Plan of the Forum Thomanum, Weis & Volkmann Architektur
The Forum Thomanum is a campus encompassing an area of around 6,000m² lying between Hillerstraße and Schreberstraße, Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße and Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße. Pertinently, the Sebastian-Bach-Straße runs directly through the middle. The development of the campus will be concluded by the year 2012, the 800th anniversary of the Thomaskirche, Thomasschule and Thomanerchor (St. Thomas's Church, School and Choir), resulting in an amalgam of buildings and institutions, both existing and new.
The spiritual nucleus of the campus consists of the Thomanerchor with its boarding house, the Thomasalumnat (2), the Thomasschule (1) (the Gymnasium (high school), at which all members of the choir, as well as other Leipzig schoolchildren are enrolled) and the Lutherkirche (3), the Luther Church belonging to the parish of St. Thomas. These core establishments will be supplemented by several new institutions: a nursery (4), primary school (5), International Youth Music Academy (8) with accompanying rehearsal facilities (6) and a sport and leisure complex (7).
All these constituent parts of the Forum Thomanum share one common objective: the multifaceted, artistic-based education of children & adolescents. This has, potentially, one highly desirable additional benefit: the cultivation of qualified "new blood" for the Thomanerchor. The creation of a campus of this kind is without precedent in Germany. It is also intended that the campus should function as an intellectual, cultural forum for the general public, by means of the courses, concerts, performances, exhibitions, competitions and, of course, church services to which it will play host. "A platform for artistic education and cultivation and the willing participation of all": the philosophy of the Forum Thomanum, as formulated by the project's co-initiator, Thomaskantor (Cantor of St. Thomas's), Georg Christoph Biller.
Internet:
www.forumthomanum.de
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Station 8, ehem. Blüthner-Pianoforte-Fabrik / Former Blüthner piano factory |
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Forum Thomanum, Lutherkirche / Forum Thomanum, Luther Church (Music Trip station 9) |
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