Adam's house

Design by Andreas Adam, 1745 for his house

Adamsches Haus (Stadtwaldschlößchen), at Sophienstraße 1, Dresden, decor on the main portal, photography around 1900.

Adamsches Haus at Sophienstrasse 1 in Dresden.

The Adamsche House , also known as Stadtwaldschlößchen , was a residential house on the Sophienstraße 1 Corner Post square in Dresden , which in 1745 designed by Andreas Adam was built. In 1945 the building was destroyed.

Building description and history

Due to its location between Sophienstrasse and Wallanlage, the house had a trapezoidal floor plan. The decorated main facade facing the street and the rear facade were nine-axis, the south facade five-axis. The courtyard washing house was connected to the narrower north side. The main facade facing Sophienstrasse was given a special decoration. The ground floor zone with segmented arched windows showed rusticated ribbons, in the central axis there was a wide arched portal, the upper cornice of which arched upwards. Inside sat an elaborately designed rococo cartridge, which was accompanied by palm branches and flower chains on the sides and crowned by a woman's mask with a plume. The central axis of the risalit was specially designed, the window on the third floor was designed in the shape of a round arch. The window shafts on the side of this axis were made wider. Together with the high-arching floor cornice here, the “compositional center of the entire front” was created in this arched window on the third floor.

In 1865 the building came into the possession of the Actiengesellschaft der Societätsbrauerei , which established a bar with an attached beer garden there. Around 1900, a single-storey extension was built around the building, which was used for the restaurant but also for various shops, including the Pfunds dairy in Dresden. A wall surrounded the beer garden facing the lively Postplatz. The Adamsche House was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

Art historical significance

Cornelius Gurlitt praised this building as "[...] a peculiar composition that is enhanced by masterfully modeled rococo cartridges". Fritz Löffler writes that the house must be considered an "original contribution to the architecture of the time [...]". According to Stefan Hertzig , Andreas Adam has "succeeded in creating another masterpiece of his architecture" with his own house.

In addition to the structure of pilaster strips that is typical of Knöffel , a motif that is characteristic of Andreas Adam appears on the house - the motif of the " Portail en niche ". Elaborate rococo jewelry is located on both the portal and the niche above the central window on the third floor. The Adamsche house is on the Dresdner vistas of Bernardo Bellotto to see, so to The Saturn bastion with the Wilschen gate and the kennel .

Bernardo Bellotto :
Adam's house from The Saturn Bastion with the Wilschen Gate .
The Saturn Bastion with the Wilschen Tor by Canaletto, in the background Adam's house .
Zwinger " by Canaletto, in the background Adam's house .

Individual evidence

↑ "Due to the very good sources, the research had no reason to doubt both the date of construction and Andreas Adams as the architect who designed his own house." (Source: Stefan Hertzig : Das Dresdner Bürgerhaus des Spätbarock 1738-1790 . Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden e.V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , p. 94 . )

↑ ^a ^b Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738 - 1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 98 .

↑ Lars Kühl: Favorite bar on Postplatz. Sächsische Zeitung of December 17, 2016, p. 18

↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 720. online

^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 280 .

^ Stefan Hertzig: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , page 228.

literature

Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738 - 1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 94-99 .
Johann Christian Hasche : Attempt at a Dresden Art History . In: Johann Christian Hasche: Magazin der Sächsischen Geschichte , 1, Dresden 1784, p. 340.

Web links

Commons : Adamsches Haus - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

51.051531 13.734396Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 3.8 ″ E

[1] "Due to the very good sources, the research had no reason to doubt both the date of construction and Andreas Adams as the architect who designed his own house." (Source: Stefan Hertzig : Das Dresdner Bürgerhaus des Spätbarock 1738-1790 . Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden e.V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , p. 94 . )

[Hertzig_98-2] Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738 - 1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 98 .

[3] Lars Kühl: Favorite bar on Postplatz. Sächsische Zeitung of December 17, 2016, p. 18

[4] Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 720. online

[5] Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 280 .

[6] Stefan Hertzig: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , page 228.