Altwettinshöhe

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The Altwettinshöhe is a historic mountain area in Zitzschewig , then an independent rural community and now a district of the Saxon town of Radebeul . Altwettinshöhe is also the short form for the two convalescent homes built there by the Dresden local health insurance fund at the end of the 19th century: the “Alt-Wettinhöhe” convalescent home for men and the “Alt-Wettinhöhe” convalescent home for women .

Convalescent home for male members of the local health insurance fund in Dresden . Postcard from 1899; View from the rear of the two-storey building
1903, after adding the three-storey building. On the right the Konradsturm, an observation tower

history

As early as the 15th century, the hilltop on the Zitzschewiger Flur, which was then known as the Landeskrone , was owned by the Meissen bishops , as were the nearby Hohenhaus and Bischofspresse . The name Wettins Höhe has been used for the summit since 1758 .

Up until the middle of the 19th century there was a winery with a vineyard and a winery on the Wettins Höhe . This belonged to the Kötzschenbrodaer pastor Johann Samuel Gottlob Flemming (1740-1827) and later to his heirs, the sons of Joh. Christian Gottlob, a Prussian judicial commissioner in Ortrand , and his brother, a lawyer in Oschatz . In addition to the residential and winegrower's house and various outbuildings, a fountain and a wine press as well as the vineyard, woodwork, field and newly cultivated wine country were documented in 1827.

On the part of the property on the mountain edge, a wine tavern was built in 1858/1859 by owner Carl Gottlob Wackwitz. To do this, he added a dance hall to his home. In addition, he built the Conradsturm [in allusion to Konrad the Great (1098–1157)], of which only remnants are preserved today. The further history of the property standing on the slope edge see under Wettinshöhe .

In 1893, the owner of the book printer, Otto Lehmann, acquired the several hectares of wooded property Alt-Wettinhöhe north of the slope edge on the plateau between Barkengasse and Auerweg for the local health insurance fund in Dresden. There, space was created for 29 people to relax in the existing buildings. These were opened on April 1, 1894 as a men's convalescent home (at the then address Barkengasse 8) by the Dresdner Krankenkasse. The convalescence house, which was expanded in 1896, was a two-story, elongated building by the master builder Karl August Starke (1846–1908), which was followed by an older, single -story building. Between 1899 and 1909, instead of the one-story building, an approximately square three-story building was built as an extension of the existing two-story building.

"The sunny, sheltered location and the dust-free forest air made the property particularly suitable for spa use." Those looking for relaxation stayed for four to eight weeks.

The Dresden local health insurance fund had the women's convalescent home with 60 beds (Krapenbergweg 3) built not far north in 1898/99, presumably by the building department of the city of Dresden, which had built a maternity home of similar cubature about five years earlier in Oberlößnitz with the Ermelhaus . The two homes were surrounded by extensive parks. The hall name "Alte Wettinshöhe", as it was to be found in the address book from 1897, became the name of the convalescent homes.

During the First World War, both homes served as a hospital. In 1916 the neighboring so-called Wettinhöhe Castle was added to the convalescent home and remained with this service provider until the 1930s.

The next expansion for men started in 1926, the design and execution came from Georg Max Pötzschke from Dresden, who was otherwise more active in Trachau and Laubegast. After the building permit from November 1926, supplements up to and including 1928 were submitted. As a result of the extensions, the bed capacity was 150 places for men and 110 places for women.

In 1931 the convalescent homes were connected to the Lindenhof sanatorium for lung diseases in neighboring Coswig , and in World War II they were used again as a hospital. The city hospital moved there immediately after the Second World War, and in 1947 the facility became the “Lößnitzhöhe” tuberculosis sanctuary , which later became the “Lößnitzhöhe” nursing home of the same name . Between 1967 and 1992, as a district nursing home, it offered 240 accommodation places.

After the fall of the Wall, the nursing home was handed over to the workers' welfare organization in 1993. The unsustainable structural conditions caused the facility to be closed after a short time. The planned conversion into a clinic with a sanatorium in the 1990s did not materialize.

After the sale to a private investor, the ensemble of buildings in the middle of the forest was renovated and converted into residential complexes in the 2000s. In 2003 the former women's convalescent home and in 2005 the men's convalescent home were opened for living. During this time, more precisely in 2004, the memory of the old hallway name was recorded by renaming a stretch of road in front of the historic buildings of the women's home in Alt-Wettinshöhe .

