Burenhaus (Dresden)
The Burenhaus was a residential building at Silbermannstraße 22 in Dresden , which was built in 1901 on behalf of the Buren based on a design by the architect Karl Emil Scherz . It was destroyed in 1945.
background
In the period of the Boer Wars, from 1880 to 1881 and 1899 to 1902 , the White Africans could not be defeated or subjugated by the English, despite their great superiority. Some sought protection in former German colonies and thus came to the German Empire by sea . During this period from 1880 onwards, Boer war refugees were accepted into Germany . The Kingdom of Saxony also incorporated these people into the state. About 100 people came to Dresden and settled in the Johannstadt district . Around 1890, the Boers commissioned the architect Karl Emil Scherz to build a house. He had a five-storey residential building with a basement built with a ground floor and three upper floors as well as a converted attic. For this purpose, a plot of land in Johannstadt at Silbermannstrasse 22 was acquired. The property is located between Striesener and Gerokstrasse on Zöllnerstrasse.
Boer house
The foundation stone was laid in May 1900 and the building was inaugurated and occupied on July 25, 1901. At the same time, the monument of the Transvaal President Ohm Paul Krüger was unveiled. The house was a sandstone brick building with a plastered facade. On the ground floor there were arched windows, otherwise rectangular ones. All the windows were provided with sandstone bezels. The shutters were colored in the national colors of blue-white-red. The staircase was covered with ceramic tiles and had a richly decorated wrought iron railing throughout. In the living rooms there was a paneled wood paneling up to the parapet height. The stairwell and the wet area (bathroom, toilet and kitchen) were arranged on the courtyard side. Every apartment had running water in the kitchen, bathroom and toilets. The ceilings were decorated with ornamental stucco throats and rosettes. All apartments were centrally heated and had gas and electricity connections.
The street front was divided into five window axes, the ground floor 2 by 4 windows and the house entrance in the middle. Above the entrance there was a 2.30 m high figure made of sandstone under a canopy, representing the Transvaal President Ohm Krüger, above this two head portraits were framed in a wreath, in medallion portraits the generals Christiaan de Wet and Louis Botha were depicted. In between, the saying High Transvaal and freedom for the Boer people was carved in sandstone. From the first to the third storey there were cantilevered balconies on the 2nd and 3rd windows. The converted attic had two double mansards and one single mansard to the right and left. There was a standing skylight in baroque form above the balcony axes. The roof was covered with slate shingles from the Ore Mountains .
Whereabouts
The people of Dresden affectionately called the building Burenhaus because of the decorated facade. In the beginning around 80 Boers lived in this house, later adjoining buildings were additionally acquired (Silbermannstrasse 24 and 26). The Boers stayed in Dresden until the outbreak of World War I , in 1914 most of them left Dresden and joined England. The few Boers remaining in Dresden left the city around 1936. The buildings were sold and continued to be used as residential buildings.
During the bombing of Dresden at the end of the Second World War on February 13, 1945, the district sank to rubble and ashes within 22 minutes, as did the Boer houses in Silbermannstrasse. Today there are new houses built in the 1960s in brick-block construction from the remains of rubble.
literature
- Paul Brockmüller: The new Burenhaus in Dresden. In: The Week , July 25, 1901.
- Kruger Monument in Dresden. In: Dresden Latest News , July 25, 1901.
- Kruger Monument Dresden. In: Dresdner Anzeiger , Volume 171, July 27, 1901.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Brockmüller: The new Burenhaus in Dresden. In: The Week , July 25, 1901.
- ^ Paul Brockmüller: The new Kruger monument in Dresden. In: The Week , July 25, 1901.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 55.4 ″ E