Alvslebenplatz

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View from the western end of Alvslebenplatz to the north on the two groups of figures by Ernst March at the beginning of the former Sophienstrasse , on the right the Sophienhof with its tower overlooking the square

The Alvslebenplatz is a square in the Saxon city of Radebeul , at the meeting point of the districts of Oberlößnitz in the north, Alt-Radebeul in the southeast and Serkowitz in the southwest. The Nizzastrasse coming from the west meets Maxim-Gorki-Strasse, which runs from west-southwest to east-northeast . The former border road (between Radebeul and Serkowitz), now part of Eduard-Bilz-Straße, meets the top of the meeting point when coming from about the south. About 30 meters further west, the former Sophienstrasse , which today also belongs to Eduard-Bilz-Strasse, branches off from Nizzastrasse in an approximately northward direction . Its extension to the south to Maxim-Gorki-Straße completes a street triangle that today forms a traffic area and only leaves a small triangular open space with space for a tree. On the western end of the triangle there are three more trees as a green area. The square is named after the opera singer Melitta Otto-Alvsleben (1842-1893).

history

View from the western end of Alvslebenplatz to the north of the two groups of figures by Ernst March at the beginning of the former Sophienstrasse , hand-colored postcard from around 1910

The local builder Moritz Ziller was the founding chairman of the Beautification Association for the Loessnitz, founded in 1880, and responsible for the public greenery in the division of labor between the two Ziller brothers . Ziller and the Beautification Association had taken on the "graceful" square and "provided it with pretty bushes and two benches". The association also took care of the naming Alvslebenplatz . The opera singer ("Friedrichstädter Nachtigall"), who died in 1893, spent her summers in Oberlößnitz, where she had an apartment (probably Eduard-Bilz-Straße 19). This honor was given by the Beautification Association because it helped it to generate financial income for its charitable activities by participating in numerous benefit concerts .

After the initial design of the green spaces, no one felt responsible for the maintenance. Moritz Ziller had died and the place was exactly on the boundaries of three independent communities. On November 30, 1895, the Radebeuler Wochenblatt published a letter to the editor on the so-called Otto Alvsleben-Platz , denouncing the abuse as a “ wild garbage dump ” and describing its “otherwise neglected appearance”, which “can be described as downright scandalous”.

In 1966 the name of the square was officially deleted from the street directory at that time, but is still in use.

The most striking decoration of the largely asphalted square are the two groups of figures of the so-called garland - winding Bacchantes standing on high pedestals at the entrance to the former Sophienstrasse . The bacchants were obtained from the building company "Gebrüder Ziller" in 1885 from the Charlottenburg pottery factory Ernst March and served as an entrance decoration to Sophienstrasse, which was opened up by the master builders from 1877 onwards. The listed groups of figures were restored in 2008–2010 and the pedestals repaired. The city then set up a bench at the foot of the eastern figures.

literature

  • Alvslebenplatz. In: Gudrun Täubert; Frank Andert: jewelry places in Radebeul; yesterday and today . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2010, p. 10-13 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beautification association for the Lößnitz and surroundings (ed.): The Lößnitz near Dresden and its surroundings. Historically, topographically and touristically portrayed by Moritz Lilie . 2nd edition, Dresden undated (1892), p. 50.
  2. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 6 .
  3. ↑ according to civil status documents from the Radebeul city archive from August 4, 2010
  4. ↑ a b Gudrun Täubert; Frank Andert: jewelry places in Radebeul; yesterday and today . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2010, p. 10 .
  5. ↑ 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. 102 .
  6. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 14 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 17.3 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 37.5"  E