • Norbert Tempel (Dortmund): Industrial Heritage – Völklingen Ironworks • Ursula Schädler-Saub (Hildesheim): Restoration / Conservation – Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
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I. ICOMOS Germany
History, Activities, Publications
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ICOMOS Germany • Founded in Mainz in 1965; at present offices in Munich and Berlin • Almost 400 members (most of them individual members, only a few institutional members) • Series of publications: – ICOMOS Journals of the German National Committee – Heritage at Risk – Monumenta • Currently five Working Groups: – Restoration/Mural Painting, – Shared Built Heritage, – Industrial / Technical Heritage, – Ad-hoc Projects, – World Heritage Monitoring
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Publications Journals of the German National Committee
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Publications Heritage at Risk
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Publications Monumenta
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GERMANY
• 16 Federal States (incl. 3 City States) • 16 Laws of Heritage Protection • More than 20 Regional State Authorities of Heritage Preservation and Archaeology • No National Office or Central Heritage Board
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ICOMOS Germany – organisational characteristics
• ICOMOS Germany is organised as a nation-wide union of experts on a (supra-regional) federal level (not on the level of the 16 Federal States of Germany ) • ICOMOS Germany is (funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, but) independent of and cooperates with the regional State Conservation Authorities • ICOMOS Germany is a Non-Profit Organisation and Non-Governmental Organisation (NPO / NGO)
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II. World Heritage Sites in Germany
Facts and Figures
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GERMANY
• 40 World Heritage Sites (WHS): • 1 deleted WHS (Dresden) • 37 Cultural Sites • 3 Natural Sites • 5 transboundary sites and multinational series
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World Cultural Heritage Sites in Germany
• 25 Castles, Palaces and Parks • 20 % Cathedrals and Monasteries (Christian religious heritage) • 15 % Old Towns • 15 % Modern Heritage of 20C (partially or totally), including 10 % Industrial Heritage • 25 % other categories like monuments, ensembles, cultural landscapes
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III. Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany
The Working Group
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Publications of ICOMOS Germany focusing on World Cultural Heritage in Germany
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ICOMOS - Advisory Body of UNESCO
1. According to the World Heritage Convention of 1972 ICOMOS is an advisory body of the World Heritage Committee and of UNESCO. 2. The responsibility of the advisory bodies ICOMOS, IUCN and ICCROM is defined in articles 8, 13 and 14 of the World Heritage Convention as well as in paragraphs 30 and 31 of the Operational Guidelines. 3. The mandate of ICOMOS is defined in paragraph 35: “The specific role of ICOMOS in relation to the Convention includes: evaluation of properties nominated for inscription on the World Heritage List, monitoring the state of conservation of World Heritage cultural properties, reviewing requests for International Assistance submitted by States Parties, and providing input and support for capacity-building activities.”
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ICOMOS Global Monitoring Initiatives 1. National committees of ICOMOS – in accordance with article 4 of the ICOMOS Statutes – have a specific responsibility for World Cultural Heritage and other monuments and sites in their country. 2. Under these circumstances and due to different experiences, individual national committees have developed special initiatives to monitor the state of conservation of World Heritage sites in their country. All in all, this programme can be called Proactive Monitoring or Preventive Monitoring. 3. The concept of Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites was confirmed by the ICOMOS General Assembly in Quebec in 2008: ”Noting the valuable initiatives (...) of many National Committees to monitor World Heritage sites and other aspects of conservation (…) the 16th General Assembly acknowledge and stress the importance of preventive actions and monitoring as keys to successful protection and conservation of heritage.” 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
ICOMOS Global Monitoring Initiatives
4. Since 2008, the President of ICOMOS International, Gustavo Araoz, has further developed the Global Heritage Monitoring / Observatory Initiative.
5. Incidentally, the responsibility of Preventive Monitoring does not only concern individual World Heritage Sites, but rather – in correspondence with articles 4 and 5 of the World Heritage Convention – the entire cultural heritage.
