AOK administration building (Dresden)
The AOK administration building is located at Sternplatz 7 in Dresden . It was built for the AOK Dresden and today houses one of the two main offices of the AOK Plus .
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Building land
The administration building of the local health insurance fund stands on a historic square in the former village and later district of Poppitz . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1315 and incorporated by the city of Dresden around 1550. The Annengemeinde laid out the New Annenkirchhof at this point in 1712 . In 1911 the cemetery was secularized after burials could only take place with a special permit from 1867.
Thus, the area at Sternplatz, Polierstrasse and Maternistrasse - named after the restaurant Zum Goldenen Stern - was 4045 square meters free for the construction of an administration building for the local health insurance fund in Dresden. The area was purchased for 375,000 marks and construction based on designs by the Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner could begin. The foundation stone was laid on November 2, 1912 after the excavation of the huge excavation began on September 14, 1912. The main construction work was carried out by Johann Ordorico GmbH ; a total of almost 150 Dresden companies were involved in the construction.
Construction of the historic old building
The four-storey building is a reinforced concrete structure and has a “compact cubature” which is structured by “large forms of extended mansard floors , colossal pilasters and window parapets ”. “The unity, uniformity and homogeneity of the facade underpin the statics of the building.” Two large figures made of tufa flank the portal on both sides : nursing mother on one side and worker on the other. The portal is divided, with a larger than life atlas figure between the two doors . All three figures were created by Selmar Werner . With their monumental design language, they “complement the massive and defiant castle character of this building”. The figures on the fourth floor come from Georg Türke and are arranged in pairs in cast stone : worker , carpenter , baker , bricklayer , locksmith , blacksmith , stonemason and carpenter . A surrounding eaves cornice was installed between the third and fourth floors, which is covered with roof tiles . The cornice “seems to separate the building into the roof and substructure parts, which makes the enormous proportions clear and leads to an immense monumentalization”. The fourth floor of the house increases the monumental effect of the roof because it appears as part of the extended mansard roof and not the facade.
While the three-dimensional jewelry, “like broken oval and square plaster mirrors and non-objective ornaments ” would be typical elements of reform architecture, the design of the tower in particular anticipated elements of Art Deco . The height of the ridge is eleven meters above the ridge and ends with a globe one meter in diameter. This is framed by small falcon heads. In the middle of the tower there is a clock with dials made of colored mosaic stones. With the renovation of the building, several nest boxes for kestrels were attached to the roof.
This building is an example of the monumental style within the reform architecture and was occupied after 15 months of construction on December 30, 1913, and the local health insurance fund began working one day later. The building is 96 meters long on Sternplatz, 50 meters on Maternistraße and 81 meters on Polierstraße. The building has a height to the ridge of 31.33 meters and 37.46 meters to the top of the roof ridge. The construction costs amounted to 3,134,083.45 marks. The area could not be built on in a closed manner; there had been a number of residential buildings on Josephinenstrasse since 1650. These were destroyed in the bombing raids on Dresden in 1945 and were generously cleared of rubble. The Church of St. Anne and the administration building were the only ones to survive the bombing in Seevorstadt-West .
During the GDR era, almost the entire building was used as a polyclinic (in today's sense: medical center ). On Josephinenstrasse (in GDR times: Kurt-Schlosser- Strasse) and in the damaged area there was a heating center of the forerunner of today's Dresdner Stadtwerke (DREWAG), which is now in the basement of the extension building.
Construction of the extension building
In 1992 the polyclinic was finally closed, the building had meanwhile been restored to the AOK.
It was not until 1996 that the side on Josephinenstrasse became free for an extension, which was added as a modern new building between 1996 and 1998 on behalf of the Dresden Regional Directorate of AOK Saxony. The construction company responsible was Müller & Altvatter. The foundation stone was laid on December 5, 1996. The topping-out ceremony was successfully honored on September 25, 1997 with the lifting of the topping-out crown . The completion of the adapted extension building was celebrated as early as September 1998. Two months later, the move was completed and it could be used. The extension was placed on the historical wing of the building and its basic concept adopted. The customer service departments with the branches and the outpatient and inpatient care of the offices are located above a two-storey underground car park . Furthermore, the legal / auditing and data protection departments have their place in the extension. The fourth floor is reserved for the board of directors. The construction costs amounted to 29 million DM. In 1998/1999 the wing of the building on Polierstrasse was completely renovated and from 1999 to 2001 the side on Sternplatz.
literature
- Handbook of German Art Monuments : Saxony, I: Administrative Region Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich and Berlin 2005, p. 75.
- Volker Helas , Gudrun Peltz : Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
- Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 .
- Festschrift: Always there. 100 years of AOK at Sternplatz , authors: Hannelore Strobel, Cornelia Haustein, Stephanie Petermann, Druck Cubicworx GmbH Dresden, 2013.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hübner et al., P. 15 image no. 6th
- ↑ a b c Festschrift: Always there. 100 years of AOK at Sternplatz , authors: Hannelore Strobel, Cornelia Haustein, Stephanie Petermann, Druck Cubicworx GmbH Dresden, 2013
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 46.7 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 35" E