Ballhaus Watzke

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The Watzke ballroom, seen from Leipziger Strasse

The Ballhaus Watzke (own name: Ball- & Brauhaus Watzke ) in Dresden on the corner of Leipziger Straße and Kötzschenbroder Straße in the Mickten district ( district of Pieschen ) is a restaurant built at the end of the 19th century with a ballroom on the upper floor and an in-house brewery . The building is a listed building .

history

Ballhaus Watzke, seen from Leipziger Strasse

Around 1790, in the (fishing) village of Pieschen near Dresden, the first building outside the village center was a farmer's tavern, which was extended and increased in 1804. The housekeeper Gottlob Dietzen ran a brandy distillery in this house . But Dietzen did not get a license and got into debt so much that his house had to be auctioned for 855 thalers. The buyer was the brewer Gottlob Wilhelm Huebner. In 1814, he received a license to sell “brandy, Dresden city beer and wine” and set up an inn.

On July 27, 1838, the brandy distiller Karl Joseph Watzke acquired the pub including the pub license. He gave it the name Watzke's garden restaurant with a terrace on the Elbe . The restaurant remained in the family and has been expanded several times. The population in the (now) workers' residential area of ​​Pieschen had risen sharply in the last years of the 19th century. When it was incorporated into Dresden in 1897, the old economy was torn down to cope with the increasing number of visitors. Gustav Paul Watzke - grandson of the first Watzke innkeeper - built his ballroom with beer garden, the restaurant on the ground floor and a large ballroom on the upper floor , close to the old town of Altpieschen . The address Meißner Straße 1 became Mickten Kötzschenbroder Straße 1. The house in neo-empire style was named Watzke's Concert- und Balletablissement . The architect was Benno Hübel , the ceiling painting in the hall was done by Emil Schulz. The building was built by the Mickten builder Gustav Richard Martin (1863–1935) in five months. On October 2nd, 1898 it was handed over "turnkey". With 770 seats, the house had one of the largest of the 70 ballrooms in the city of Dresden. After Paul Watzke was drafted into the military in 1914, the house was temporarily used as soldiers' accommodation.

Back across the Elbe, left: beer garden

After Paul Watzke's death in 1937, his widow Alma Watzke took over the business. With the outbreak of war in 1939, business operations were discontinued and the rooms were once again used as military accommodation. As the area at the Pieschener Winkel was largely spared from war damage, numerous Dresden residents were drawn to the Watzke restaurant, which was reopened by Alma Watzke, in the summer of 1945 . In the ballroom on the upper floor, a daily variety program was offered as a diversion for the population of the destroyed Dresden . Just five years later, the restaurant had to close because it could not withstand competition with state-subsidized HO restaurants. The term Watzke remained synonymous with the Pieschener Winkel, for example for the ferry from Watzke to the slaughterhouse . From the 1950s until the turn of the century , the house was used as a warehouse for HO-Sportartikel (GHG). Until 1995 there was a connection to the Ostragehege opposite with the Elbe ferry . For the area around the Pieschener Hafen the name "bei Watzke" was retained after the previous restaurant.

After a renovation in accordance with listed buildings from 1993 to 1996, the Ballhaus Watzke was reopened by Rudi Vogel from Karlsruhe. Components of the facility are various guest rooms, a house brewery on the ground floor and the ballroom on the upper floor. During the flood of the century in Saxony in August 2002, the ballroom was damaged and had to close temporarily, but was able to reopen after six months. The inn has a beer garden on the western corner of the property near the banks of the Elbe (Pieschener Winkel), from which one has a view of Dresden's old town . The historic restaurant building is located on the triangular property at Kötzschenbroder Strasse 1 (between Leipziger Strasse and Uferweg). The Watzke property 2/4 across the street is used as a parking lot .

Brewery

The ball house after a paint bag attack after the Höcke speech

In addition to the head office in Mickten, Hausbräu im Ballhaus Watzke GmbH also runs a brewery bar on the main street in Dresden's Inner Neustadt and, since April 2012, on the Dr.-Külz-Ring in the old town .