6. The Heritage@Risk program – endorsed by ICOMOS at the General Assembly in Mexico in 1999 – is part of the ICOMOS initiative to build a Global Heritage Monitoring / Observatory Network (to identify threatened World Heritage as well as monuments and sites in danger and to share remedies) 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
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The Monitoring Group of ICOMOS Germany
Initiated in the late 1990s, the monitoring group for World Heritage in Germany is made up of almost 50 experts including ICOMOS colleagues from Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and from France, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The members of this monitoring group are admitted by the board of ICOMOS Germany upon recommendation by the group.
They form an interdisciplinary team of art historians, archaeologists, architects, preservationists, town planners, structural and civil engineers, restorers etc. who work as tandem or as teams of three in accordance with the “Four-Eyes-Principle” for each site.
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Agreements of Cooperation
For the World Heritage monitoring ICOMOS Germany entered into an agreement with the Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Association of Federal Conservationists) and the German UNESCO Commission. These agreements (in German) can be found on the website of ICOMOS Germany:
1.Agreement between ICOMOS Germany and the Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger in the FRG, April 10, 2012 (see http://www.icomos.de/pdf/VereinbarungVdL_2012.pdf).
2.Agreement between ICOMOS Germany and the German UNESCO Commission, July 5, 2013 (see http://www.icomos.de/pdf/130705VereinbDUK_ICOMOSunterz.pdf).
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Working Method and Reporting
1. The task of the monitoring group is to get an overview of the state of conservation and possible changes to the World Heritage sites they are in charge of. This should be done based on on-site visits, meetings with people responsible locally and with experts, and by studying current plans. The group follows up information about measures that might harm the outstanding universal value and the integrity and authenticity of the World Heritage sites. According to the principles of the monitoring the most important aim is to “avoid or at least reduce conflicts by giving advice at an early stage”. 2. In particularly problematic cases the president of the national committee can notify the International Secretariat of ICOMOS in Paris of the situation. The Secretariat will investigate the case and, if necessary, inform the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO if a reactive monitoring seems appropriate.
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Steering Committee of the Monitoring Group
The monitoring group is represented and coordinated by a steering committee elected every three years; it consists of the speaker, three representatives of the group and of the president of the national committee. The members of the steering committee are at present:
(1)Prof. Berthold Burkhardt (speaker of the group), Braunschweig (2)Prof. Dr. Jörg Haspel; Dr. Christoph Machat, Berlin / Cologne (3)Dr. Christiane Hennen, Wittenberg (4)Dr. Gabriele Horn, Potsdam / Berlin (5)Dr. Michael Kummer, Frankfurt
The monitoring group drew up Principles for its work approved by the annual general meeting of ICOMOS Germany.
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Working Principles of the Monitoring Group
• Interdisciplinary team • „four eyes principle“ • 2 – 3 monitors per World Heritage site • Cross-sectional experts available for all sites (restorers, civil engineers, legal experts etc.) • Annual meetings of the monitoring group and exchange of information and experience • 1 – 2 site visits per year • Annual status reports on the state of conservation
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Annual meeting of the monitoring group, Goslar 2014
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany Case Studies
• Martin Reichert (Berlin): Historic Towns – Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
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Date of inscription: 1994
Outstanding universal value:
Quedlinburg was a capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ruling dynasty. It has been a prosperous trading town since the Middle Ages. The importance of Quedlinburg rests on three main elements: the preservation of the medieval street pattern; the wealth of urban vernacular buildings, especially timber-framed houses of the 16th and 17th centuries, and the important Romanesque Collegiate Church of St Servatius. The original urban layout is remarkably well preserved: it is a classic example of the growth of European medieval towns. The history of the medieval and early modern town is perfectly illustrated by the street pattern of the present-day town. The widely unspoiled silhouette of the city and its setting within a well preserved historic landscape (e.g. Landwarten) is part of its specific value. Criterion: (iv)
