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27-407: On September 16, 1882, Miesbach became the starting point for the first long-distance transmission of electric power in the world. A 1,343 voltage power transmission line transferred electricity from Miesbach over a distance of 35 miles (57 km) to Munich. The starting point was the technologically advanced Miesbach mine, where electricity was generated using a steam engine. On the receiving end in

54-492: A five-nave and two-storey main building in the hall with a transept in the middle and rectangular extensions at the ends of the longitudinal ship had a length of 234 meters and was 67 meters wide; the height was 25 meters. The building was built entirely of glass and cast iron, load-bearing walls were completely omitted. The 1,700 tons of prefabricated iron parts were made by Cramer-Klett in Nuremberg. The company Cramer-Klett

81-574: A lower-valued South German Gulden worth 1 ⁄ 24 Cologne Mark of fine silver, or 5 ⁄ 12 Conventionsthaler , or 9.744 g silver per gulden. Currency was issued only up to 3 and 6 kreutzer Landmünze (or local coins, of 1 ⁄ 20 and 1 ⁄ 10 Gulden ), with larger Austrian coins accepted at a 20% higher value in Southern Germany. This Conventionsthaler , containing 23.3856 g fine silver and valued at 2.4 Gulden (or 9.744 g per Gulden ),

108-684: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Glaspalast (Munich) The Glaspalast (Glass Palace) was a glass and iron exhibition building located in the Old botanical garden in Munich modeled after the Crystal Palace in London. The Glaspalast opened for the first General German Industrial Exhibition on 15 July 1854. Following other examples around Europe, the Glaspalast

135-694: The Carolin d'or of 7.51 g fine gold at 11 Gulden in Southern Germany versus 9 Gulden in Austria. Each South German gulden was therefore worth 7.51 ÷ 11 = 0.6827 g fine gold or 0.6827 × 14.5 = 9.9 g fine silver. The South German states therefore could not comply with the Austrian currency convention of 1754 which set the Austro-Hungarian gulden at 1 ⁄ 2 Conventionsthaler , or 11.6928 g fine silver. They instead adopted

162-587: The Goldmark in 1873 as it began to standardise to a single currency within its borders, and chose to decimalise. One Mark, (written as 1 ℳ ), was subdivided into one-hundred Pfennig (written as 100 ₰ ), with the mark having an exchange equal to 35 kreutzer, or 7 ⁄ 12 gulden, as the South German Gulden began to be withdrawn over the next three years. From 1 January 1876 the Gulden and

189-655: The Gulden used in Southern Germany and the Austrian Empire adhered to the Leipzig standard, with the Gulden worth 1 ⁄ 18 a Cologne Mark of fine silver or 1 ⁄ 2 the Reichsthaler specie coin, or 12.992 g per Gulden . Below is a history (in terms of grams of silver) of the standards of the South German Gulden from 1690 until the gold standard was introduced in 1873. A comparison with

216-534: The Munich Glass Palace , an electric pump powered an artificial waterfall . With this, Oskar von Miller and Marcel Deprez were able to show that electric power could indeed be transferred over long distances. Miesbach is the birthplace of Verismo painter Christian Schad . The mayor is Gerhard Braunmiller (CSU). He was elected in 2020. [REDACTED] Media related to Miesbach at Wikimedia Commons This Miesbach district location article

243-698: The Vienna Monetary Treaty introduced a second Vereinsmünze in the form of the Vereinsthaler , with fractionally less silver than the Prussian Thaler, but still valued at 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 Gulden. While the 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 South German gulden coin was redenominated as 2 Vereinsthaler, no changes were made to the other denominations. Following the Unification of Germany in 1871, the newly formed German Empire adopted

270-511: The 75 completely burned halls, had first to be forcibly restrained by police. A meeting at the Ministry of Culture, which ended in the afternoon, has decided to immediately initiate a relief by a public appeal to the German people on the occasion of national calamity ... After the fire, plans were made to rebuild the Glaspalast . However, the plans were abandoned in 1933 after seizure of power by

297-649: The Glaspalast, which remained intact, today stands in the center of the Weißenburger Platz in the Haidhausen quarter of Munich. South German gulden The South German Gulden was the currency of the states of Southern Germany between 1754 and 1873. These states included Bavaria , Baden , Württemberg , Frankfurt and Hohenzollern . It was divided into 60 kreuzer , with each kreuzer worth 4 pfennig or 8 heller . This specific Gulden

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324-529: The Glass Palace is one of the biggest destructive disasters to Europe's art. In Germany since the Thirty Years' War were never at one time so many works of art destroyed as by this fire. Only 80 of the 2820 exhibited works of painting, graphics and sculpture were rescued. The damage is estimated to be between 25 and 30 million Marks. [...] A special tragicomedy was the fact that the pictures rejected by

351-484: The Gulden at 2 ⁄ 49 Cologne mark or 9.545 g of silver. This allowed for an exchange rate of 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 Gulden to 1 Prussian Thaler . In addition to the 3 and 6 kreutzer and smaller pieces, new coins were introduced in denominations of 1 ⁄ 2 , 1 and 2 Gulden, as well as the Vereinsmünze (Union Coin) worth 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 South German gulden or 2 Prussian thalers . In 1857