Men's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe"

State 1903
Former district nursing home Lößnitzhöhe (left the listed Auerweg 1a). In the foreground on the right is the older, heavily modified two-storey building

The men's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe" , referred to in the list of monuments as the former Lößnitzhöhe district nursing home, is a former nursing home with a ward, located at Auerweg 1 in the Zitzschewig district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . The building ensemble has been converted into a residential complex with around 40 apartments with around 3 hectares of surrounding landscape since 2005.

The Auerweg 1a building is a listed building; This is the building from 1926/28 on the left on the photo opposite. This is connected to the heavily modified older two-storey building on the right by a bridge-like connecting structure at the bottom with a segmented arch passage.

At the left end of the longitudinal front, which is roughly to the south-east, the extension is angled at right angles to the rear, resulting in an L-shaped floor plan and, together with the old building on the right, a courtyard facing north. The building, which is also two-story, stands on a quarry-stone plinth; on top there is a slate hipped roof . The plastered facades are structured by profiled headband and sill cornices, the windows sit in concrete frames. In addition, ornamentation in the Art Deco style is used in selected places .

On the back there is a protruding entrance risalit, the central staircase has a triangular gable in the roof. In front of the south-eastern main view is a single-storey, two-axis deep hall porch with pilaster strips and with exits on top for the upper floors. In this view, the roof has a five-axis dwarf house with a high triangular gable up to the roof ridge and a round window. A small, square roof turret with a curved tip sits on the resulting cross ridge .

Women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe"

As it was in 1903, on the right the core building of the personnel building
Alt-Wettinshöhe 1: Former Women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe", staff dormitory and boiler house
Women's convalescent home 1917 with an extension
Alt-Wettinshöhe 2: Former Women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe", Kurhaus

The women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe" is a former sanatorium for women, located in the Zitzschewig district of the Saxon city of Radebeul . Immediately after the Second World War, the facility used as a city hospital at the time was located at Krapenbergweg 3. The former staff dormitory and boiler house as well as the old spa building are listed. The Alt-Wettinshöhe 3 extension from shortly after 1900, which was connected to the right of the old spa building with a connecting structure, was not, however. The ensemble has been converted into a residential complex since 2003.

The former staff dormitory and boiler house at today's address Alt-Wettinshöhe 1 is on the left and thus in the southeast of the ensemble that runs to the northwest. The narrow side of the two-storey building faces the street. Overall, it has an asymmetrical dumbbell-shaped floor plan: the side projections protrude only slightly at the rear, but very strongly towards the street, giving the impression of a head building. In this on the ground floor there are segment-arched gates, doors and windows of different sizes. The lower-looking upper floor above shows half-timbered houses. A flat hipped roof sits on top. In the middle of the barbell facing the courtyard, a massive risalit emerges, which is crowned by a four-sided, curved hood with ball, point and weather vane. The plastered building is structured by corner blocks and cornices.

The old spa building at Alt-Wettinshöhe 2 stands in the middle of the ensemble running to the northwest, with the long side facing the street. On both sides there are side projections with gable roof rafter gables on both the front and the back. The two-storey plastered building stands on a quarry stone base and has a stepped, flattened hipped roof that overhangs. While the other windows are rectangular, the gables show twin arched windows. In front of the rear of the street view is a veranda with an outside staircase to the front garden. The plastered building is structured by corner blocks and cornices.

Alt-Wettinshöhe

The Alt-Wettinshöhe is an inner-city street in Radebeul-Zitzschewig . The approximately 170 meter long street forms the access to the residential complex, which was created from the former women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe" .

It begins in the southeast at the intersection with the streets Lößnitzhöhe and Krapenbergweg and runs to the convergence of Am Zechstein, Am Krapenbergweg, Waldwiesenweg and Am Gasthof. Alt-Wettinshöhe is a former section of the Krapenbergweg.

The street, dedicated in 2004, is named after the Wettinshöhe , in whose northern forest areas the convalescent homes of the General Local Health Insurance Fund for Dresden were built at the end of the 19th century.

literature

Web links

Men's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe"
Commons : Kreispflegeheim Lößnitzhöhe  - collection of pictures
Women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe"
Commons : Women's convalescent home "Alt-Wettinhöhe"  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Liselotte Closer (Erarb.): Radebeul - City guide through past and present . 1st supplemented edition. Edition Reintzsch, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-930846-05-4 , pp. 145-147 .
  3. ^ A b c Liselotte Closer : Radebeul in old views. Volume 2. European Library, Zaltbommel / Netherlands 2002, ISBN 978-90-288-6693-5 .
  4. ^ Manfred Richter: Zitzschewig community. In: Niederlößnitz from yesteryear. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  5. ↑ On the betting height is built. In: saechsische.de of August 11, 2004.
  6. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 6 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the district of Meißen since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  7. ↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 49-50 .
  8. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 5 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).