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Quedlinburg Facts
• Area: ca. 85 hectares “core zone” / 155 hectares “buffer zone” • 1500 plots of land 90% of these under private ownership and 10% under the ownership of the local authority, the Federal State and the church • 3400 buildings including 2070 timber-framed buildings (= 70 %) and 1660 listed monuments (48 %) • 2350 m of historic town walls
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World Heritage area and buffer zone
Source: Welterbemanagementplan, Quedlinburg 2013, p. 21
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• Erhaltungssatzung / Preservation statute (1993/2012) • Sanierungssatzung / Restoration statute (1993) • Gestaltungssatzung / Design statute (2013) • Integriertes Stadtentwicklungskonzept / Integrated urban development concept (2012)
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Statute areas
Source: Welterbemanagementplan, Quedlinburg April 2013, p. 45
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• Welterbemanagementplan / World Heritage Management Plan (2009-2012, approved in 2013) • Denkmalpflegeplan mit der „Sichtachsenanalyse“ / Conservation Plan with the “Analysis of view axes“ (2009-2012, approved in 2013)
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Historical monuments-Plan of Quedlinburg Type of building, building use and vacancies
Source: Denkmalpflegeplan mit Leerstandsanalyse, Quedlinburg April 2013, p. 92 f
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Historical monuments-Plan of Quedlinburg Urban values, building conditions and vacancies
Source: Denkmalpflegeplan mit Leerstandsanalyse, Quedlinburg April 2013, p. 94 f
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Acute need for securing and restoration
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
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Quedlinburg Breite Straße 44
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
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Quedlinburg Bockstraße 12/Jüdengasse
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
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Quedlinburg Neuer Weg 7
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
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Quedlinburg Schulstraße „Franziskanerkapelle“
Source: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
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Development of industrial areas May 2012
Source: Integriertes Stadtentwicklungskonzept, Quedlinburg September 2012, p. 51
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Quarmbeck Industrial Area “Analysis of view axes“
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Quarmbeck Industrial Area “study of view axes“
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany Case Studies
• Thomas Will (Dresden): Modern Heritage – Bauhaus Sites in Weimar / Dessau
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany
Modern Heritage - Bauhaus Sites in Weimar and Dessau
Prof. Thomas Will Technische Universität Dresden, Chair for Historic Preservation & Architectural Design ICOMOS ISC 20th Century
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schwarting Univ. of Applied Sciences Konstanz ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany
Bauhaus Sites Dessau Saxony-Anhalt Weimar Thuringia
2 Weimar Former School of Art / Applied Art, Arch. Henry van de Velde Founding Site of the Bauhaus by Walter Gropius, 1919 today Bauhaus-Universität
Van de Velde Building Gropius Room, 1919 (reconstructed)
photos Thomas Will Bauhaus Dessau Walter Gropius 1925
photo: Archiv Institut für Baugeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Denkmalpflege TU Dresden Bauhaus Dessau Icon of the Modern Movement and Functionalist Design
photo: Hans-Georg Lippert, Institut für Baugeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Denkmalpflege TU Dresden Bauhaus Sites in Dessau
Masters‘ houses
Bauhaus Dessau Monitoring 2010-2015 12 site visits, 5 internal reports
Bauhaus Building: conservation, restoration, partial reconstruction thermal upgrading new exhibition building project
Masters‘ Houses: restoration, conservation, partial reconstruction urban repair of ensemble: rebuilding of Gropius and Moholy-Nagy/Feininger houses Bauhaus Dessau
Boundaries, Buffer Zone
Map: City of Dessau-Rosslau Bauhaus Dessau 1926 2004
photos: Archive Institut für Baugeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Denkmalpflege TU Dresden Bauhaus Dessau 1926 2004
photos: Archive Institut für Baugeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Denkmalpflege TU Dresden Bauhaus Dessau Thermal Upgrading, 2010-2014
Energy Concept. Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart: Bauhaus Dessau Thermal upgrading testing new double-glazed windows
photo: Thomas Will Bauhaus Dessau Thermal upgrading testing new double-glazed windows
photo: Thomas Will Bauhaus Dessau Thermal upgrading testing new windows
