Old Loschwitz Fire Station
The old fire station Loschwitz is a historic fire station and is used today as a socio-cultural center.
The building is located near the Elbe in the Loschwitz district of Dresden .
history
The first syringe house with ladder scaffolding in Loschwitz was built in 1775 on the basis of an electoral ordinance at the entrance to Grundstraße. It consisted of a small house for the fire truck and the equipment.
A new syringe house was built next to the Hentschelmühle in 1859 . Today the Ludwig Richter memorial is located there. There were two manual pressure syringes and a hose trolley in the depot . In 1883 the first syringe house was demolished and a new building was erected at the same place - on the former Ratskeller. In 1891 a riser tower was installed to dry the hoses at the gym at Pillnitzer Landstrasse 16.
In connection with the construction of the Blue Wonder , the Loschwitz village center was completely redesigned. As a result, the current Wilhelminian style houses were built on Körnerplatz. The growth of the village and the advancement of technology finally made a larger modern fire station necessary, and so shortly after the construction of the Schiller School in 1908, the same architect Georg Schramm built what is now the old Loschwitz fire station . It consisted of the vehicle hall, equipment rooms, the riser and hose tower and apartments.
Despite the integration of Loschwitz into the city of Dresden in 1921, the volunteer fire brigade remained . In 1945 the church and school burned down in Loschwitz while the fire engine and equipment were in use in downtown Dresden. By the end of the war, vehicles and equipment were practically completely destroyed and the Loschwitz volunteer fire brigade ceased operations.
Now the professional fire brigade from the Schlüterstrasse guard took over the operations in Loschwitz, partly supported by the Bühlau and Niederpoyritz volunteer fire brigades. The sheds were used by various institutions and some rooms were converted into further apartments.
When Loschwitz artists and art students occupied the old fire station in 1991, they found civil defense equipment in the depot. These things were properly outsourced, a prerequisite for the creative misappropriation of the house for an art and cultural association .
Todays use
Art and culture association
In February 1991 local artists and graduates of the Dresden Art School founded the association Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz eV around the artist Gudrun Oltmanns
In the traditional art and culture district, various art forms and projects are realized, socio-cultural work is carried out and cultural education is offered for all age groups. There are weekly events for young people and adults as well as monthly children's events.
There are 25 courses in different artistic areas for all ages.
The association is a member of the Landesverband Soziokultur Sachsen eV and is supported by the Office for Culture and Monument Protection of the State Capital Dresden.
Club meeting "Trille"
An event room for 30 to 60 people is named after the Loschwitzbach (popularly "Trille") that runs under the building. Initiatives, associations and private individuals can rent the space.
gallery
Since the association was founded in 1991, the former fire station depots have been used as gallery spaces. Continuous exhibitions of contemporary art of various genres are held here. Every year there is an exhibition with artists from a partner city of the state capital Dresden.
Artist house
Since 2004 the association has offered artists from abroad the opportunity to work. The association is a member of the Association of Saxon Artists' Houses. V. and provides interested national and international artists with a guest room with an attached guest studio. The property exists independently of the nearby Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz .
Castle Hill
Not far from the location of the old Loschwitz fire station is the Loschwitz castle hill, which has been recultivated by the club's members since 2004.
Until its destruction in World War II, the sophisticated "Restaurant and Hotel Burgberg" was located on the site, the remains of which were leveled in 1967. Since then, the site has been fallow and overgrown. An ensemble of wall remnants, iron columns, trees and ivy was created, which give the place a wild, wildly romantic character.
Club members living next door came up with the idea of revitalizing this derelict place, which offers a view of the Elbe Valley , with art and cultural projects.
On the basis of a usage agreement with the owners of the private property, especially young members of the association have been working continuously since 2004 in conjunction with ALG2 workers on the partial clearing of the wild vegetation, the recovery of building blocks and found objects, the securing of the site, the construction of sidewalks and on partial fencing. Rights of use for access roads could be obtained from neighboring owners, in particular from the Dresden transport company .
The first expansion phase was supported with funds from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the event office for the 800th anniversary of the city of Dresden. In this context, necessary security measures and first artistic contributions in the form of sculptures, sculptures, objects and installations were implemented.
After two years of intensive preparations, the Burgberg site in Dresden-Loschwitz was officially opened on June 10, 2006. It is open to the public on selected dates. On the site you can see the progress of the gentle recultivation and have a good view of the Elbe and the Blue Wonder .
The project has been funded by the Federal Cultural Foundation since 2007 .
architecture
The building was constructed in 1908 by the architect Prof. Schramm as a successor to the Dresden Erlwein buildings. The building is a typical representative of the economical Dresden Art Nouveau and, with its pronounced mansard roof, shutters and the originally existing trellis, points to the garden city movement of Hellerau . The building is divided into a longitudinal wing parallel to Fidelio-F.-Finke-Straße, a south-eastern transverse wing and the hose tower on the south side, which marks the building in the silhouette of the Elbe from afar.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entrance Burgberg Plattleite 4 a
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11 " N , 13 ° 48 ′ 52" E