Beyer building

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Beyer building of the TU Dresden.
The Beyer building on one of three postage stamps with Dresden motifs from 1956 on the occasion of the city's 750th anniversary
Beyer building, main entrance hall. Exposed concrete.

The Beyer building of the Technical University of Dresden was built by Martin Dülfer from 1910 to 1913 for the civil engineering department of the TH Dresden . The listed building group still houses the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Institute for Applied Photophysics in the field of physics and the professorship for astronomy in the field of geosciences. The 40-meter-high storm observatory is a striking feature of the cityscape.

history

Today's Beyer building was opened on October 11, 1913 - in the presence of the Saxon King Friedrich August III. - handed over to its destination. It was realized by him as a building for a “university town” planned by Dülfer, the concept was followed by the Fritz Foerster Building from 1917–1926 , otherwise the concept developed by Dülfer remained unrealized. The unfinished facade of the south-east elevation also shows that Dülfer's further plans for a central building on Fritz-Foerster-Platz were not implemented either.

The non-university official building opposite and the Beyer building are the only two remaining pre-war buildings on Fritz-Foerster-Platz. Although the attic burned out due to the effects of the war and thus all wooden components of the roof structure and the cladding of the observatory tower were lost, only minor changes were made in the post-war years, so that the structure of the building is largely preserved in its original form.

The building was named in 1952 after the civil engineer and university professor Kurt Beyer .

The building complex Template: future / in 5 yearshas been refurbished since autumn 2016; on an interim basis, the faculties and institutes are mainly housed in the August-Bebel-Straße 30 building.

building

Beyer building from the south

Dülfer did not orientate himself on the style elements that dominated Dresden at the time, but orientated himself on more north German building traditions. Red brick, hipped roofs, flat bay windows, narrow windows with narrow pillars are typical, on the other hand there are also a few Art Nouveau elements. "The aesthetics of the building material" and the "material justice" "demonstrate a new form and material acquisition that was Dülfer's own". So Dülfer had joined the Dresden reform movement and became a member of the guild .

The building complex consists of an eastern main block that encloses two inner courtyards, a narrow wing structure and a tower, which on the one hand belongs to "the first high-rise buildings in Germany" and is one of the landmarks of the Technical University of Dresden, on the other hand, designed as an observatory, still as such can be used today.

The red brick facades are a special architectural element . In doing so, Dülfer oriented himself on the one hand on the older buildings erected by Karl Weißbach , on the other hand on North German models: The hipped roofs and slightly arched flat bay windows are influenced by the north German country house building . The brick facade is " ornament like before kragende brick and colored aggregate sandstone - and exposed concrete surfaces " structured differently.

Dülfer structured the staggered tower of the Lohrmann Observatory on an octagonal base, which ends at a glass rondel with a dome above it, through many high windows that alternate with pilaster strips . On the one hand, he wanted to emphasize the verticality, on the other hand, to create an impression of monumentality. After the war, the burnt-out tower was designed by Karl Wilhelm Ochs with a glass brick facade and light-colored plaster, which was later replaced in the upper part by a thermal pane facade that is still present today.

literature

  • Holger Gantz: 100 buildings in Dresden. A guide to buildings of historical and architectural importance . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1111-4 .
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 .
  • George-Bähr-Forum: Yearbook 2007. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2007, ISBN 978-3-940319-25-8
  • Christian Bahr: Architecture guide - the 100 most important Dresden buildings. Jaron, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-89773-920-8 , pp. 136-137.

Web links

Commons : Beyer-Bau, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gantz, pp. 69f., No. 71.
  2. ↑ a b c Lupfer et al., P. 70 (object no. 98, Beyer-Bau of the Technical University).
  3. ↑ George-Bähr-Forum, p. 127.
  4. ↑ George-Bähr-Forum, pp. 150f.
  5. ↑ Ingolf Pleil: The TU Dresden is planning considerable investments. In: Dresdner Latest News . February 22, 2019, accessed April 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b c Bahr, p. 136.
  7. ^ Huebner et al.
  8. ↑ Hübner et al., Pp. 10-11.
  9. ↑ Hübner et al., P. 20.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 46"  E