New double glazed window historic single pane window
photo: Thomas Will Bauhaus Dessau Thermal upgrading, 2010-2014 photovoltaic panels on roof
photo: Archive IBAD, TU Dresden photo: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau Exhibition building project, 2013 > sites near Bauhaus rejected
Volume Study for exhibition Building, Stitung Bauhaus Dessau 2012 Bauhaus Dessau The Master‘s Houses
Boundaries, Buffer Zone
Map: City of Dessau-Rosslau Bauhaus Dessau: Masters‘ Houses Ensemble restoration / partial reconstruction 1990-2004 Muche-Schlemmer House
1998
Photo Thomas Wolf Photo Rupert Rottmann
2007 Bauhaus Dessau: Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Destroyed Double House Moholy-Nagy/Feininger, 7 March 1945
PhotoStiftung Bauhaus Dessau Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Gropius house, 1928 Emmer House on former basement, 2004
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Photo: Lucia Moholy Photo: Rupert Rottmann
Photo: Archive Stifutng Bauhaus Dessau Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble
Bauhaus-Conference „Updating Modernism“, March 2004 Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble
Competition Prize, 2010 abstracted volumes replace Gropius and Moholy Nagy/Feininger Houses
Winning competition entry, nijo Architekten, Zurich Bauhaus Dessau Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble 2nd competition: final project for realisation
BFM Architekten, Berlin Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Emmer House entrance Gropius House stairs, 2004 ,
Photos: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Moholy-Nagy House excavation of basement, 2008, subsequently destroyed
Photo: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Gropius House garage, 2004 ,
Photo: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Gropius House, Reconstruction of perimeter wall, Partial destruction of remaining wall fragment next to original garage, 2013
Photo: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble
Gropius House, stair to preserved basement, 2015
1956, remnants
Photo: Andreas Schwarting Bauhaus Dessau: Reconstitution of Masters‘ Houses Ensemble Double House Moholy-Nagy, original (left), Feininger, new (right), 2015
Photo: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / Martin Brück ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany Case Studies
• Norbert Tempel (Dortmund): Industrial Heritage – Völklingen Ironworks
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Völklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site
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Völklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site
The Monitoring Team: • Dr. Julia Gartner-Negrin, Paris, architecte du patrimoine • Prof. Oskar Spital-Frenking, Trier, Architect • Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Tempel, Dortmund, Westphalian Museum of Industry ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
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Völklingen Ironworks – World Heritage ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
1873 Ironworks founded I 1911 Monorail I 1986 Blast Furnaces closed down [Steel Works still in operation] 1994 UNESCO World Heritage I 2006 visitor paths: 3 km, partly roofed
Völklingen Ironworks – World Heritage ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
1 Sintering Plant 5 Coke Oven Batterie 2 Ore Unloading Hall 6 Water Tower 3 Charging Hall 7 Blower Engine Hall 4 Blast Furnaces 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
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Main Problems:
€ No definition of a buffer zone € No management plan € Power Station in bad state of conservation € Blower Engine House: overuse for exhibitions and events
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Völklingen Ironworks – Blower Engine House ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
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Prospective solution: reuse of the watertower as main entrance and space for exhibitions
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Völklingen Ironworks World Heritage Site THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany Case Studies
• Ursula Schädler-Saub (Hildesheim): Restoration / Conservation – The Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
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Preventive Monitoring of World Heritage Sites in Germany Ursula Schädler-Saub (Hildesheim): Conservation – Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Conservator and Art Historian, Head of the National Scientific Committee for the Conservation and Restoration of Wall Paintings and Architectural Surfaces of ICOMOS Germany. One of the tasks of the NSC: • Consultation and support in all issues concerning conservation and restoration of the World Heritage Sites in Germany On the right: Members of the German NSC visiting the late medieval wall paintings in St. Veit, Stuttgart
