Boxberg's Palais

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Palais Boxberg, main facade with side view
Central Risalit
Ceiling painting by AF Oeser
Garden room
vestibule

The Boxberg'sche Palais was a palace on the south side of Dresden Waisenhausstrasse between Prager Strasse and Trompeterstrasse in the Seevorstadt district . It was built in 1752 and demolished in 1899. The building was probably designed by Julius Heinrich Schwarze ; Adam Friedrich Oeser and later Johann Gottfried Panse contributed to the interior decoration .

history

Johann Christian Hasche describes the building as Neumann's house . Due to its building costs, it had plunged the builder into misery and was "almost always" the apartment of the Russian ambassador and was inhabited by Prince Beloselsky. According to Hasche, the house belonged to the Jew Wolf Benjamin Eibeschütz , son of Jonathan Eybeschütz , who carried the title of Baron von Adlersthal. It had the garden decorated with statues, grottos, fountains and a pond. In 1799 the address was: "Festungsgraben, Sth.Vst. 417, Freiherr von Adlersthal". 1840 is mentioned as the owner of the House of Justice Ferdinand August Meißner . In 1865 August Adolph von Berlepsch lived in the house, who died in 1867.

description

The facade was divided into eleven axes. The two upper floors rose above the basement. Pilasters were placed in front of the central five axes. The three middle windows were oval bulging and had stitch caps at the end. A roof house with a curved and curved gable rose above it. A vase flanked by putti was both decoration and crowning the gable.

The "important decorative" facade decoration between the upper floors consisted of the reliefs of Roman warriors on medallions, framed by open laurel wreaths. In the rich wrought-iron rococo grille was a Caesar's head framed by a bead on an oval medallion.

At the back of the palace was a garden room with allegorical representations by Adam Friedrich Oeser under the ceiling that were “still completely in the forms of Baroque painting” . The work, created before 1756, consisted of three frescoes, the fields of which were connected to one another by clouds. The art historian Cornelius Gurlitt describes the ensemble as follows: "Flying groups and individual figures of the most lively movement from an architecture that is kept gray on gray and leaves a view of the air."

The walls of the garden room, which were rounded at the rear corners, were structured by an Ionic order of pilasters. In the niches stood pedestals with vases in front of which children were playing; the material was plaster of paris. There were medallions next to the doors and in front of the inter-columns on the window side. The wall was decorated with oil paintings. In the middle was a chimney made of porcelain, "in late Rococo forms of rich development [...] The stucco decoration showed a mixture of Rococo forms and those of an antique style". The stucco reliefs above the pictures and the windows on the garden side showed flowers hanging on sticks, as well as emblems of hunting and horticulture, ribbon bows, palm leaves and foliage threads.

According to the art historian Fritz Löffler, the garden hall was changed in an early classicist style during the renovation after 1780 by Johann Gottfried Panse.

Art historical significance

Fritz Löffler attributes the building to the rococo architect from Dresden - “by an unknown architect, perhaps JH Schwarze, built in rococo forms”. Löffler notices the oval bulging shape of the central risalite as a stylistic feature of black, which can be recognized in his most important buildings:

“The quality of the building allows only a first architect to come into question. We'd like to attribute it to black people who stylistically come closest to it. […] The Palais […] repeated with its bulging three-storey, three-axis central projection and the culminating, curved gable a shape that Schwarze with the garden front of the Palais Mosczynska had introduced into the rococo architecture of Dresden and that in Hubertusburg and in the facade plan for Friedrichsstadt from 1745 returned. "

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 120, 249, 272, 273, 393, 431 .
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, pp. 565–569 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , 1903, p. 565: “The building, which according to Hasche (vol. I, p. 422) was mostly inhabited by the Russian legation, in 1783 belonged to the Jews Eibeschütz, who called himself Baron von Adlerstahl ” .
  2. ↑ Johann Christian Hasche:

    “ Naumann's house, behind the Seethore , a very delicate stone building, built in 1750 in the Italian style, adorned with good sculptural work. With its immeasurable cost it brought its builder into misery. It's almost always the soot's apartment. Having been sent, the present Prince Beloselsky Pass. Also live there. It has an excellent garden, which its current owner Jude Eibeschütz has decorated in a splendid way and adorned with statues, grottos, fountains, a pond and summer palaces. [...] It is eleven windows long, but five of them wander forward into the round as a double lead. The central protrusion of this has three windows, where at the height of the Gurtsimmses a beautiful free exit resting on consoles protrudes, under which the gateway goes in. "

    - Johann Christian Hasche : "Complicated description of Dresden with all its external and internal peculiarities historically and architecturally", Volume 1, Leipzig 1781, pp. 421-423
  3. ↑ Dresden for the useful knowledge of its houses and their residents 1799, page 54, online
  4. ^ Justizrat Meißner is registered as the owner in the address book from 1840 (Häuserbuch, p. 26).
  5. ↑ a b Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . S. 272 (object no. 337 Das Palais Boxberg, Waisenhausstraße 33 ).
  6. ^ Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . S. 272 f . (Object no. 338 The Boxberg Palace, detail from the central projectile. ).
  7. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , 1903, p. 566.
  8. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , 1903, p. 566.
  9. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony , 1903, p. 567.
  10. ↑ a b Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . S. 249 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 48.2 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 10.3"  E