Alberthöhe (Dresden)

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formerly "Hotel and Ballhaus Alberthöhe", 2018, Max-Hünig-Strasse 13, Dresden-Klotzsche

The Alberthöhe is an elevation 103 meters above the city in the Dresden district of Klotzsche, around which the district of the same name developed. It was named after the "Hotel and Restaurant Alberthöhe" built on it in 1888.

history

"Hotel and Ballhaus Alberthöhe", 1900, Georgstrasse 14, Klotzsche

With the expansion of Klotzsche at the end of the 19th century, a new district around the Alberthöhe was created in addition to the districts of Königswald and Schänkhübel.

The hotel at Georgstraße 14 (today Max-Hünig-Straße 13) was on the 0.6 hectare site of a former electoral bird trap . In 1899, a ballroom with 1,000 seats was added to the design by the architect and builder Johann Wachs. Because of its location on the outskirts and the good view into Saxon Switzerland , the house soon developed into one of the most popular excursion destinations. In the 1930s the location was further modernized; a roof terrace with a café, outdoor area and open dance floor in the garden area adjacent to the Dresdner Heide were put into operation.

In 1935, Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann granted Klotzsche town charter in a ceremony. During the Second World War the Alberthöhe served as a military hospital . From 1945 to mid-1952 it was used multiple times, for example as an interim venue for the Dresden theater and as a film theater. The local chronicle reports on this:

"[...] Erich Ponto , Arno Schellenberg , Kurt Böhme , Christel Goltz , Elisabeth Reichelt and Bernd Aldenhoff , to name just a few , also played on the Alberthöhe stage . [...] Siegfried Bannack "

- Quoted from chronicle of Dresden-Klotzsche

The film theater called “Lichtspiele Alberthöhe” in the ballroom offered space for around 500 spectators and was set up as an alternative venue for the “Schänkhübel Lichtspiele” confiscated in 1945 by the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD). The cinema-goers were able to sit on chairs both in the area of ​​the ball and on the surrounding balcony areas. The screen was in the south-facing stage area. The Weigand family, formerly the operators of the "Schänkhübel-Lichtspiele", ran the cinema until 1952.

Thereafter, the Dresden chocolatier Herbert Wendler , the inventor of the domino , converted it into a baked goods factory. This was nationalized on the basis of the GDR Council of Ministers resolution of 1972 and re-privatized after reunification in 1990. After the company was liquidated in 1996, the ensemble of buildings in the front part of the property became a residential complex and was added to the list of cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony. The rear part of the property bordering the forest is privately owned by the descendants of the company founder Wendler.

Web links

literature

  • Carola Zeh: Motion picture theater in Saxony - development, documentation and inventory analysis . Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-3166-6
  • Dubbers and Bannack: Klotzsche - From the history of a district . Edited by Büro für Journalistik, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-937199-39-9
  • Ralf Kulka: Ball houses in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag Dresden, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-15-9
  • Siegfried Bannack: Chronicle of Dresden-Klotzsche . Self-published, Dresden 2001.
  • Address book for Dresden and its suburbs, 1904.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ralf Kulka: Ball houses in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag Dresden, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-15-9 , p. 77.
  2. ^ Dubbers and Bannack: Klotzsche - From the history of a district . Edited by Büro für Journalistik, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-937199-39-9 , p. 41.
  3. ^ Ralf Kulka: Ball houses in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag Dresden, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-15-9 , p. 76 ff. And P. 163.
  4. ^ Siegfried Bannack: Chronicle of Dresden-Klotzsche . Self-published, Dresden 2001, p. 157.
  5. ↑ Carola Zeh: Lichtspieltheater in Sachsen - development, documentation and analysis of the current situation . Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-3166-6 , p. 199.
  6. ^ Dubbers and Bannack: Klotzsche - From the history of a district . Edited by Büro für Journalistik, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-937199-39-9 , p. 41.
  7. ^ Ralf Kulka: Ball houses in Dresden . Sandstein Verlag Dresden, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-15-9 , pp. 76-79 and P. 163.
  8. ^ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs, 1904, part I, p. 894 and part VI, p. 132.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 0.5 ″  E