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Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth (Bavaria, District of Upper Franconia) An outstanding monument of Baroque theatre culture Date of inscription: June 2012
€ The Facade of the Opera House • Interior, View of the proscenium arch The Opera House is owned by the Free State of Bavaria and is in the care of the Bavarian Department for State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 (BSV). [All photos ‚ BSV] ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
The urban area of Bayreuth: • Yellow highlighting shows the area identified as buffer zone • The core zone in red is the Margravial Opera House
Photos showing the position of the Opera House from the air ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth The centrally placed cartouche with the dedication about the Court Loge: Some Historical Data: PRO FRIEDERICO ET SOPHIA IOSEPHUS GALLUS BIBIENA FECIT. Commissioned by Margravine AN[N]O DOM[IN]I MDCCXLVIII. Wilhelmine, wife of Frederick, (For Friedrich and Sophie / fecit. Giuseppe Margrave of Brandenburg– Galli Bibiena / in the year of Our Lord Bayreuth 1748) Designed and constructed by the leading theatre architect in Europe at that time, Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, 1746-1748. The façade completed in 1750. Interior decoration with the participation of the sculptors Johann G. Ränz and Johann Schnegg and the painters Johann B. Müller (ceiling painting), Wilhelm E. Wunder and others (decorative paintings) 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth: View of the auditorium and, on the right, detail of the corridor between the rear wall of the wooden loges and the external half-timbered wall of the auditorium.
Ground plan of the Opera House according to Hammitzsch, 1906 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, view of the ceiling painting depicting Apollo and the nine Muses, with the surrounding entablature, and two details of the painting on canvas, 1748 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth: A unique example of ephemeral Two details in the auditorium: on the architecture, with the interior of the left, the „Fama“ figure attached to loge panelling; on the right view of the auditorium constructed solely in wood right trumpeter’s loge with monogram FWS (Friederike Wilhelmine Sophie) 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee - Bonn 2015 ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Restoration History and current challenges of conservation RIGHT: Interior in the preservation condition before 2010; LEFT: detail of the wooden architecture with painted marble imitation, during cleaning and conservation, 2010ff.
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Margravial Opera House Bayreuth: Illusionistic painting on architectural surfaces, 1748, and its different state of conservation: Two examples of the auditorium • How can we preserve it in all its authenticity?
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Margravial Opera House Bayreuth: Details of the illusionistic painting on the wooden surfaces of the loges, 1748, and its lacunae
Recommendations for the aesthetic presentation: Don‘t retouch too much, preserve the painting in its authenticity!
Photos: U. Schädler-Saub ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Margravial Opera House Bayreuth: An example of respectful and careful conservation and presentation treatment of the illusionistic painting on the wooden surfaces, 2010ff.
Architrave on the entablature of the northern trumpeter’s loge The original painting is preserved in excellent condition
Details before (top) and after (bottom) the removal of stains and wood preservative treatment residue.
The water stains were minimised and retouched with “tonal adjustment”. ICOMOS Germany: Preventive Monitoring
Thank you for your attention!
Thanks to Prof. Dr. Matthias Staschull, Chief Conservator of the Bavarian Department for State-owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes (BVS), for his support in all issues concerning the conservation of the Margravial Opera House
Thanks to Conservator Martin Hess, Chief Conservator of the conservation project in the Margravial Opera House, for information concerning the current conservation work
Photos: Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen (BVS)
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Another opportunity to present ICOMOS Germany‘s monitoring work was on June 26, 2015 in Bonn for the Board of ICOMOS International. The case studies presented were Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, Stralsund/Wismar, Cologne Cathedral and Upper Middle Rhine Valley.
Eine weitere Gelegenheit der Präsentation der ICOMOS-Monitoringarbeit bestand am 26. Juni 2015 in Bonn für den Vorstand von ICOMOS International. Neben dem Markgräflichen Opernhaus Bayreuth wurden dort Stralsund/Wismar, der Kölner Dom und das Obere Mittelrheintal als Fallstudien vorgestellt.
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