Bürgerwiese

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Pond with fountain

The approximately ten hectare Bürgerwiese is a landscape garden in Dresden . The size of the Bürgerwiese, located southeast of the old town center , is 850 meters long and 80 to 100 meters wide. It is the oldest park in Dresden.

location

The Bürgerwiese in 1706. The map is south , so the buildings on Halben Gasse are at the top of the Bürgerwiese. To the right of the meadow is the Jewish pond .

The Bürgerwiese extends along the north-eastern edge of the street, also known as Bürgerwiese , and its continuation out of town, Parkstraße. It lies on the border between the Seevorstadt and the Pirnaische Vorstadt . The elongated green area extends between Georgplatz and Lennéplatz from northwest to southeast. Together with the Großer Garten to the east and the Blüherpark directly adjacent to the north , the Bürgerwiese forms a large, contiguous inner-city park in Dresden.

history

Venus, Cupid clipping their wings from 1886

The green areas are in the Seegraben , the channel of the old Elbe from Seidnitz to the old town, through which the Kaitzbach flows. They were used as meadow and pasture land. In 1458 the green areas were first mentioned as a community meadow . Paths ran along both long sides. For example, Dohnaische Gasse on the north side of the meadow and Halbe Gasse on the south side.

Since the beginning of the 19th century, what had been rural and suburban development was replaced by upper-class residential buildings. On the site of the level of the Dohna's shock adjacent to the Bürgerwiese gardens of the Palais Moszyńska for example, the French professor at the Dresden began Kadettenanstalt Frederic de Villers (1770-1846) using the young architect Woldemar Hermann with the construction activity. He also sold plots of his huge inherited property and is considered to be one of the triggers of the building boom in what will later become the English Quarter south of the Bürgerwiese. Several representative residential buildings were built along the Bürgerwiese around 1840, such as the de Villers apartment building and the Seebach House, which was also built on the edge of the former palace garden . In addition, members of the government and prominent members of the nobility, such as Princess Pückler, lived here in the corner house on Lüttichaustrasse .

This also created the need for an appropriate design of the system. As early as 1835, several well-off residents, including Frédéric de Villers and the royal personal physician Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig , complained about their complete isolation from the city, also about the wall, which had existed since 1714, which gave the meadow the appearance of an animal kennel. In 1838 the Dresden city council decided to fill the lower inner Bürgerwiese with building rubble and to convert it into a public park according to plans by court gardener Carl Adolph Terscheck . The design of the Inner Bürgerwiese up to the Dohnaschen Schlag was finished in 1850.

The expansion of the facility on the Äußere Bürgerwiese outside the Dohnaschen Schlage up to the Great Garden began a few years later. At the request of the City Council, Peter Joseph Lenné came to Dresden for a few days in 1859 and presented his design for the construction of the public facilities and a zoological garden on the grounds of the Bürgerwiese up to the Great Garden. The Bürgerwiese was the first urban park to be completed in 1869.

Sculptures

Mozart fountain

Numerous large sculptures can be seen in the Bürgerwiese.

The Mozart Fountain , created in 1907 by the Berlin sculptor Hermann Hosaeus , shows three gilded bronze figures. These represent the three graces grace , serenity and seriousness dancing around a Mozart memorial stone. The fountain was partially destroyed and removed in 1945. Gerhard Wolf completed a reconstruction of this monument in 1991.

The neoclassical marble group Venus cuts Cupid's wings is a work by Theodor Heinrich Bäumer from 1886. In 1908, Bruno Fischer and Wilhelm Kreis created the three-meter-high nymph fountain. Kreis created the eight-meter-wide basin and the water-spouting granite mask; Fischer the white marble nymph rising from the bath. The Otto-Ludwig - Herme by Arnold Kramer from 1901, which shows the Dresden local poet, is also made of this material .

Two mothers

The bronze sculpture Two Mothers by Professor Heinrich Epler is one of the other groups of figures . It was created between 1899 and 1902 and depicts a human mother and a tiger mother rescuing her children from the floods.

literature

  • Folke Stimmel u. A .: Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
  • Art in public space , information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996

Web links

Commons : Bürgerwiese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heidrun Laudel: Architecture and Construction. in: Reiner Gross and Uwe John: History of the City of Dresden, Vol. 2: From the end of the Thirty Years War to the founding of an empire . Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1927-3 , p. 648. Also an illustration in the same volume, p. 649.
  2. ^ Thomas Wieczorek: The villa district on the Bürgerwiese. In: Ronald Franke, Heidrun Laudel (Ed.): Building in Dresden in the 19th and 20th centuries. Edition Sandstein, Dresden 1991, p. 25f.
  3. ^ Sylvia Butenschön: History of the Dresden city green. Universitätsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7983-2035-2 , pp. 140 f. (also dissertation TU Berlin 2006)
  4. ^ Sylvia Butenschön: History of the Dresden city green. Universitätsverlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7983-2035-2 , p. 143 ff. (Also dissertation, TU Berlin 2006).

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 32 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 35"  E