With its self-promotion as “Dresden's most beautiful ball and brewery”, Ballhaus Watzke competes with the brewery at Waldschlösschen in the Radeberger Vorstadt , which is also located near the Elbe and which advertises itself as “Dresden's most beautiful brewery”.

On January 17, 2017, AfD politician Björn Höcke gave a speech at Ballhaus Watzke that caused a stir nationwide. The criticism was also directed against the Ballhaus, which deeply regretted its “lack of preliminary examination”. Premises had already been made available to right-wing conservative groups.

marketing and advertisement

DVB - Tram with special stickers - Watzke

A tram of the Dresden public transport company was pasted as an advertising space for the Ballhaus Watzke. Since 2018 it has been traveling on various lines in the city of Dresden.

Web links

Commons : Ballhaus Watzke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dresden themed city map
  2. ↑ a b Monika Dänhardt: When the soldiers camped in the Watzke . In: Saxon newspaper . July 27, 2013 ( paid online [accessed July 29, 2013]).
  3. ↑ Address book 1896 and business manual for Trachau, Trachenberge, Mickten and Uebigau 1896
  4. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs - Mickten Year of publication 1897: Wilhelmine Watzke, widowed, restoration, Meißner Straße 1 ground floor // Meißner Straße 1: ground floor: owner Wilhelmine Watzke, widowed innkeeper, 1st floor: carpenter Hermann Woog, back building ground floor: workers Johann Helbig. // 1901 (VI. Theil, p. 362 - Mickten) still widowed restaurateur on the ground floor of Meißner Straße 1
  5. ↑ food card from Watzkes establishment. Commercial printing, ink; 11.5 x 20.0 cm, 1898. Cold dishes and warm price list
  6. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs, 1903 : VI. Theil, directory of the suburbs incorporated into the Dresden city district on January 1st, 1903: Watzke, Wilhelmine widowed, owner of a concert and balletablissement Meißner Straße 1 parterre // Date of publication 1905 : (now) Ernestine Wilhelmine Watzke with the concert and balletablissement: Mickten Kötzschenbroder Straße 1 // 1907 still Wilhelmine Watzke, 1908 missing "Watzke", from the address book 1909 the innkeeper Paul Watzke, citizen of Dresden, is mentioned as the innkeeper of the establishment.
  7. ^ Dietrich Höllhuber: Dresden. P. 84, Erlangen, 2008.
  8. ↑ Klaus Brendler: Graves at the Kaditz cemeteries. Architect and builder Curt Benno Hübel (1876–1926). www.dresdner-stadtteilzeitungen.de, April 21, 2018, accessed on April 23, 2018 .
  9. ^ Dieter Zumpe: Dresden - City of the Arts. P. 136, Munich, 2009.
  10. ↑ Address book of the Gau- und Landeshauptstadt Dresden… Year of publication 1943/44: Ground floor: Owner Alma Lina Watzke, widowed innkeeper, business premises of the Paul Watzke company // 1st floor: Hans Ficker, akad. Architect.
  11. ^ Jacobs Ferry : Watzke - Ostragehege
  12. ^ Deutschefotothek.de - Christian Borchert: Ballhaus Watzke. Hall 1995.
  13. ↑ http://www.deutschefotothek.de/documents/obj/80950951/df_hauptkatalog_0751452
  14. ↑ View from the old town bank over the Elbe (November 25, 2004)
  15. ↑ Cityscape seen from the Elbe (1925/1939)
  16. ↑ Address book of the Gau and state capital Dresden, Freital-Radebeul, ... : right side, local department. Xa: 2 u. 4 construction sites.
  17. ↑ Information on the Watzke brewery bar on the Ring , accessed on March 24, 2014.
  18. ↑ deutschefotothek.de View from the old town bank over the Elbe (1990)
  19. ↑ Höcke calls the Holocaust memorial "Monument of Shame". In: Deutschlandfunk . January 18, 2017, archived from the original on January 18, 2017 ; accessed on January 18, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Peter Maxwill: Holocaust speech: Höcke, the involuntary refugee helper. In: Spiegel Online . January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .
  21. ↑ State security determined - after Höcke speech in Dresden - paint attack on Ballhaus Watzke. In: dnn.de. January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 38.9 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 56.5"  E