Altmarkt 21–25 / Seestrasse 2–16

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Building complex Altmarkt 13-25 (as of August 2011)

The building complex Altmarkt 21-25 / Seestrasse 2-16 , originally Altmarkt 13-25, with the former department store "Centrum" and the Café Prag forms the west side of the Altmarkt and Seestrasse in Dresden . The complex was built in the 1950s.

history

Condition during the construction phase (1954)
Otto Grotewohl speaks at the inauguration of the newly built Altmarkt in front of Altmarkt 13–25 (1954)
The building complex after completion (1958), in the background on the right the residential palace that was destroyed in the war
The Same Perspective 30 Years Later (1988)

On September 26, 1952, an architectural competition to redesign the old market was announced. It was specified that the square should be enlarged to 20,000 square meters. On November 20, 1952, the jury decided in favor of the design by Herbert Schneider , who was commissioned with Johannes Rascher to create a joint, revised design. The State Office for the Preservation of Monuments raised an objection to the Altmarkt competition and said that the height of the main cornice on the Altmarkt, also known as the “Festival Hall of the City of Dresden” , was originally 18 meters and should not exceed 21 meters. In the revised design by Schneider and Rascher, the ridge height was 33 meters; the old market floor plan was enlarged. Walter Ulbricht laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the old market on May 31, 1953. A plaque commemorates this event. According to Walter Ulbricht, the plans by the architects Schneider and Rascher bear witness to the fact that "it is possible to integrate the historical monuments into the new buildings so that the overall composition of Dresden will secure its old fame as a city of art" .

description

The building complex Altmarkt No. 13-25 was built from 1953 to 1958 according to designs by the architects Rascher, Gerhard Guder and Gerhard Müller. The building complex is seven storeys high and represents the western front of the Altmarkt square. Shops are housed in the one and two storey arcade buildings. In accordance with the cultural program of that time, the building was built in 1951 in accordance with the “16 principles of urban development” in an architectural style that continued the “national cultural heritage” . The result was the reconstruction of the old market in 1953 in the style of socialist classicism , which historically cites the Dresden Baroque . The "more spacious, palatial composed west side" of the same are described by Jürgen Paul as the "urban development and at least the most aesthetically effective development of the new inner city".

literature

  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Jürgen Paul: Dresden - the city and its architecture . In: Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (Hrsg.): Architekturführer Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden - Loss of historical building fabric after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-047-2 .
  • Johannes Rascher: Dresden-Altmarkt, west side. In: German architecture. Issue 3, year 1954, p. 132f.

Web links

Commons : Altmarkt 13–25  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lerm, pp. 103-104.
  2. ↑ Lerm, p. 105.
  3. ↑ Lerm, p. 107.
  4. ↑ Lerm, p. 110.
  5. ↑ Lerm, pp. 108-109.
  6. ↑ May et al., P. 23, image no. 7 (Altmarkt west side no. 13-25, 1953/58 according to plans by Arch. J. Rascher, G. Guder, G. Müller and collective).
  7. ^ Paul, XXV.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0.5 "  N , 13 ° 44' 12.8"  E