378-531: The building was built in 1854 to the north of the Old Botanical Garden close to the Stachus . Following the completion of 1853 Schrannenhalle  [ de ] and the planned and conservatory of Munich Residence, a glass with cast iron design was used, using existing experience for this modern building. As with the Crystal Palace in London, initial designs were relatively complex. Due to

405-503: The early 19th century including many paintings by Caspar David Friedrich , Moritz von Schwind , Karl Blechen , and Philipp Otto Runge . A further 1,000 works by contemporary artists at that time were heavily damaged and only 80 artworks were recovered unharmed. The daily newspaper " Neues Wiener Tagblatt " reported on the following day, June 7, 1931, in a telegram: The fire of the Munich Glass Palace, S. 4: The fire of

432-417: The feasibility of bringing electrical power over long distances. In 1858, the "First German general and historical art exhibition" organized in the palace, followed in 1869 by the "I. International Art Exhibition", 1888 "III. International Art Exhibition". From 1889, the Crystal Palace was almost exclusively used for art exhibitions. This affected the forum and place of the international art trade. When it

459-410: The higher-valued Austro-Hungarian gulden is also included. The course of value of the Gulden before 1618 is found under Reichsthaler . The Gulden departed from this standard in the 1730s when the gold-silver price ratio dropped from 15 to 14.5, prompting many states to reissue their Gulden in cheaper gold. The South German Gulden then departed from the Austro-Hungarian gulden after it valued

486-450: The jury were stored in an adjacent shed not affected by the fire. About the cause of the fire only assumptions are known. Provisional Rumor of a discontented artistic revenge, but which cannot be confirmed. The initial investigations show that the fire may have broken out in the carpentry shop, where work continued on the day. 20 firefighters were injured in the rescue work. Director-General Zimmermann, who risked his life to save treasures from

513-646: The new Nazi government. Instead of rebuilding the palace, the government built the Haus der Kunst (House of Art) on the Prinzregentenstraße near the Englischer Garten (a public park). In 1936 a small exhibition pavilion was built, but was destroyed in World War II. This was rebuilt by artists after the war. The Park Cafe now stands on the site of the Glaspalast. The fountain of

540-458: The opening was overshadowed as first the staff and later the exhibition guests were affected by cholera . In 1882 the first electrically lit international electrotechnical exhibition took place in the Glass Palace. The German engineer Oskar von Miller had built a 2000 volt DC overhead power line from Miesbach , 50 km distant, to bring power to Munich. At the exhibition, an electrically powered pump for an artificial waterfall demonstrated

567-410: The short time available for construction, the design was significantly simplified and relied on use of standard components. Conventional construction methods were not possible due to the large amount of building materials required. The two-storey building was 234 metres (768 ft) long, 67 metres (220 ft) wide and 25 metres (82 ft) high. The elongated rectangular glass palace, in the form of

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594-512: Was 800,000 guldens . The Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung opened five weeks later, only three years after the completion of the Crystal Palace in London, which served as its model. Just three years after the completion of the Crystal Palace in London, which served as a model, the First General German Industrial Exhibition opened at the newly built glass palace on 15 July 1854. However

621-662: Was based on the Gulden or florin used in the Holy Roman Empire during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period . The Gulden first emerged as a common currency of the Holy Roman Empire after the 1524 Reichsmünzordnung in the form of the Guldengroschen . In the succeeding centuries the Gulden was then defined as a fraction of the Reichsthaler specie or silver coin. As of 1690

648-534: Was ordered by Maximilian II , King of Bavaria , in order to hold the Erste Allgemeine Deutsche Industrieausstellung (First General German Industrial Exhibition ) on 15 July 1854. Originally it was planned to erect the building on Maximiliansplatz  [ de ] . However, the relevant Commission decision preferred an area near the railway station. Designed by architect August von Voit and built by MAN AG ,

675-488: Was planned, following the industrial exhibition, it was assumed that the Glaspalast would be used as a greenhouse. However it was almost exclusively used for international art exhibitions and artist festivals. The building was destroyed in a fire on June 6, 1931, a fate shared with the other crystal palaces. The cause of the fire was later determined to be arson . The fire in the Glaspalast irretrievably destroyed more than 3,000 artworks including more than 110 paintings from

702-492: Was superseded between 1807 and 1837 by the minting of Kronenthaler coins containing 25.71 g fine silver but valued at 2.7 gulden (or only 9.524 g per Gulden ), in a competitive currency depreciation between the various South German states. The French écu of 26.67 g fine silver was also accepted at 2.8 gulden. The situation above was only resolved by the Munich Coin Treaty of 1837 which redefined

729-661: Was the leader at this time in southern Germany in the field of iron constructions, the company had previously built the Großhesseloher bridge  [ de ; hu ; vi ] in Munich and also the Maximilian II conservatory. For this construction, the glass was produced in the more traditional Schmidsfelden glass works. Construction was a mere six months, from 31 December 1853 to 7 June 1854, during which time 37,000 windows were installed. The total cost of construction

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